Gmail mystery

woodbutcher

Well-known Member
I opened our gmail account today to find an empty inbox. Three years worth of emails, at least 750, were gone. Good riddance to most of them, but there were some I would like to have kept. There is a warning on the screen that after 30 days emails will be deleted, but at least fifty of these were less than 30 days old. Has anybody heard of a limit on the number you can accumulate? All the other files are intact.
Butch
 
I recently had a similar issue with MighGoSoft Outlook.

Dunno what happened, but they are FREE services, and sometimes you get what you (don't) pay for.

What'cha gonna do, demand your money back?
 
(quoted from post at 20:00:42 09/11/16) There is a warning on the screen that after 30 days emails will be deleted,
Butch
I have email in the Gmail inbox dating back to 2009. There may be some older in one of my folders. There is a limit on how many gigabytes you can have.
 
You could be using a local e-mail client on your computer to download & manage your e-mails.
Back up your machine frequently.

Read up on POP & IMAP mail.

Don't let someone else manage your data!
 
Thanks for all replies. The sad thing about this is that some of those emails we lost were pics of grandkids. I had moved them into files and assumed they were protected, but when the tagged message disappeared from the inbox, it disappeared from the folder, too.
Butch
 
Must be something with Google. I have no choice but use GMail at work, and I come in this morning and everything is different. Fonts are different, the way I access is diferent, although thats probably not Google on my end, even Chrome is different as in smaller fonts, and different fonts now.
 
Yes I do! For some odd reason, IT has to send out 10 or so emails on changes being made, and we didnt get a single one about any changes. If this company would quit worrying about making things easier on the big wheels, and focus more on the little guys, they wouldnt be laying off people who have been with the company for years, and hiring temps and contractors, they could make money!
 
(quoted from post at 11:01:47 09/12/16) I got a new lap top last Apr. E-mails don't keep on it like the old one.
I use thunderbird email client and have never had a problem with archiving emails. and it works with gmail.
 
(quoted from post at 07:13:19 09/12/16) Thanks for all replies. The sad thing about this is that some of those emails we lost were pics of grandkids. I had moved them into files and assumed they were protected, but when the tagged message disappeared from the inbox, it disappeared from the folder, too.
Butch

I use Google drive to back up photos, emails, and documents, but you have to be careful when you drag things to Google drive. If you just click and drag you will put a LINK to your object on the Google drive, not a copy. With a link there is only one object so if it gets removed or lost the link will not work either. You want to make sure you are backing up copies, not links!
 
I've heard discussions and I've read about how you're supposed to drag something on your computer, but I don't know if I'm doing that. Sometimes I copy something to move
it, but that's not the same as dragging, is it?
Butch
 

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