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Local Folders Corruption

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mcoates
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I have just updated to version 91 and am still having a problem that I have had for about 2 years and this is to do with unified folders and local folders.

If I am just viewing folders ALL then I can see all of the local folders I have set up and are using, screenshot attached showing the 10 local folders that are visible in the view ALL

If I am viewing folders UNIFIED then I can only see 3 folders and not 10 folders that I have when viewing local folders. screenshot attached

Something is really wrong and I can't work out what it is. I expect that there is some way of changing local folders which are displayed in the unified view but I can't work it out myself

I have just updated to version 91 and am still having a problem that I have had for about 2 years and this is to do with unified folders and local folders. If I am just viewing folders ALL then I can see all of the local folders I have set up and are using, screenshot attached showing the 10 local folders that are visible in the view ALL If I am viewing folders UNIFIED then I can only see 3 folders and not 10 folders that I have when viewing local folders. screenshot attached Something is really wrong and I can't work out what it is. I expect that there is some way of changing local folders which are displayed in the unified view but I can't work it out myself
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Matt
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Have you tried closing Thunderbird, opening your profile folder, navigating to the mail folder and deleting the "smart mailboxes" folder then restarting Thunderbird?

That forces a full rebuild of the unified folders (they were smart mailboxes historically before they were unified)

mcoates
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Hello Matt, yes tried this and its exactly the same result. Thanks for trying anyway.