[Magdalen] Help--older gmail messages!

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I may not have been clear amidst all the stuff I tried to put in my email,
but that carat which goes back one email at a time also should allow you to
go back to a previous screen of emails. You multi-click fairly rapidly on
that carat and instead of just going back one email, it enables you to go
back to emails prior to those on the screen.  I found that it does not
always respond, which is why I suggest clicking on it several times.  This
part of G-Mail is not the best.

Supposedly you are able to customize it, but it's not clear to me how that
works.

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 Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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*
>