| How do I stop gmail from trimming messages? - it's driving me mad! |
JAP200 |
11/16/11 2:36 AM |
Explain your issue in full detail here: Over the last few days I am becomming irritated by the seemingly random trimming of emails in Gmail - how do I switch this feature off? Please Also Include: Operating system (e.g. WinXP): Windows 7 Program |
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bkc56 |
11/16/11 11:18 AM |
Can you be more specific about what you mean by "trimming". I don't think that's any feature of Gmail. |
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JAP200 |
11/16/11 11:31 AM |
Thank you. What I mean is that when I look at an email I only see part of a message followed by three dots. If you hover the mouse over the dots the words 'show trimmed content' appears. Sometime it is ridiculous and trims 2-line emails down to |
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bkc56 |
11/16/11 12:55 PM |
OK, I understand. The "trimmed content" is typically quoted text from a previous message (identical content) and so they hide it so what's initially visible is only the NEW content. Most people don't need to see the message they just sent that the |
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crockettj |
11/17/11 12:12 PM |
This recently appeared in my Gmail in the last few days and is driving me nuts too. It needs to be removed or an option added to get rid of it. Please don't tell me which of MY content is important to me. You'll be wrong 99% of the time. Jonathan |
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bkc56 |
11/17/11 1:24 PM |
This recently appeared in my Gmail in the last few days... Unlikely as this feature has always been there. It's just that before it was called "- Show quoted text -" (or Hide). Now it's just three faint dots. But it's the same functionality as ha |
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cohler59 |
11/24/11 7:05 PM |
No, you are wrong bkc56. If you read what crockettj wrote, you will see that crockettj is NOT talking about quoted material in replies, which is a completely different subject. bkc56 is correct in saying that this feature has only appeared very recen |
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taxskill |
12/7/11 6:01 PM |
For me, this is a disaster. I have emails I sent which are reduced to two lines and the rest of my original content is gone. Hover over the ellipsis and it says "Show trimmed content", but nothing happens. I have important information in threads |
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fezzaa |
12/8/11 10:45 AM |
And it would be so easy to solve. Just give me the option under settings to "not trim messages and always show all content". |
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psder |
12/9/11 5:30 AM |
Same here. " I have emails I sent which are reduced to two lines and the rest of my original content is gone" An e-mail is NOT a post in facebook!!!!! |
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mslehman |
12/10/11 12:57 PM |
This is so irritating. I want Gmail to hide quoted text, but I do not want it to hide random sections of a new email in a conversation! I just want it back to the way it was a month ago, before this change that did nothing but cause inconveniences |
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newshnd |
12/13/11 8:04 PM |
I am having the same problem and yes it is much worse than it used to be. We need an option to turn it off and Google needs to look at its algorithm for trimming and fix it. |
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aaronesseltine |
12/15/11 5:03 AM |
Yes, I agree, there needs to be a way to turn this feature off! I find it incredibly irritating! |
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Coop-A-Loop |
12/15/11 9:34 AM |
I agree Gmail needs to turn this feature off. |
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aaronesseltine |
12/22/11 12:47 PM |
Still no answer/solution! This is ridiculous! It's not just trimming quoted text from a previous email. In conversations back and forth it's trimming NEW content from the emails that I sent. I don't want to have to click "..." every time just to see |
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taxskill |
12/29/11 6:46 AM |
It is even worse now. GMail is trimming content from emails I send. When I go in my sent file I only see 2 lines of the email I sent. I am checking with the recipient to see if they got the whole message or just two lines. Why isn't Gmail respond |
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John C Abell |
12/30/11 7:44 AM |
GMail trimmed an e-mail I sent from the FT in such a way as to conceal the shared link. It should not be keying to anything which is not a standard formulation for quoted material — if it should be doing that at all. In my case, teh e-mail was trimme |
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asl22 |
1/5/12 5:38 PM |
I am new to Gmail and I just realized that a few times my name (ie where I sign off at the end of outgoing email) is gone when I reread what I've sent. I click on the dots and see my name is there in a light shade of gray. Does this mean it is not v |
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bkc56 |
1/5/12 6:40 PM |
No. The trimming is totally local to your account to (hopefully) help you see the content and not the stuff that's duplicated on multiple messages. The user will see the full message. |
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mslehman |
1/5/12 7:52 PM |
asl22: What bkc56 said is not true, and that is what everyone in this thread is complaining about... the new gmail is trimming all sorts of important stuff from messages, and things like signatures are trimmed (i.e. hidden until you click the button, |
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bkc56 |
1/5/12 9:00 PM |
If they don't use GMail, then that's not physically possible (obviously). If they are using Gmail, then they have the same type of local trimming going on that you do, and can expand it the same way. |
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ChrisPeach |
1/6/12 3:55 PM |
This is actually causing me potentially dangerous issues at work. Have you ever replied or forwarded a group emailing, and perhaps want to carefully EDIT OUT something someone said that for your sake and theirs you best remove? No? Then this feature |
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