Mail is no longer syncing with Gmail

I've archived everything in my inbox in Gmail thrlough a browser, but in the Mail app, i'm seeing over 2000 emails in the in box.

I agree, and if you have a large amount of mail on the Gmail servers it might take over 24 hours to sync. I have about 18 GB of mail on Gmail and it took over 24 hours to sync. I went to Mailbox on the menu bar and forced the sync serval times, but I don't believe that speeded up the process. I first upgraded my Macbook Air and compared it with my iMac. There was a big differnce in the Inbox on my Macbook Air for several days. Now a week after the upgrade, all folders appeat to have synced. Next week I will probably upgrade my iMac to Mavericks.

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Contacts no longer syncing with GMail

It is very frustrating when things that are working suddenly stop. Here's what I had working: GMail Contacts on web and Android in bi-directional sync with MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 and Contacts version 7.1. I use Contacts as a conduit to Entourage version 12.3.6 and that part of the chain is still working perfectly. However, the link between Mac Contacts and Gmail Contacts is broken. New contacts created in Entourage appear in Mac Contacts, but not in Gmail.
I've tried two different ways of syncing GMail, both the built-in way in Contacts and creating a CardDAV account. Nothing works. Whatever process the Mac OS uses to talk to GMail Contacts is broken.
I don't really understand the difference between CardDAV sync and the built-in way Mac Contacts syncs and if there are any benefits to one or the other. The built-in one worked perfectly until a few days ago. Its even more crazy that within the Contacts app, if I select "All On My Mac", I see one particular contact, but when I select "All Google", it is not there.
Any thoughts?

Thank you Csound1. I found a couple of other bits of info to compliment your solution. Remember that my overall goal is to sync GMail Contacts with Entourage, and Entourage is the source of most of my problems. [Believe me, I would use Outlook for Mac if it was half the program Entourage is, but alas, its terrible. No Projects module is a deal breaker.]
Anyway, contacts created in Entourage appear in Mac Contacts, but there's *something* wrong. They are missing the "Card" field. That is why they don't sync with GMail Contacts. Contacts created in GMail Contacts correctly sync across to Mac Contacts, both through CardDAV and the built-in check-box in the Account setup. I guess my work-around from here on out is to create all new contacts in GMail. This is kind of a bummer, but I'll get used to it.

Apple Mail STILL does NOT sync with GMAIL...even with Mavericks 10.9.2...why?

Apple MAIL still does not sync well with Gmail.
I have to close Apple Mail program down, re-load it, select "synchonize all accounts." Then MAYBE it will finally sync up. If not, I do this again and again. Then, randonmly it seems, it finally syncs.
My iOS devices sync instantly and accurately 100% of the time. When I pull down the inbox to update, it does so almost at once. Accurately.
WHY does Mavericks APPLE MAIL have so many issues STILL!? Worked fine before Mavericks? Is there a solution?
Mike

I'm not sure if you were seriously asking or just looking for a place to vent, but I've read a lot about this topic and so I'll give a brief reply.
Unfortunately, I've not seen a solution to this problem. Many people have had success with various "voodoo" solutions (re-starting or some variant) but there's really been no reliable, consistent answer to this problem. Most people seem to think that syncing was improved (but was not completely fixed) with the 10.9.2 update. The only "solution" I've seen is to move off of GMail.
As to WHY this is happening, well, again I've not seen anybody diagnose the problem in any scientific way, but the consensus seems to be that this problem started because Apple modified the way the Mail program stored and indexed a GMail account. Many people (including you) say "it worked fine before" and yes perhaps it did, but there was a big problem lurking.
As you might know, Google moved off the mail standard when they created their mail system. Now, this is a rant for another post, but IMO by doing that they should have provided code for 3rd-party mail clients to use their new mail system properly. But of course that would defeat any competitive advantage their own client had, so instead all they did was support an IMAP interface.
The problem is that when an email arrives at your GMail account, it is in your Inbox and also in the "All Mail" folder. This is not in concert with IMAP protocol where a message is only in one folder. So a naive IMAP email client downloads such a message twice. If a message happens to be in a several folders (tags in GMail-speak), an IMAP client downloads it several times. It might have looked like it was "working fine" to you, but for people who have many gigabytes of mail, this duplication is a big problem.
Likewise, if you search for an email, an unaware IMAP client will find it in multiple folders, and report back each copy. Anyway, you get the idea. Apple tried to improve their Mail client to support this, and unfortunately they have a big bug. Well, I say "big" because it really annoys me. Apparently it must be not be affecting a large percentage of Mavericks users or else they would have fixed it by now. Even more annoying, there's no "switch" to get Mail to act like a dumb IMAP client again. It appears to detect that it is talking to GMail and this new system kicks in automatically. (Perhaps this could be tricked by using some kind of proxy?)
So why is this not happening on iOS? Well, again, nobody knows for sure (and Apple isn't saying), but the theory is that they didn't implement this complex scheme on iOS (yet). Maybe they were first testing it out on Mavericks, or perhaps they didn't think it was worth the trouble because on iOS the Mail caches are typically much smaller. On a desktop machine, usually there is a copy of all your IMAP mail sitting on the disk. On a mobile device, only a few messages are kept around at any time.
Sorry I don't have more info to give at this time. Good luck.
Bark.

