Gmail categories issue in Mail.app

Hi,
I notice a problem with Gmail in Mavericks 10.9.1. Mail does not seem to be compatible with the new Inbox categories (Promotions, updates, social, ...). If I remove such a mail from my inbox with iOS 7, the mail stays in my inbox in Mavericks.
When checking on the Gmail website, it seems the affected mail has one of the new categories assigned to it. So, Mavericks assumes it is still in the inbox.
I have tried disabling the feature in Gmail, but mails still keeping on being assigned these labels.
Come to think of it: maybe it's rather an iOS issue, as the mail is not properly archived.
Anybody an idea on workarounds or how to disable this Gmail feature?

*I figured it out!*
Simple fix, here is what you do - open Mail v4.2 > Preferences
Select your Gmail account with this weird problem (I say select, cause in my situation I have multiple Gmail account setup but was having trouble with 1).
Then goto > Advanced tab
and then just type "/" (forward slash) - and then wait for a minute, it should fix it and allow to receive all the ghosts messages again - which apparently were visible under my online (web based) gmail.com's account also on my iPhone. You might see double messages, don't freak out like I did - Quit Mail v4.2 and restart that should go away as well, like in my case. Strange? Definitely
Anyways, hope this helps!

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