Thanks for the help.

Tried all of those and nothing works.
The strange thing is that under my primary mail account (ntlworld) I have Inbox and Deleted. Nothing else. Then this folder called Google Mail with the sub folders, including this pesky "All Mail" which has email sent to my NTLworld, hotmail account and everything that gets spam filtered.

My standard "sent items" is also under "Google Mail"

When I delete all the items in this folder, before they return I get a message saying "there was an error in synchronising your offline changes. Some of the offline changes you made since you last connected to the server may have been lost"

I have also removed my primary (ntlworld) account and that got rid of the Google Mail folder. I then readded and it simply came back and repopulated.

EDIT: I have found a way to get rid of the "All Mail" folder, buy running a query and unsubscribing from Google Mail/All Mail, but I can't lose the "Google Mail" folder as it says it is special and I can't unsubscribe.

Oh well, at least I have done most of what I wanted. Thanks for the help

I don't use any other computers, though this is a new build. I do not use Google Mail and am very frustrated!!!!