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This morning Mail 3.0 stopped downloading new mail or updating with the server. I am getting new mail on my iPhone, and the iPhone does reflect Gmail - but Mail 3.0 does not.
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You may want to double check the settings as instructed [HERE|http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275].
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Mail won't sync with gmail

Mail app won't sync with my gmail account. I've tried deleting my gmail account and setting it up again, but am getting an error message that my user name or password is incorrect. My iPhone Mail app isn't syncing with gmail either - same error message. I can get into gmail through Safari. I sure would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks.

adamlea wrote:
I can log in to gmail through Safari, using the same login/pass I've always used. When I check the error message in Mail, the error is: "The server returned the error: Account exceeded bandwidth limits. (Failure)." Never had a bandwith issue before, ever.
that's a different issue. you said before that it didn't like the password. what it actually doesn't like is the number of simultaneous connections. quit Mail on all other computers/phones you use to access gmail and try setting it up in Mail on this computer again.

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After upgrade to Yosimite my Mail keeps crashing. Usually it is like this: i open it, then after minute it crashed. Usually with following error: "Crashed Thread: 3 -[MailApp performSynchronizationForAccounts:] Dispatch queue: NSOperationQueue 0x618000051040" I was trying to find particular mail, but it crashes on different messages in different time, so it doesn't look like corrupted message. So i deleted com.apple.mail and Mail folder from Library and started Mail again. I added my gmail account and during importing mail crashed on last message, like 834 of 835. After launching Mail again issues continues, random crashes after 30-60 seconds. Error is the same. So it looks like it crashes during syncing with gmail. Any help? Thanks.

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I am having the same problem. I have snow leopard and since I upgraded to itune 5.0, I have had nothing but problems. In icloud, all of my events quadrupled which then caused all my ical events to do the same on my computer and phone. What a nightmare! The apple support guy had never seen anything like it! I have since cleaned up my calendar on both my phone and macbook, but now any event I add to my phone does not show up during sync. I noticed that when I go into mail, contacts, calendars and then go into my gmail account, the calendar button is set to off. If i try to switch it on, I get a message asking what I would like to do with the local calendars on my phone. I am afraid to do anything so I just cancel! Any thoughts? The calendar on my computer is current so I could always over write my phone during a sync--but still unsure. Thanks

Notes stuck inside iPad - should sync with Gmail

I have been blithely taking notes on my iPad thinking they were syncing with Gmail, however, although the notes sync in the gmail account had been enabled, nothing has syncronized since March. Fortunately, I at least have a back up of the notes within the backup of the entire system.
So, I just noticed I have a problem because I just bought a macbook and iphone and want to syncronize across all three platforms. I should note that adding notes in icloud does syncronize. However, unlucky me, I had my notes in Gmail because the iOs configuration template led me to believe this was a viable option, and by the way, I seem to believe I have been doing this longer than iCloud existed.
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1. This one is a nuisance but not a real problem: When I turn off the notes feature in the gmail account settings in the accounts template (the one that has the gmail logo on it) - all my notes disappear on the ipad. I was told that this is because the ipad believe this is syncronizing. HOWEVER, it is not, so Apple should have a warning prompt just like they do in their own icloud settings, presumably for their own icloud they believe it is synchronizing - so why a warning for one but not the other. If I knew they would be removed from the device when I turned the notes off, I wouldnt have done this.
NB: I had the same gmail account which was intended but failing to synch with notes correctly configured and doing all the good things it should when configured through the exchange template in Mail Accounts.
2. The real problem: After 5 hours with tech support and on hold -- I know, surreal -- the senior advisor told me to email the notes to myself, and that there was nothing else to do. I'm posting in the hope that there is something else to do, i would like to think I can migrate the notes ostensibly from gmail, but really only on my ipad to icloud or something. I have enough notes that this is reasonably annoying to accomplish one by one.

I fell your pain and no thereis no good solution to this nasty issue. However you can view your Outlooknotes on your iOS devices but I had to do a sync via PC iTunes and sync cable to each device (iPhone 4 and iPad 2) not a very good solution (no support for OTA iCloud sync, LAME!). Then when the Outlook notes arrive on my iOS device in the Notes app its under a separatefolder "From My PC". All notes generated on your iOS devices are in the folder [email protected] or iCloud folder. Further more if you go to your iCloud webpage you will only see the notes you generated from your iOS devices (if youhave Notes sync turned on) and you can't edit them nor can you create new notes from the iCloud webpage interface! Extremely sad and downright terrible migration from Mobile Me. These are simple text notes this should not be so difficult but Apple chose to treat them the same as email messages basically and made a flashy "Notes App" just like the new iOS 5 "RemindersApp" same thing.
If you’re like me and your looking to go away from your Outlook Notes and just want to put all notes into the Apple Notes then you need to use one of your iOS devices and manually cut and past the notes one at a time from your "From My PC" folder then create a new one on in your iCloud folder. This is also so darn ********! You should be able to select all do a copy then go to the iCloud folder and past,done (but you can't)! With hundreds of Notes collected over the years you’re not likely going to manually open each one select all, copy close and create a new note in the iCloud folder.... and by the way I'm not looking to load Evernot at this time so stop suggesting exporting my Outlook notes to Evertnote, this is not a solution to this issue.
Apple are you listening!?

