tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post1315781560507699594..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Disabling Gmail ConversationsAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-28625338541197487472015-10-05T09:50:00.996-07:002015-10-05T09:50:00.996-07:00I agree 100%! And the entire "conversation&q...I agree 100%! And the entire "conversation" has the same original heading. And the messages aren't even in chronological order!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663667425622900993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-31062732695221563012015-10-05T09:47:32.844-07:002015-10-05T09:47:32.844-07:00It's like a DISorganized filing system!It's like a DISorganized filing system!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663667425622900993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-3174620516066270362015-10-05T09:46:05.011-07:002015-10-05T09:46:05.011-07:00I hate it! How can I disable this "feature?&q...I hate it! How can I disable this "feature?"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663667425622900993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-19875718444262292562013-02-19T12:30:07.062-08:002013-02-19T12:30:07.062-08:00Ok I've disabled 'conversations'now (h...Ok I've disabled 'conversations'now (hope ti works) but that's the other thing it's only with this blog that I learned that this grouping ofemails was called 'conversation' .<br />When i saw this in the settings i had no idea this referred to this grouping. Why would I? I thought it might have something to do with Messenger and i didn't want to disable the chat feauture<br />Gmail is complicated - a tutorial option would be good - other email services are simple and self-evident like yahoo, hotmail etc and don't require itSorryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13596441393324393504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-1103887946746886612013-02-19T12:14:33.218-08:002013-02-19T12:14:33.218-08:00yes a conversation thread can be useful but you sh...yes a conversation thread can be useful but you should be able to switch it off.<br />you can't find sent emails or received emails from a specific date if they're all grouped into one conversation thread.<br />A sent email from 26 Dec is embedded in a received email in January.<br />Gmail search engine won't find it - i just to have open all the emails from the person concerned to see where it's hidden. Who has the time for this?<br />How do you print just an individual email? and not the whole conversation - copy and paste?Sorryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13596441393324393504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-13992628670734995522011-12-10T12:24:31.603-08:002011-12-10T12:24:31.603-08:00To Anonymous: THANK YOU!!!! I was just checking...To Anonymous: THANK YOU!!!! I was just checking out other email alternatives to move because this was DRIVING ME NUTS!!! Let's hope it holds. <br /><br />When I clear my cache/cookies every day on Google I have to go to the gear and redo the "don't use Google instant" and "Open in a new window" and save prefs. Every time I clear that pref reverts to the default, and now they are changing the look of Google again. So now I'm trying to find a clean, no gimmicks Search engine. I don't do Social Media --- none, and don't chat, or play games. The computer is a tool for me as a writer. Hard to overcome the young geeks who do 25 things at once. <br /><br />Anyway, I've been researching this conversation/threading problem for weeks.<br /><br />Again THANKS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-80838732363223057162011-04-26T06:50:32.420-07:002011-04-26T06:50:32.420-07:00HOW TO ELIMINATE CONVERSATION VIEW -
While in mai...HOW TO ELIMINATE CONVERSATION VIEW -<br /><br />While in mail, click on the "gear" in upper RT hand corner.<br />Select mail settings<br />About half way down the page select "Conversation View Off"<br />Save settings<br /><br />Voila<br /><br />Hope this works for you too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-70840824391241625822011-02-16T10:29:48.994-08:002011-02-16T10:29:48.994-08:00"Despite the fact that they supposedly instal..."Despite the fact that they supposedly installed the Disable option, I've yet to locate it. I don't really care about the ignorant numbskulls who insist that "conversations" are the next best thing to sliced bread. If GMail's core operating strategy is based on Conversations, and it is "difficult to disable it", then I suggest it was poorly designed. Applications are supposed to make user's lives easier, NOT force-feed them an ideology until they gag on it. Paul Buchheit is an arrogant idiot, if he thinks that he knows what is best for me or any of the thousands of other individuals who find Conversations incredibly frustrating. REDESIGN your damn app and let users decide what features are best for their unique needs! Sheesh, the very idea that hundreds of blog entries are required to get such a simple point across is prehistoric."<br /><br />--- Spot On!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-44348349150674931082010-12-22T22:02:51.003-08:002010-12-22T22:02:51.003-08:00Thanks a ton for giving such a great option of swi...Thanks a ton for giving such a great option of switching off converstation mode . I really dont want to switch from gmail. Threading is giving threat. Thank alotUmair Aslamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02887085439124773170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-18755403380615447192010-12-09T07:16:19.161-08:002010-12-09T07:16:19.161-08:00You could use a different mail client to access gm...You could use a different mail client to access gmail. For instance there is the HTC Mail on Android. Having gmail accessed through there, or any other client, doesn't create a conversation because that is only in gmail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-86565701052248280362010-12-05T12:46:02.254-08:002010-12-05T12:46:02.254-08:00Despite the fact that they supposedly installed th...Despite the fact that they supposedly installed the Disable option, I've yet to locate it. I don't really care about the ignorant numbskulls who insist that "conversations" are the next best thing to sliced bread. If GMail's core operating strategy is based on Conversations, and it is "difficult to disable it", then I suggest it was poorly designed. Applications are supposed to make user's lives easier, NOT force-feed them an ideology until they gag on it. Paul Buchheit is an arrogant idiot, if he thinks that he knows what is best for me or any of the thousands of other individuals who find Conversations incredibly frustrating. REDESIGN your damn app and let users decide what features are best for their unique needs! Sheesh, the very idea that hundreds of blog entries are required to get such a simple point across is prehistoric.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-86796249078186460742010-11-29T20:44:29.091-08:002010-11-29T20:44:29.091-08:00When conversations are threaded, can all of the em...When conversations are threaded, can all of the email recipients (even when sent separately from me) see all of the emails? I disabled threading conversation after I saw two separate emails to two separate people with no common topic threaded. It was very disconcerting as they were private emails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-88069313144905207522010-10-15T07:50:03.546-07:002010-10-15T07:50:03.546-07:00Looking forward to toggling conversations on/off.
