Permanently deleting emails from Gmail, while saving them in AppleMail

I'm trying to figure out how to permanently delete emails from my Gmail All Mail folder without deleting them from the folders I moved them to in the On My Computer area of my AppleMail on my MacBook Pro. I like the IMAP syncing function in Gmail that keeps my iphone, ipad and MacBook all synced from an email perspective. However, I don't like my emails living on Gmail's servers any longer than they have to. I don't want them living on Apple's servers either, so I'm not using iCloud.
I only want emails to remain on the Gmail servers for as long as I keep them in either my inbox or sent items. I use those two folders as my holding zones for items that still require action. Once I have done what needs to be done in regard to an email, I either delete it or I move it to a folder under On My Computer on my MacBook Pro for possible later reference. If I move an email to a folder, I never want it to be deleted. I use a Time Capsule to back up my Macbook through Time Machine, so I'm not worried about losing my historical email files from a hard drive problem. I also back up the MacBook quarterly to a separate hard drive which I store offsite in case a catastrophe at my home destroys both my MacBook and the Time Capsule.
I have about 8 years of email history that I imported from my old PC into the MacBook in AppleMail and I now want to clean out the All Mail account in my Gmail to delete all those emails, but I need them to remain in my folder system on the MacBook.
Can anyone tell me how to delete all mail from the Gmail account without having the IMAP function delete them from my MacBook Pro?
Here's an added complication. When I move an email from my inbox to a folder on my MacBook, I do want that email to disappear from my ipad and my iphone. In essence, I like to manage all my emails from my MacBook Pro if they need to be saved into folders, but I also like to be able to delete emails that don't need to be saved from any of my devices and have that deletion sync to all my devices.
I haven't been able to figure this one out. Any help is appreciated.

Make local folders (On My Mac) and move the mails there, they will delete from the GMail servers but remain accessible in Mail, only in Mail.
All Mail (in Gmail) is not a folder, it is a label for all your mail, anything in there is also in one of GMails folders, when you delete from All Mail you are deleting the original mail.

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