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Hello everyone. So recently I noticed that my Google Contacts no longer sync with my Contacts app, and this is really upsetting as I'm a person who needs to have updated contacts and both my phone, as well as a backup on my Gmail account, as I am both a Google and Apple user.
I am using an iPhone 5S, on 7.1.1.
My Settings has my Gmail account signed in, and has the "Contacts" switch turned on. I deleted the account, and re entered it, and I am still not seeing any activities of the Google Contacts and Contacts app syncing.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, so I would really appreciate it if someone could give me some ideas as to what might be going on. I'm real tech savvy but I have no idea what caused my contacts to stop syncing. My Google Calendar events sync just fine, so that's even more confusing.

Okay.. it won't let me go back and edit my earlier postings however... the problem is solved. I went in and Deleted ANY resource that iSync could get it's hands on that it kept in the iSync folder and the SyncServices Folder in the Libray Folder under Users. I actually moved the contents for those folders to a different volume. I then deleted the resources for Palm Desktop making it create a new user account. The Next time I opened iSync.. It went crazy trying to find resources.. it opened Calendar for me and I never saw it open address book but I saw that it was reading Addresses. I then Opened iTunes next and noticed that my full contacts from my address book were put back on my iPod!
Shew!!! one down and one to go. I prayed and added my palm device to iSync. Then I synced and got conflict popups for my Addresses and Calendars asking me how to reconcile ( I was only getting those for the Calendars earlier). I then re-synced and checked my Palm and All of my contacts were in the Treo 650! I then changed a few entries and synced again for a few tests and it appears to be fixed.
This is the problem with gradual upgrades as opposed to clean installs when you update your OS. It's just that OS X doesn't give you that option. in the Pre OS X days I would never just upgrade my OS. I would also Re-Format and Re-install. That's always been my preference.

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I'm on a 4S IOS 7.1 won't show my Google Calendar I have about 8 that should be showing. FIXED!!
I'm posting this here because your answers didn't help with my particular problem but aimed me in the right direction. so maybe this will help someone else.
------------------------------ This is what I tried ------------------------------
At the bottom of the calendar app click Calendars there should be a check to the left of your calendar. (my calendars weren't even listed here)
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------------------------------ My Solution ------------------------------
Since I deleted all my accounts already this is what worked I don't know why.
Under “Settings – Mail,Contacts,Calendars – Accounts”
I added my google account “add account” “Google”... so on. Calendar was selected.
I added a second account “add account” “other” (at bottom) scroll down to “add CalDav Account” under calendars.
Server= www.google.com
user name = your email
password = your password
description = whatever
Calendar was selected.
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ICal and Address Book no longer syncing with iPhone - HELP!

HELP!
I am a long time Apple user and rely heavily on my iPhone to keep me where I need to be, when I need to be there. I have an iPhone 4 and it is running OS 6.0.1. Everything was working fabulously until recently. Sadly I don't know when the problems started--when I updated to OS 6 OR when I updated iTunes to version 11. Either way, my iCal and Address Book no longer sync with my iPhone. And to add insult to injury, my phone is no longer automatically detecting the AT&T microcell I have in my house. I have to reboot my phone every time I come back in the house--talk about annoying.
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For me, a few days later is just started working so I assumed it was a temp glitch. I am however now having trouble with ical updating to google. Also, an ongoing issue I have is that google or apple duplicates my contacts. I go into google, delete dupes, and then a day or two later they are all back.
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Iphone sync with gmail caledar

My iphone can't sync with gmail calendar since three weeks ago.
In my iphone configuration I have as an exchange account ([email protected]) the contacts and the calendar on.
In the iphone screen exchange calendar I get the correct account ([email protected]), what did I touch that I didn't have to touch?
Desde hace tres semanas, no me sincroniza gmail con calendar.
En la configuración de iphone tengo como cuenta exchange([email protected]) contactos y calendario activados.
Y dentro de la pantalla de iphone calendario en exchange me sale la cuenta correcta ([email protected]), donde he tocado que no deberia de haberlo hecho?

Good grief. You quit way too easy.
Which part of this is over your head?
Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Select your Gmail account. If created as an Exchange account, Exchange will be available at the top left above Account.
There should be Mail, Contacts, Calendars below to turn on or off, and a Mail Days to Sync option if created as an Exchange account.
To create the account as an Exchange account.
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740

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