Hi Deborah, The challenge is that my Inbox gets bloated and I have to delete emails so I have to dilate all these emails regularly in folders which just duplicate what I receive in other folders like my regular Inbox. That and older email with attachments which my gmail can't seem to find with recommended settings by both generous list members and Googled results suggest make gmail a lot more user-unfriendly email client than Mozilla Thunderbird (which has its own peccadillos). A lot of time wasted without access to tech support from The Alphabet to resolve these issues. Thank you. Charles. Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:24:09 +0000 From: "Fitchett, Deborah" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: gmail groups deletions Those categories/labels are a Feature of Gmail that they've decided is so important that I can't see any way to turn them off (any more than you can delete the 'spam' folder). You can limit how much they get in your way, however: