How to Hide Folders and Labels in Gmail IMAP

Their oiled bodies skin to skin, head to rear and rear to head: sardines in their can epitomize a crammed compartment.
Like sardines, then, the players throng to hide from the remaining searchers in the game sardines.
Like sardines, also, all the Gmail labels you do not care to find as folders in your email program hide in this cranny somewhere in your Gmail settings — never to be seen:
›› Stop "All Mail" and other labels from being synchronized when you access your Gmail account using IMAP.