In Gmail, how do you access your Archive?

All archived mail goes into the All Mail section along with all sent and received mail. It’s simply a way to clean up the inbox.

What about chats?

If you search for ‘is:chat’ all of your chats will show up, even if they have been archived.

Or you can just use the chats button.

Tried that and it doesn’t bring up the chats I archived. It’s not the end of the world, but there’s some I wanted to see again.

Weird. They should be there. I just experimented a bit, and it doesn’t seem like archiving chats does anything, since they aren’t in the inbox to begin with. All the chats that I archived are still in the chat section.

No – they’re gone from there in mine.

It’s possible that the other person turned the chat to “Off the record”

@papayalily If it was already in my Chat History and then I moved it to Archive, could it disappear by them turning on “Off the Record”? Doesn’t seem likely.

@janbb Search the person’s name and maybe a word or two you remember came up.

Thanks.

@papayalily I jsut tried searching the person’s name and a word and several “hidden“chats did come up from somewhere in the cloud. Thanks a lot for that suggestion!