Gmail currently won't let you select specific messages in bulk, making managing your mailbox a nightmare. The problem is that Google has deleted this function by accident and apparently it is not going to restore it immediately. Users, logically, are very angry. Traditionally, Gmail offered a basic mailbox management feature: "select all conversations that match this search." any other action you want. But today, all of a sudden, users who use this essential feature to bring some order to the chaos that is a mailbox, have found that it has disappeared from the Gmail interface without any explanation. “But what the hell are they thinking??? Actions can now only be done on a maximum number of posts per page. Crazy! ", Posted on Twitter a user who apparently is up to the capacitors. "I've tried it with Chrome, Firefox and Safari, including incognito / private windows. I don't see select all conversations in any of them, "complained another.
Deleted by accident
Most surprisingly, Google didn't want to remove that feature, and it was presumably removed by mistake during an update or maintenance. The company goes public with its users and has announced that it is investigating what has happened. “We're working to resurrect the Gmail feature that allows you to 'select all conversations that match this search' as soon as possible. The feature was inadvertently removed," the Mountain View company said. While Google works to restore this feature, Gmail users who want to keep cleaning up their inbox can use something that uses the mail filtering system. It's pretty messy and not as straightforward as the missing function, but works in an emergency:- Click on the drop-down menu in the right outline from the Gmail search bar to open the Advanced Search menu (Advanced Search), to create a new filter.
- Select the action you want to apply to messages in the search filter (for example, "mark as read"), then turn on "Also apply filter to matching conversations" (also apply to matching conversations).
- Record and you will see that the action is applicable to the messages that match the advanced search of the filter.