I suggest you unsubscribe from allmail. that is a tool for Gmail and is an unneeded duplicate of every message in every folder, and it slows your PC down with this extra administration. This also applies to other Gmail-specific folders such as 'important.'

Hello David,

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

How is unsubscribing downloading of messages done? I think I've already done this under the account settings -> Synchronization & Storage.

Thanks again,

Tony

Try this: - highlight account in left pane of main window - rightclick and select 'subscribe' and untick allmail there