Difficulty consistently syncing mail.app with gmail IMAP

I've got my gmail account mapped to mail.app via IMAP. However, when I move a folder from inbox to a gmail folder (within mail.app) that gmail folder shows up as empty and only through gmail webmail does it show up!ail! I've got four emails in my @W-F folder on gmail, but while the @W-F imapped folder shows up in mail.app, the emails within it do not. Please help with this syncing problem. I sincerely appreciate it. Thanks.
All the best,
John

Hi patrico.
If I’ve understood it correctly, it’s as if Mail was simply not checking for mail on the server...
Could it be that the account is in an “offline” state? Is the Mailbox > Go Online command enabled or disabled?
What’s the time interval chosen in Preferences > General > Check for new mail?
Go to Preferences > Accounts > Advanced. Is Include when automatically checking for new mail ON or OFF?
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Do you have any Mail plug-ins? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you may just copy it from this post and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You may then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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