[Magdalen] Help--older gmail messages!

[Grace Cangialosi]

Jim, this is helpful to the extent that I can now see 100 messages at a
time, and I can click interminably on the right hand carat to go back
through messages one at a time.  However, there used to be a way to scroll
down through the whole collection of emails without stopping until you came
to the one you were looking for, but that seems to be gone. You can still
do it with Yahoo mail.

Having to click back, one message at a time, is a royal pain...

But I do thank you for your help--at least now I know what the process is..

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:14 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should have a display at the top, righthand side of your currently
> displaying email.
> This should be a number (e.g. "6 of 357") and to the right of this, you
> should see a small oblong with two carats
> They should look like this:   "  <     >  "
> The right-hand carat calls for the next older email. You should be able to
> roll back one by one through all of your email. A bit time-consuming, but
> do-able.
> However, if you click multiple times on the right-hand carat, it gives you
> the option of going back to older email.  Keep clicking on the right-hand
> carat, and you should get older sequences of emails.
>
> Now it may be that you do not see these two carats.  I have noticed at
> times that they disappear, because they are being displayed with the same
> color as the background, which effectively makes them invisible. It's not
> supposed to do that, but it did it with me a few times.  If you remember
> that the carats are actually there, just to the right of the numbers, even
> if you can't see them, they are still there, and will still work.
>
> If you do not see the carat at all,  go a small distance to the right of
> the number display (the "5 of 7265" or it may say "6 of many"). You want to
> click far enough to the right that you do not click on the left-hand carat,
> which will move to the next newer email.  If you do this by accident, it is
> absolutely no problem. You will know you simply need to click just a bit
> further to the right to get the right-hand carat.
>
> Another fix is to look at the area I was just talking about, but look just
> a little further to the right.
> You should see a small window with what looks like the cog of a mechanical
> wheel in it.
> Click on this wheel. You will get a drop-down menu. One item is settings.
>
> Click on settings.
>
> You should see a nice big window with a lot of choices. The top menu should
> be showing "general."
> If not, simply click on the menu choice at the top of the window that says
> "General".
>
> Below, look for the heading "Maximum page size"
> You will see to the right a number of pages.  Click on this number of
> pages. You will get a drop-down menu with different numbers of pages.
>
> Click on the selection 100.
>
> That will enable you to see one hundred emails headers at a time.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My gmail window only shows me the last 50 messages, and I can't get it to
> > go past November 29th.  I need to find an older email,in Magdalen, but I
> > can't find anything that will let me see older messages.  I don't
> remember
> > having this problem before--I could scroll down through many back dates.
> >
> > --
> > Grace Cangialosi
> > Ruckersville, VA
> >
> > *"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with
> great
> > love."*
> > *St. Teresa of Calcutta*
> >
>



-- 
Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
love."*
*St. Teresa of Calcutta*