...Looking forward to toggling conversations on/off.<br /><br />Certainly if you are using Gmail for business it is important at least every now and then, to be able to look at, print, forward and resend individual messages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-39077518189030156272010-09-27T14:47:26.722-07:002010-09-27T14:47:26.722-07:00Hallelujah!
Good point on smart phones. They need...Hallelujah!<br /><br />Good point on smart phones. They need to stop that as well. <br /><br />And, um, isn't google search technology? Why are labels (metadata) needed in the first place? Shouldn't we be able to do intelligent search without tagging/labeling or moving our emails to folders?<br /><br />DumbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-84374506815117941072010-09-26T20:54:24.261-07:002010-09-26T20:54:24.261-07:00I use gmail for business and get many emails per d...I use gmail for business and get many emails per day. I sometimes need to be able to reference emails based on when they were sent and this becomes very difficult when grouped in a conversation.<br /><br />I also miss emails because the most recent email is always at the bottom and sometimes I forget to scroll down to see if there are any more messages. If there is a new message and I fail to scroll down and look at it then I will generally miss that message because it will have been marked as 'read' when I opened the conversation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-1032574247524396852010-09-21T07:28:56.729-07:002010-09-21T07:28:56.729-07:00Yes.Please give a choice to select it ON or OFF.Yes.Please give a choice to select it ON or OFF.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-74049089662271415952010-09-20T07:18:20.002-07:002010-09-20T07:18:20.002-07:00Can't stand this feature! I miss important ema...Can't stand this feature! I miss important emails too! Please disable or give us the option of disabling this function.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-14690661905843913532010-09-20T03:39:35.611-07:002010-09-20T03:39:35.611-07:00Please have choice to turn off this feature.
For s...Please have choice to turn off this feature.<br />For some old school people, that they alway ask me when move to Gmail.suphothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504331060869874157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-57672320232504443922010-09-18T10:53:45.523-07:002010-09-18T10:53:45.523-07:00All we want is a choice to turn it off. I don'...All we want is a choice to turn it off. I don't understand the way people defend this feature. "Since I like it... everybody else should like it. Otherwise they are stupid". If you like it keep it on, but I would like the choice to turn it off. I hate it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-48731077473711669462010-09-15T13:11:44.232-07:002010-09-15T13:11:44.232-07:00I know Google is extremely proud of gmail's co...I know Google is extremely proud of gmail's conversation feature, but isn't it clear by now that multitudes of users hate it? Give us the option to turn it off. I'm on the verge of going through the agony of changing email providers just because this conversation thing causes me to miss messages and spend way too much time trying to figure out the sequence of messages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-91085901432570574662010-09-03T17:23:24.566-07:002010-09-03T17:23:24.566-07:00The problem for me with the conversation model is ...The problem for me with the conversation model is the fact that it groups together messages from the same email address and possibly the same subject even though they are not related<br /><br />ie. I run a forum and have to monitor new topics and replies - because they all come fromt the same source etc they are grouped together making it virtually impossible to use.<br /><br />The same thing applies to breaking news alerts which I receive in email which mainly for the forum the breaking news items are not related in anyway but this ill thought out system lumps them all together.<br /><br />Ond of the most frustrating things with google is that peole having been calling for the ability to turn of the conversation module since the launch yet rather than deal with that they introduce new features such as priority inbox which in fact clutters the interface even more<br /><br />Time for MASS Google resignations I feelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-64440747456487759382010-08-29T22:58:57.912-07:002010-08-29T22:58:57.912-07:00No, you can write about anything, but conversation...No, you can write about anything, but conversations only group messages. They don't have magical powers to send messages to random people. You can reply to a message from a conversation, reply to the original message or use "reply to all" to add all the recipients.Alex Chituhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-8365591693123660562010-08-29T19:05:51.215-07:002010-08-29T19:05:51.215-07:00And Alex you can like this feature all you want......And Alex you can like this feature all you want... but I know my emails have gone out to people to whom I did not send them and have also appeared as if they came from me rather than the person who actually sent them. I have been sending email since the day it was invented and I have no intention of needing a college degree to "understand" a system which sends my emails out to people I did not send them to.. and it DOES do that because it bundles the conversation and sends it to everyone you have ever sent that subject line to. This has happened at least twice for me but it won't happen again. And since this site is moderated my posts cannot appear unless they are approved by the moderators, who are the only people who have the right to tell anyone what they can and cannot write about. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-77464065536968602112010-08-29T19:00:18.976-07:002010-08-29T19:00:18.976-07:00Another thing to be aware of. If someone in one of...Another thing to be aware of. If someone in one of those conversations sends an email it can look as if it came from a different person. One of the people in my four-way conversation responded to my gmail message and coded in my new email address. The message came to me as if it was written by ME at gmail when in fact it was written by a friend. The same thing happened to one of the other people in the group. A message said it came from me when it came from someone else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-87394048629370222252010-08-29T15:22:14.949-07:002010-08-29T15:22:14.949-07:00@anonymous:
You obviously don't understand th...@anonymous:<br /><br />You obviously don't understand this feature, so you shouldn't write about it.Alex Chituhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.com