(I've been muscling my way through the various dated on-line guides, and reddit help has been so key... thank you... I'm almost there ;))
mbsync successfully gets my email into \~/.maildir/myGmail/
mu info shows maildir as \~/.maildir
Email is indexed, I can run mu commands and see emails, etc.
**TL;DR: Invoking mu4e in emacs then makes the \[Gmail\] structure under \~/.maildir rather than using the already existing \~/.maildir/\[Gmail\].** (The effect is I can go to unread email, but can't jump to inbox or any directories because they aren't where the mail is, they show all empty since they're the new dirs mu4e made.)
I have no idea where this would be coming from since I thought mu4e is just going to use the mu info. Also I was going to try to re-init mu with \~/.maildir/myGmail, but can't figure out how the hell to do (and seems like it won't work for multiple accounts anyway). I can't seem to kill mu (can't find the process), but trying to init says it may already be running.
If you can point me toward additional info that would be great. I'm on mac homebrew emacs and mu. (Much thanks to u/FrostyX_cz blog post on getting mbsync up).