Can Anyone Explain This

[emmie]

on my old laptop I have Gmail which is fine. I bought a new laptop where I have been able to access my Gmail, so far so good. What hasn't happened is all my old folders where I keep necessary mail, has not loaded onto the new laptop. so when I access my Gmail on the new laptop, I can't see any old e mails. except the news ones that have arrived in the last few days..
does any of this make an ounce of sense.

I am using Edge, but if I go into Firefox, they are all there. It just means I am switching browsers whenever I want to look at the old Gmail.

[Old_Geezer]

I guess you needed to maybe export the data file from the old laptop and import it to the new. No knowledge of Gmail but it may be as easy as copying over the relevant file and setting Gmail to find it.

Hopefully a Gmail savvy individual will give more details.

[Old_Geezer]

Bit confused if you are using browsers though. The site they go to should be the same. That said, although I try not to use Gmail it's there, and I noticed the tablet sees more than the phone does. Weird.

[emmie]

Barry said he didn't understand this when I mentioned it on another thread...and he is tech savvy. I tried forwarding the Gmail from firefox to the new Edge Gmail and all it does is save them in draft.

[Jackdaw33]

Why not just stick with Firefox? Not many people use Edge.

[emmie]

I quite like it and don't want to change, I had problems with Firefox on my old machine, it kept on dropping out and saying Firefox not responding..

[emmie]

in fact there have been any number of problems, but I considered it was just me with a new laptop and was being a bit thick.

[Maydup]

I think we've bought very similar laptops emmie! I'm new to mine, new to W10 and Edge but determined to persevere with Edge now that I've got this far as the reviews say it is fast and secure.

My emails came through eventually. I kept searching for something that I needed to do to up load them, and low and behold, a few days later some had arrived and now they are all there. they just took a while and were automatic. hope its the same for you.

[Maydup]

maybe worth checking this

Go to Windows
Settings
Accounts
Email and accounts
Click on your email account
Manage
Options
Download from - and choose ANYTIME
(In case its set at only downloading the last few days worth of content)

[ichkeria]

A long shot, but are you using Firefox with the thunderbird email extension?

[emmie]

ickeria, no don't think so..

[ichkeria]

As I say, a long shot, but it might have explained why Firefox presents your emails in your folders and Edge doesn’t. They are after all only browsers and if all you are doing is using them to get to your email server they should display the same thing. I use thunderbird, which is a desktop email program, but I don’t use it as an “add-on” to Firefox so I don’t know how it interacts with the browser.

[ToraToraTora]

emmie, edge is more trouble than it's worth, It hates all things google.

[emmie]

its a lot quicker than firefox.

[ToraToraTora]

yeah but as your recent posts demonstrate it doesn't do what you want.