All of my emails just suddenly vanished. It happened on my phone earlier today, now its my laptop or even the direct gmail site. Any help?
GMAIL Help Needed
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Did you accidentally apply some kind of filter to your inbox? Sorry if that's a stupid question but its the first thing I could think of as a reason.
Yeah they're gone even when I go to the website itself, its not just my phone or laptop; some older ones are still showing on my iPad but nowhere else
If someone sends you a new email, are you able to see that email? Have you checked your spam or all mail to see if there's anything in those folders?
Seems to be an issue with several Google support suggestions:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7015314?visit_id=637419374015199379-1056307518&rd=1
Seems to be an issue with several Google support suggestions:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7015314?visit_id=637419374015199379-1056307518&rd=1
I seem to be getting new ones, but anything already read is gone. I've checked Spam, Trash, Archive, every folder; all gone
Correction, I ended up finding them all in a different trash folder. Can someone walk me thru WTF I did to make shit go directly there once read.
Deep breathe
Well, first, you should immediately change your password, enable 2FA, and revoke access to all other devices.
IS it possible I got some kind of virus? I'm now seeing a bunch of "message send failure" emails to people I didn't send emails to
Echoing above, change pw, revoke access to all devices. I’m a paranoid type so I’d wipe my phone and start fresh, download Google Authenticator and enable 2FA.
You can check your logins, too. Agree with the above regardless, but you should be able to tell if someone accessed the account.
I did all that. Can someone give me a quick response as to why I found them in IMAP ive never had that turned on before?
EDIT: I'm a dummy, I don't know the difference between POP and IMAP, but they were in IMAP trash can
EDIT: I'm a dummy, I don't know the difference between POP and IMAP, but they were in IMAP trash can
And now they're gone from IMAP trash....WTF?!?!? There was just 8K in there (not that I wanted all those back)
POP downloads the emails to your device. They are then removed from the server. IMAP leaves them on the server so you can read them from any device or computer wherever you are. To me the whole point of web based email like Google is to use IMAP.
Not to be a wise guy, but I have lost thousands of emails before and found that I didn't need them. Unless they contain the nuclear codes, once I read and reply they serve no purpose. YMMV and good luck.
Not to be a wise guy, but I have lost thousands of emails before and found that I didn't need them. Unless they contain the nuclear codes, once I read and reply they serve no purpose. YMMV and good luck.
No I’m pretty much same boat I don’t keep more than like 25-50 in inbox and half of those are basically there as reminders. There’s was just two I specifically wanted I recovered the important one, the other was more for posterity but it’s not a huge deal. I got the file I needed.
I didn’t have imap turned on tho and they’ve always shown up on the website. I dunno what the hell happened.
I doubt you did anything wrong. Are you viewing your gmail at gmail or thru a client like Outlook?
I hope you've already changed your password and enabled 2-factor authentication. Have you? That's kinda the first-thing, do-it-yesterday task. Then once you know that only you can access your account, you'll know that it's just down to you and whatever you're doing.
At Gmail they don't appear either; I was looking at them through Mail on Apple, but went straight to the site and gone.
Yes, see post 17