Gmail tips, tricks and questions

[World Tech]

Interesting. Most of these are advertised as recipient not being in the know. Thanks for your responses.

i think all of them are working by inserting a 1x1 pixel, so technically its impossible to see, but of course it can be detected

[Elikip]

i think all of them are working by inserting a 1x1 pixel, so technically its impossible to see, but of course it can be detected

Thanks for the explanation. I've used one in the past (don't recall the name of the service) but I felt snooped on as I subscribed for the service on only one email, but the service icon appeared at the top of every email account I opened on that computer. Any input on how to prevent that or which service might be a bette option?

[MoYS]

Is there any way to recover emails after they are permenantly deleted from gmail? If the email had previously been opened on a phone would it be stored in the phones memory? and if so how would i re-access it?

[lubaby]

Is there any way to recover emails after they are permenantly deleted from gmail?

From google / gmail, no.

If you have another device signed into the account, that “pulled” the email into the email client, and has not yet synced back online to “get the deletion”, you may be able to salvage it by turning on airplane mode on that device, going into the email client, and printing / downloading whatever you need.

Be careful though, as soon as that device connects to the email server, the deletion will come through and you’ll lose it there too.

[stooges44]

Is there any way to recover emails after they are permanently deleted from gmail? If the email had previously been opened on a phone would it be stored in the phones memory? and if so how would i re-access it?

This worked for a client once, I'm still not sure how he managed to delete months worth of email but he did and this https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery got it back.

I must say I was and still am shocked that it did.

[lubaby]

This worked for a client once, I'm still not sure how he managed to delete months worth of email but he did and this https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery got it back.

I must say I was and still am shocked that it did.

Don’t get your hopes too high, most of the reports I’ve seen online were people unsuccessful (that’s why I didn’t mention it).

About your client:
Some people don’t necessarily understand how the labels / filter views work. If you have an email with 3 labels on it, it’s not 3 separate copies that you can delete what you want from the label view. If you delete from there (and then empty trash), it deletes the actual email.

[MoYS]

This worked for a client once, I'm still not sure how he managed to delete months worth of email but he did and this https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery got it back.

I must say I was and still am shocked that it did.

I actually found it before you posted it, retrieved the emails.... all 100,000 of them (it wasnt for me, but then again who would own up to doing that... )

Don’t get your hopes too high, most of the reports I’ve seen online were people unsuccessful (that’s why I didn’t mention it).

About your client:
Some people don’t necessarily understand how the labels / filter views work. If you have an email with 3 labels on it, it’s not 3 separate copies that you can delete what you want from the label view. If you delete from there (and then empty trash), it deletes the actual email.

It was a similar case, with different labels, only a lot worse...

[stooges44]

Don’t get your hopes too high, most of the reports I’ve seen online were people unsuccessful (that’s why I didn’t mention it).

About your client:
Some people don’t necessarily understand how the labels / filter views work. If you have an email with 3 labels on it, it’s not 3 separate copies that you can delete what you want from the label view. If you delete from there (and then empty trash), it deletes the actual email.

I know but I looked high and low for his months of emails and was blown away when they started flying in after following the recovery steps.

To this day he doesn't understand why there's an "inbox" and "all mail" he begs me to get rid of one or the other 

[MoYS]

I know but I looked high and low for his months of emails and was blown away when they started flying in after following the recovery steps.

To this day he doesn't understand why there's an "inbox" and "all mail" he begs me to get rid of one or the other 

LOL! thats what it was, inbox and all mail!

[etech0]

I'm not a fan of the new font in google hangouts

[chff]

https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-google-chrome/

[coffeebean]

This worked for a client once, I'm still not sure how he managed to delete months worth of email but he did and this https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery got it back.

I must say I was and still am shocked that it did.

My mother accidentally deleted over 100,000 emails from over 15 years and I recovered all of them this way

[MoYS]

My mother accidentally deleted over 100,000 emails from over 15 years and I recovered all of them this way

It seems like this problem is more prevalent than previously thought...  did it happen also because of doubled labels?

[coffeebean]

It seems like this problem is more prevalent than previously thought...  did it happen also because of doubled labels?

It happened because my father was playing with her phone (no explanation)

[lubaby]

It happened because my father was playing with her phone (no explanation)

Your mother is Hillary Clinton?

[etech0]

When someone shares a google drive folder with you, and you click "Add to my drive" so you can see it under "My Drive" instead of just under "Shared with Me", does it count against your storage limit in addition to the other person's?

[junion]

I am looking to send out mass texts and heard about the following potential solution.
If you receive a text to your Google  Voice number you see an receive it as an email from an address like this {yourGVnumber}.{sender phone number}.{10 random characters}@txt.voice.google.com
If you ask everyone who will be getting the texts to send a text to your GV number, you will then have the ability to email them using the above email and they will get it as text. If you email all those numbers at once it will be a mass text.
Problem is, I tried it using a new google account and google voice number and the texts were coming a day later or not at all.
Is this because it was a new google account?
I heard of someone doing this successfully but they were also receiving many incoming texts, so perhaps that was the reason why it wasnt flagged. Before I try using my personal GV number, I want to make sure it works.
Does anyone have any experience in this, or know why the texts were coming a day late or not at all?

[Thingywingy]

I have this issue, specifically within Gmail. When I try to copy text, I have to select the text twice in order for it to copy to clipboard...anyone else have this issue?

[justmeha]

how can i save an email as a draft so that i can send it again and again with out it disappearing from my drafts?

[Alexsei]

how can i save an email as a draft so that i can send it again and again with out it disappearing from my drafts?

That's an awesome idea, I used to use labnols draft duplicator