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I just finished a project and would like to download (to my local hard drive) copies of all of my emails in Gmail associated with this project. These emails have already been applied with a common label that uniquely identifies them. What are some ways to do this please?
I'm comfortable with "everyday" software, can look things up, follow instructions, etc. but not advanced enough to write my own scripts.
On one of my accounts, the name was updated immediately after sending an email message. On another account, I just checked back after several minutes, and it showed the right name. So it seems that this is either a delayed process, or you must invoke some functionality (e.g. send an email) for Gmail to pull these settings from your account.
Log in to Gmail from your browser of choice and click on the settings icon (the gear in the upper right-hand corner) and select Settings.
Go to the Accounts tab and you should see a list of all the associated email accounts.
In my example below, I have my primary Gmail account on top, followed by an associated Hotmail account.
Click the delete option on the right, and you can remove the account association.
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One way is with Thunderbird, another way is with the Google interface, as follows:
When you're in your gmail account, there is a profile icon in the top right corner. It might look like a blue person, or it might have a custom photograph you uploaded. Click on it, and choose "Account." Now click on "Download data" under "Account tools." Click on "Select none," and then click to the right of Mail in the alphabetized list. There is a little arrow just to the left of the green checkmark. Click on that. Choose "Select labels", choose appropriately, and at the bottom of the page, click "Next." Choose the appropriate delivery method (Drive or email), and click on "Create archive." I tried this out and it hadn't finished yet after half an hour, for a label with a dozen short messages. While it was working, a message was displayed saying "Please note that mail archives may take a long time (hours or possibly days) to create."
If it gives you trouble -- thunderbird works great. Your gmail label will show up as a folder in thunderbird. And that will correspond to a folder in your thunderbird profile.