New Gmail annoyance?

[13Gigatons]

Cleaning up my email by dragging and dropping emails into labels and it keeps "highlighting" half the page like for a text copy, is this just a bug?

 

[JEDIYoda]

why do you need to drag and drop??? Seems like doing things the hard way....

 

[Ichinisan]

why do you need to drag and drop??? Seems like doing things the hard way....

This.

Enable keyboard shortcuts.

Type your search.

Make your selections.
(select whole blocks by selecting the first message, then hold shift as you click the last message)

Hit the L key to bring up the labels menu.

Type the first few characters of the label you want to apply, then press Enter.

Tap E to archive the messages that are still selected, which simply removes the Inbox label.
(your left hand should always remain on the keyboard)

 

[13Gigatons]

why do you need to drag and drop??? Seems like doing things the hard way....

Drag and drop is the easy way. Just grab a email and drop it on a label and it's moved. You can drag and drop multiple messages as well.

Suddenly it's highlighting half the page when I begin to drag. It still moves the email though.

 

[Ichinisan]

Drag and drop is the easy way. Just grab a email and drop it on a label and it's moved. You can drag and drop multiple messages as well.

Suddenly it's highlighting half the page when I begin to drag. It still moves the email though.

I've always had problems with Chrome doing that selection thing.

 

[skyking]

Only thing lately is an absolute explosion of spam. I used to see 3~5 in my junk folder daily. Now it is 30~40 in the last week or so.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Drag and drop is the easy way. Just grab a email and drop it on a label and it's moved. You can drag and drop multiple messages as well.

Suddenly it's highlighting half the page when I begin to drag. It still moves the email though.

obviously It is not as easy judging by your thread...

 

[purbeast0]

it's not a bug, it's just pebcak

 

[Ichinisan]

I've had a problem in recent weeks with it putting legitimate messages from coworkers in my Spam folder. Because my Gmail account pulls those messages from another server via POP protocol, it doesn't have the benefit of interacting with the server where a message originated, so it can only judge the message by its content.

Still, that wasn't a big problem until recently.

I made a filter to make sure specific email addresses didn't get sent to Spam. Now, those messages are going to my Inbox and they show a disclaimer notice indicating that the message would have gone to Spam except they were prevented from going there by my filter. They shouldn't be in my Inbox though. They're supposed to bypass the Inbox according to other filters I have. Annoying.

 

[dainthomas]

Drag and drop is the easy way. Just grab a email and drop it on a label and it's moved. You can drag and drop multiple messages as well.

Suddenly it's highlighting half the page when I begin to drag. It still moves the email though.

Set up a filter and there is no dragging and dropping.

 

[PliotronX]

This.

Enable keyboard shortcuts.

Type your search.

Make your selections.
(select whole blocks by selecting the first message, then hold shift as you click the last message)

Hit the L key to bring up the labels menu.

Type the first few characters of the label you want to apply, then press Enter.

Tap E to archive the messages that are still selected, which simply removes the Inbox label.
(your left hand should always remain on the keyboard)

And this is why touch screens will never dominate as productivity devices.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Gmail always opens weird in Netscape and Mosaic. I refuse to switch to Gmail from Pine until they fix it.

 

[Ichinisan]

New annoyance I noticed today:

I performed a search the trash folder (in:anwhwere subject:blahblah) and selected a contiguous block of related messages. One of them was a "out of office" auto-reply that was deleted. I still wanted to apply relevant labels to all of my selections, even the ones in Trash (in case I decide to un-delete them later). I applied my labels. Some of the items in my selection were still in Inbox, so I pressed "e" to archive them.

Well, the one in the trash was automatically un-deleted. I'm pretty sure that behavior is new. Typically, archiving only removes the Inbox label.

 

[Jeff7]

This.

Enable keyboard shortcuts.

Type your search.

Make your selections.
(select whole blocks by selecting the first message, then hold shift as you click the last message)

Hit the L key to bring up the labels menu.

Type the first few characters of the label you want to apply, then press Enter.

Tap E to archive the messages that are still selected, which simply removes the Inbox label.
(your left hand should always remain on the keyboard)

And this is why touch screens will never dominate as productivity devices.

Have you seen how a lot of office workers use their computers?
Some of them could operate for a long time with only one hand, and it's going to be on the mouse, not the keyboard.
Some of them know of Ctrl+C/V. Most use the Edit menu. A few don't know what the term "copy/paste" means.😵 Even some who know their way around a computer quite well will prefer the mouse over keyboard shortcuts. Left hand sits idle on their lap, right hand runs the show.
I may be biased a bit though, due to my aching, overused joints in my right hand.

Meanwhile, I tend to do most of my filebrowsing on the server at work without bothering to touch the mouse. Using a mouse just takes too long, and I still don't have a USB hookup embedded in my brain to bypass my clumsy fingers. DARPA's working on something along those lines though. 😀

 

[Cyco]

FWIW, the same thing happens to me when I drag and drop.