{"id":9055,"date":"2009-08-03T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:03:12","slug":"gmail-missing-spam-starred-thrash-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/gmail-missing-spam-starred-thrash-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore Missing Spam, Starred, Thrash, Chat Links in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you <strong>missing Spam, Starred, Thrash, Chat, All Mail links in your Gmail Sidebar?<\/strong> I was missing all these very useful links in my Gmail and investigated to find where these  commonly used links dissappeared.<\/p>\n<p>This is now my Gmail sidebar looked like. None of these folders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"134\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9064\" title=\"spam-missing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/spam-missing.gif\" alt=\"spam-missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Gmail introduced a new <a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.googleblog.com\/2009\/07\/labels-drag-and-drop-hiding-and-more.html\" rel=\"noopener\">drag, drop and hide Labels<\/a> feature, and since then all these links have gone missing. It is because Spam, Starred, Thrash, Chat  and All Mail are now<strong> part of Labels<\/strong> and <strong>hidden by default<\/strong> from the Gmail Sidebar. Clicking on  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">More<\/span> link will show these hidden links.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"109\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9063\" title=\"spam-in-labels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/spam-in-labels.gif\" alt=\"spam-in-labels\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So how do you restore these links back so they show forever? &#8211; you go to <strong>Labels settings<\/strong>, where you can unhide (or Show) these links and they automatically get back. You can hide the clutter in the sidebar and restore links you use often.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9062\" title=\"labels-settings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/labels-settings.gif\" alt=\"labels-settings\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/labels-settings.gif 392w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/labels-settings-300x233.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally I solved the mystery of the <strong>missing spam folder<\/strong> and locate where my <strong>thrash was gone<\/strong>. I wonder why Gmail decided to hide these very useful and commonly used links like Spam, which I am sure many people check daily to find any important email which Gmail may have incorrectly marked as spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you missing Spam, Starred, Thrash, Chat, All Mail links in your Gmail Sidebar? I was missing all these very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}