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In Gmail/Google Apps I can easily find messages either based on their properties (like FROM:/ TO:/ keywords) or based on one or more tags. Now I have a large number of messages and I know that there must be some messages that have not been tagged at all. Is there a way of listing these messages so I can tag them?
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Unfortunately if you check Using advanced search you will see under label it says
One possibility to find them would be to do the following:
Of course if you have a huge number of mails this could take a while but since you said you have hundreds of labels searching by excluding is probably impossible. | |||
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Only way I know of is to do a search like But if you have a lot of labels that would really be a pain in the butt. Edit: I found this Greasemonkey script which looks like it would work. There are some more options on this page. | |||||
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This happens a lot if you use google exchange sync to get gMail on your iPhone. If you use the iPhone Mail app to delete a message, it actually just removes the Inbox tag, but doesn't move the message to the bin. It is still visible in All Items. If you want to actually delete the messages, you need to find them first. I followed the above links, and installed this greasemonkey script (into firefox). I also had to disable the Better GMail firefox add-on to get the script to work. I then had a new link on the left in gMail - 'Unlabelled'. This opened a search for all messages not tagged with any of my labels. I had to edit this search to remove mails in my Inbox - I added '-label:Inbox' to the end of the search box. Finally I noticed that some mails picked up in this search were actually tagged after all. This happens if you use your iPhone to delete a single message from a conversation - gMail finds the single message matching the search, but brings the whole converstaion into the results. To get round this I ran the modified Unlabelled search, then selected all messages and tagged them 'Untagged'. I then pasted the search string into a text editor and replaced '-label:' with 'OR label:'. I removed the leading OR and wrapped the whole lot in brackets, then tailed it with label:Untagged. This search finds everything tagged with any label, and with Untagged - remove the Untagged label from anything in this search. Finally delete everything matching the Untagged label. It's easier than it sounds! Original Unlabelled search-string Modified to remove messages in the Inbox - tag everything matching this search 'Untagged' After Find/Replace to find anything with a label AND the Untagged label - remove Untagged label from any matches Finally, delete everything matching this search | |||
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