# Help organizing Gmail folders please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539 "2018-06-21T21:43:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539/1 "2018-06-21T21:43:05Z")

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I like to organize my emails into project-related folders and when a project is completed, I like to keep it in existence, but hidden.

I have changed my Settings so that I don’t see the old folders in the list at the left of my inbox, but I _do_ see all those old folders in the drop-down “Move To” menu.

I’d like that drop down to only show my “active” folders as reflected in the list in my inbox.

Can that be done?

Don’t need answer fast except to the extent that this has been annoying for years.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539/2 "2018-06-21T21:54:12Z")

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I don’t think that’s possible. If the folder exists, it will appear in the “Move To” menu.

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**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539/3 "2018-06-22T00:48:49Z")

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I think **DCnDC** is correct. But you can move them down to the bottom of the list.

Suppose you have a project to raise the dead, and the GMail label is “Raise the dead”.

You go to the “Manage labels” screen. (I guess that’s what it’s called in English…)

You create a new label called “Z\_finished”. Then you modify “Raise the dead” so that it’s a sub-label to “Z\_finished”.

From then on, the “Raise the dead” project/label/folder should appear near the bottom of the “Move To” menu because, well, alphabet.

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**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-organizing-gmail-folders-please/816539/4 "2018-06-22T05:48:54Z")

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Thanks **Heracles** , that should work. I already float folders to the top by adding an “a”, I should have thought of the reverse.