Gmail on mac mail not staying in sync

I've been having issues using my gmail account on the mail app, and they have persisted even since the recent update.  Sometimes, mail that I read on another device (iphone/iPad/gmail.com) and then either delete or move to all mail will still appear in my inbox on the mac Mail app.  I try to synchronize the account and quit and relaunch mail but this doesn't work.  the only thing which TEMPORARILY helps is removing the account all together and the re-adding it, but after a while the sync gets out of whack again.  Its hard to say exactly, but I believe this is mostly for mail i sent to All Mail rather than delete.  I have two gmail accounts and they both have this issue.  I did notice the mail app had created a label called Archive which I removed on my gmail settings b/c I kept confusing it with Gmail's own All Mail label.  I don't see why this would cause the problem, especially since the last Mail update is suppossed to fix issues for users with custom Gmail settings, but i'm not sure.  Anyone else having these issues?  Can anyone shed any light on this?  It's becoming very frustrating!
Laurence

I've been having issues using my gmail account on the mail app, and they have persisted even since the recent update.  Sometimes, mail that I read on another device (iphone/iPad/gmail.com) and then either delete or move to all mail will still appear in my inbox on the mac Mail app.  I try to synchronize the account and quit and relaunch mail but this doesn't work.  the only thing which TEMPORARILY helps is removing the account all together and the re-adding it, but after a while the sync gets out of whack again.  Its hard to say exactly, but I believe this is mostly for mail i sent to All Mail rather than delete.  I have two gmail accounts and they both have this issue.  I did notice the mail app had created a label called Archive which I removed on my gmail settings b/c I kept confusing it with Gmail's own All Mail label.  I don't see why this would cause the problem, especially since the last Mail update is suppossed to fix issues for users with custom Gmail settings, but i'm not sure.  Anyone else having these issues?  Can anyone shed any light on this?  It's becoming very frustrating!
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