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Why does a local folder get highlighted in blue and have a * on it?

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The local folders are 24 in number. Number 10 with a unique name, the name turns blue. The folder symbol that is normally a 3D folder symbol has an sun looking dot in the upper right corner of the icon. Normally a dark black of the name means a file is stored there to read. A filter stored it there. Or manually placed there. Now this turns blue and with the icon like the inbox is blue(number) and the download looking icon has the sun in the upper corner. What is going on with the local folder ? Here is my specs. Sorry for the length.


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The local folders are 24 in number. Number 10 with a unique name, the name turns blue. The folder symbol that is normally a 3D folder symbol has an sun looking dot in the upper right corner of the icon. Normally a dark black of the name means a file is stored there to read. A filter stored it there. Or manually placed there. Now this turns blue and with the icon like the inbox is blue(number) and the download looking icon has the sun in the upper corner. What is going on with the local folder ? Here is my specs. Sorry for the length. WARNING: This contains sensitive information which shouldn't be forwarded or published without permission. Application Basics Name: Thunderbird Version: 38.7.2 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 Profile Folder: C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\jfsg2bmj.default (Local drive) Application Build ID: 20160402193654 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Memory Use: about:memory Mail and News Accounts account1: INCOMING: account1, Local Folders, (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext account2: INCOMING: account2, news account, (nntp) news80.forteinc.com:119, plain, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: mail.consolidated.net:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true account3: INCOMING: account3, lionslair@consolidated.net , (imap) mail.consolidated.net:143, plain, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: mail.consolidated.net:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true Crash Reports Extensions Lightning, 4.0.7.2, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} Important Modified Preferences Name: Value 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I've stopped noticing these things, so this is a bit of a guess.

Blue means there are new (or maybe unread) messages. A number tells you how many messages there are, and there are at least two such numbers, total and unread. You can set which of these are shown by means of a tiny square button in the top right corner.

The asterisk means that some or all of the unread messages are not in the visible top-level folder but may be found in subfolders.

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I've stopped noticing these things, so this is a bit of a guess.

Blue means there are new (or maybe unread) messages. A number tells you how many messages there are, and there are at least two such numbers, total and unread. You can set which of these are shown by means of a tiny square button in the top right corner.

The asterisk means that some or all of the unread messages are not in the visible top-level folder but may be found in subfolders.

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I just went into that folder. No sub folders. I read (stepped through) each file in the folder. When I went into the folder the blue turned off. No (num) in the file name as in other folders that I'm used to. (Not a rookie). Just now after going to this inbox again, the name turned blue and with a *. None of the other folders do this. The next step is to start deleting messages and backing out to see if the 20 or 30 messages has a issue. I know blue(num) and normal black names. Inbox(23) has 23 unread. If I find what does it or what I did to make it go away I'll report what I did and maybe you will understand what else to look at in the code.

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This one should help define the issue. I created a new folder. I slowly, by moving 10-20 at a time moved the ENTIRE folder contents to the new folder. The old folder is now COMPLETELY empty and is still changing from black to blue with a star but without a number. Never had a number. The new folder is black and hasn't changed. The folder itself is now suspected. I can read and write to the folder. I don't know what else I can try without deleting the folder. Maybe a RENAME. Maybe the name is some keywords. It is called "Local Range" two words with upper lower. A screen capture showing the name (no number) and the * the folder below it - called LRANGE2 contains the exact contents that Local Range had. Ok I busted it. If I rename the folder to "Local RangeXX" it doesn't turn blue. When I renamed it by taking the XX off "Local Range" it turns blue and with a *. No paren with numbers. No file contents. Empty folder. Those must be 'reserved words' or local symbols. What is it ???

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I went into the help folder - about - and found I was using version 38.7.2 and I was on an update channel... Now I have 45.0 and the folder "Local Range" is black and doesn't turn blue anymore. I got an email that was moved there, turned blue(1) and when I read it the name went black. So it is functional in 45.0 but for some reason the updates didn't install just downloaded and left be with perhaps patches that didn't match. A major upgrade seemed to sync everything in the tool once again. Thank you for the thoughts and help. I posted a picture last message. You can see what I was noticing. Best regards, Martin