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Wo archive tread sia. Meɖekuku bia biabia yeye ne ehia kpeɖeŋu.

Thunderbird makes new folders without authorization (using pipe symbol)

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argarth
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Hello, I was playing around with new message filters and reorganizing my messages. After making a new filter thunderbird started making new folders that I've previously deleted. Now I can't delete them, because after opening thunderbird folders still exist and even more, they multiply. I've tried deleting them, deleting old filters, running without them, making new ones - all to no avail. Did anybody had the same issue?

Hello, I was playing around with new message filters and reorganizing my messages. After making a new filter thunderbird started making new folders that I've previously deleted. Now I can't delete them, because after opening thunderbird folders still exist and even more, they multiply. I've tried deleting them, deleting old filters, running without them, making new ones - all to no avail. Did anybody had the same issue?

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argarth
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sfhowes
sfhowes
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I think the root of your problem is using the pipe character, |, in folder names, which forces TB to create the folders with the 7b62... suffix.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Folders_disappear_if_they_have_invalid_filename_characters