# Anyone else losing emails from GMail yesterday and today?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787 "2014-09-07T18:11:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787/1 "2014-09-07T18:11:33Z")

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I’ve lost email threads that were active yesterday. They are gone from my online GMail account, my laptop, iPad and cell phone. The same threads, gone.

My wife just sent me an email a few moments ago. I watched it download onto the laptop. It never appeared in my In Box. I checked the online GMail account. It never arrived there at all. It is as though email is trying to be received, and then is not able to arrive.

The deletion of previous email threads is equally scary. Anyone else having weird GMail situations today?

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787/2 "2014-09-07T18:14:54Z")

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Did they get sorted into another tab or folder?

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787/3 "2014-09-07T18:19:17Z")

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Nope. I checked every sub-folder. I know I didn’t make any of those choices, but of course did look into every sub-folder anyway.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787/4 "2014-09-07T18:48:03Z")

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Do you have some sort of offline email client that’s downloading and then deleting the emails from your Gmail?

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-losing-emails-from-gmail-yesterday-and-today/697787/5 "2014-09-07T21:25:57Z")

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If they are a part of an Email “conversation”, check your Sent box to see if any of your prior messages are still there. Everything should still be there, except the last messages from the past day or two that you can’t locate.