How to make sure you do not miss emails in the new Gmail interface

The new Gmail interface that divides emails into different groups such as primary, promotions, social or forums has been up for some time now.
If you are using Gmail on the web, you have probably grown accustomed to the new look of it, or removed all but the primary group again if you did not like the idea of having to click on multiple tabs to check all of your newly arrived emails.
I do not like the approach that much, for various reasons. First, Gmail has a powerful filtering system that can be used to create the same effect. While it may take a bit longer to configure, it will work as well in the end.
Second, it means that you have to click multiple times just to check all new emails that you have received.
Third, it may mean that users overlook emails because they are not added to the primary group but another one. The primary group is the one that gets loaded when you start Gmail.
Move emails to Primary
If you want to make sure that you do not miss out on specific emails, you can move them to the primary group to do so. There are other means to do so as well, for instance by making emails important based on the people in the conversation, but one of the most effective options is to mark an email address as primary if you are using the new interface.
To do so, simply drag and drop the email address to the primary group button at the top. You will receive the following notification at the top:
The conversation has been moved to "Primary". Undo
Do this for future message from [email address]?. Yes
If you do not do anything, only that conversation will from that moment on appear in the primary group. If you click on yes, all messages from the email address will appear in the primary group instead.
You can move emails to other categories, for a reverse effect. If you notice that emails that you do not really care about land in the primary group, move them to another group to have them out of sight when you load the Gmail web interface.
It is a small change but one that counts. It ensures that emails that you care about land in Primary, and emails that you do not really care about land in another group that you may not open that often or at all.
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It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
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Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
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Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
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I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
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Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!