Gmail Swaps Right-Side Labels for Old School Drag n’ Drop
For those of you lamenting the loss of being able to drag an email from your inbox to a folder as you did in GroupWise, Google has thrown you a bone. You can now drag message items from your mailbox to any Label on the left-side of your screen. Just highlight one or more messages and click the vertical dots on the left-side of the mailbox, then drag the message(s) to an appropriate Label.
Google giveth, yet also taketh; the Right-Side Labels Lab is no longer available. A reminder of the text at the top of the Gmail Labs page:
“Boise State University – Apps for Employees Mail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time.”
See the Official Gmail Blog for more info.
Not really a fan of this new feature as it has apparently completely killed the use of Folders4Gmail, which I really loved. Am wondering if there is a way to get my Folders4Gmail back??
Folders4Gmail is not working at this time, though it’s possible the script author will update it in the near future.
In any case, this is why the Help Desk doesn’t provide support for similar plug-ins for Google Apps; they can break at any time without warning. Your mileage will always vary.