How Do Gmail Labels Relate to Folders?

✳️ Gmail labels are similar to folders, but there are a couple of important differences to know if you use a desktop email program to access Gmail.

✳️ Labels and Folders in Gmail
Gmail uses what it calls labels instead of folders to organize email. All email in your Gmail account is stored in a single, large bucket but categorized using multiple labels. This system can cause confusion when you access Gmail using desktop email programs like Outlook, which interprets labels as folders, typically leading to duplicated messages across different folders.

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0:00 Gmail Labels to Folders?
0:25 Gmail doesn’t have folders
1:20 See Gmail folders
2:30 All mail
3:00 Spam and trash
3:15 Multiple emails
3:50 Custom labels
5:15 Archiving
11:50 Gmail only has one copy

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