I wanted to archive all “Inbox” messages to archive them.
That folder contained a lot of messages, related to several years conversations.
I noticed that “Ctrl + A” doesn’t actually select all messages but it appears limited to 200.
I had to repeat the sequence “Ctrl + A” + Archive several times to achieve the job…
Is this behavior known? Can you confirm?
To check:
go in a folder with more than 200 messages, like “All Messages” folder of GMail for instance
press select all (for me is ctrl + a)
scroll down at the end of loaded messages
you will see other UNSELECTED messages appearing
That confirms select all function doesn’t actually select all, but may be just what is loaded from remote folder (via IMAP I would say).
Wouldn’t be better if “Select All” function really does a full unlimited selection of all messages within the current folder?
I can confirm I see the same behavior on my clients. I haven’t noticed this before myself, but I’ve never attempted to perform a large function like this on individually-selected messages. I looked back through the old issues forum and found many references to this 200-limit during Select-All operations, but no answer from the devs as to why the limit exists or why it hasn’t been removed.
I also discovered that I can Shift-select more than 200 messages and that seems to work fine, but I didn’t look for an upper-limit of how many I can select in that fashion.
There really needs to be a way to do a true select all. Coming back to IMAP email from hosted services… I’ve got tens of thousands of old emails that need to be marked as read, so I can relearn how to live in a world of folders rather than labels and privacy averse “smart features.”
I need to sort my own mail. Establish my own rules. Clear the backlogs. I don’t want to do that in waves of 200 messages. And I don’t even see a clear way to make sure I’ve selected the NEXT 200 messages, after I’ve processed the first.