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Feature Request: Hide folders

Open shenom-x opened this issue 6 years ago • 7 comments

As I can´t get rid of some folders and some are not needed (by myself) - this woukd be a nice little extra feature.

Or does somebody know another addon? Can´t find anything yet.

Thx / Sascha

shenom-x avatar Nov 17 '18 16:11 shenom-x

Never experimented any difficulty to suppress a folder. What type of folder ? What is the link with "Manually sort folders" ?

Gluups avatar Nov 17 '18 21:11 Gluups

With IMAP (maybe with POP3 as well?) you can simply unsubscribe from certain folders in Thunderbird. Right-click your account, then choose "Subscribe...".

mschwerhoff avatar Nov 21 '18 15:11 mschwerhoff

That is true, Malte, but some folders mysteriously return even after unsubscribing.

jason-hub avatar Feb 08 '19 20:02 jason-hub

Did you try deleting the "cache" files that Thunderbird creates for IMAP folders? Check your Thunderbird profile folder, then probably ImapMail/<your-account>. There, you'll see files and directories named after your IMAP folders. Delete them (or, to be on the safe side, temporarily move them), restart Thunderbird and hope that the unwated folders are gone for good.

mschwerhoff avatar Mar 02 '19 21:03 mschwerhoff

While both sides of the above argument are correct, there is one detail missing. Yes, we can unsubscribe from IMAP folders and - at least in theory - hide them that way, But we cannot unsubscribe from Local Folders… as in the built-in account. A hide function - at least on that account - would be very useful.

excolo-rick avatar Nov 17 '20 10:11 excolo-rick

But we cannot unsubscribe from Local Folders

Is there a way to delete them?

lgbaldoni avatar Feb 28 '21 14:02 lgbaldoni

@lgbaldoni At least in TB115.10 there is a "Hide local Folders" option in the ... menu of the tree view

datenheim avatar May 26 '24 19:05 datenheim