the AOL email is more trouble than it's worth and I have decided that I have no choice but to move my family email to a new gmail account .. I need to save/move/relocate my email folders. What is the best way to do this please?
Open an account
Do some research
Google this: transferring from aol to gmail
Below info might be one of the things that you want to be aware of.
ADDING LABELS to Gmail
NOTE: Gmail does not have “FOLDERS”
LABELS are what I know as FOLDERS
Using labels
Labels help you organize your messages into categories -- work, family, to do, read later, jokes, recipes, any category you want. Labels do all the work that folders do, but with an added bonus: you can add more than one to a message.
Only you can see your labels, so whether you mark a message with "Best friend" or "Read later," the sender will never know.
Create a label
Here's how to create a label that you can add to any of your messages:
You can also create a new label for a message in your Inbox by selecting the box next to the message, clicking the Labelbutton above your message list, and then clicking Create new.
Apply your label
You can add a label to your messages in several ways:
When you add a label to a conversation, it only applies to the messages already in that conversation – not to messages sent after you applied the label. When you search for labeled messages, you'll see any messages that match the label, along with their conversation thread. However, you won't be able to search for an individual message in the thread that doesn't have that label.
Please study this from :
GMAIL HELP IMPORT AND FORWARD EMAILS
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
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thanks! fingers crossed
Moving contacts from AOL to Gmail