[Magdalen] FW: Computer stuff

[Scott Knitter]

I go in sometimes and do various searches on random stuff to delete, like
bank alerts and what have you. Hundreds at a time, if not thousands.

I like not having to tag or file anything (although one can if one wishes)
-- would rather throw it all in one big pot and use the good search engine.

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:19 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ha!  In your message, Ann, was what I needed to do to move one  from A to
> B.  Thank you!
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Ann Markle
> Sent: February 23, 2018 5:44 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] FW: Computer stuff
>
> At the top of the page of an open message there’s an icon of a folder (or
> on my iPad, 3 dots in the upper right corner). Clicking on it makes a list
> of your folders come up. Clicking on the desired folder moves the message
> to that folder. To move several you get on the inbox list and click on the
> icon on the left, in front of one or more of the messages, then click on
> the folder at the top (or the 3 dots), and they’ll all move to the selected
> folder. That’s how mine works, anyway. For a lot,lot, lot you can go to
> something like the filters, set up a filter (like any mail with Magdalen in
> the subject header), and it will ask, “Do you want to move 10,000 (or
> however many are there) emails to this folder?” If you click yes, it will
> sort them all out for you.
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:50 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Even my newly created folders have turned up in Gmail.  Now if I could
> > just see how to file an important message in one of those folders.
> > It’s getting close to Friday beer time.  My poor old brain is exhausted
> > after an afternoon of this!
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
> > From: Lynn Ronkainen
> > Sent: February 23, 2018 4:41 PM
> > To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] FW: Computer stuff
> >
> > You have 90,000 messages? Be still my heart,  I thought I was crazy to
> > have 40,000 ; )
> > Lynn
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
> > From: Marion Thompson
> > Sent: February 23, 2018 3:07 PM
> > To: magdalene at herberthouse.org
> > Subject: Computer stuff
> >
> > All of a sudden here I am in Gmail.  Wierd.  I seem to have been
> > transported to another planet.  The Gmail icon appeared in place of
> Mozilla
> > Thunderbird.  What did I hit?  There was a moment when Thunderbird seized
> > up under the weight of, well, everything.   I was in Facebook land and a
> > window appeared lower right telling me of a new email having come in from
> > an old friend.  Without thinking I clicked on that message.  It clearly
> was
> > having trouble connecting, so I clicked on the X, like forget I said
> that.
> > Eventually another screen appeared giving three choices.  Cancel the
> > program is what I hit, thinking I would simply get out of the big clog.
> > Went back to FB and have just noticed the Gmail symbol like an envelope.
> > No sign of the Thunderbird one.  Clicked on the new icon and up came the
> > current emails I had seen earlier today on T’bird.
> > .
> > I think someone suggested going to Gmail as a way to solve my problem.
> Is
> > this a sign of divine intervention?
> >
> > T’Bird is still there with its 90,000+ messages.  Can I safely ignore it?
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA