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here:  How do I delete "All Mail" box on left (archived) without
deleting other labels' content? Reason is a virus in Gmail
archived messages which I cannot locate due to the large amount
of archived messages. It is not in my labeled messages
share|improve this question The "All Mail" tag is special in
that it literally contains all your email. Email that appears in
"All Mail" and nowhere else simply does not have any other
labels applied to it. You can hide the "All Mail" label/box on
the left, but this literally just hides the label and nothing
else and won't help you to find the lost emails, so I don't
think this is what you want to do. If the email does not appear
in one of your labels then the label has been removed from the
email. The process of archiving an email simply removes the
"inbox" label. –  w3d Aug 28 '12 at 16:23 Why are you not able
to search for these messages? Gmail offers a reasonably fine
grained control in how to search, wit