Making a sub-folder a folder.
This just happened and I don't know why/how.
I created two folders into which I put emails I want to keep/separate; let's call them "Personal" and "Books". This week I lost "Books". Gone! Looking around I clicked on on "Personal" - and there was "Books".
I don't want "Books" as a sub-folder. How do I get "Books" back as a folder?
(Windows 8.1, Thunderbird 45.1.0)
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Thank you, Airmail, but I tried that. Every drag-and-drop I attempted did not work; the folder would pop right back to where it was as a sub-folder.
But I did this based on your reply: I did a drag-and-drop TO "Local Folders" - and it worked! But now I had two "Books", one under my Verizon email, and another in Local Folders.
So I did it again, this time not a drag-and-drop to where I wanted it, but to the Thunderbird "Account Name" - and it worked! It made "Books" a stand-alone folder. And now I had three folders, and deleted two of them.
The lesson from this is that once Thunderbird creates a folder you cannot change THE ORDER in which it is displayed on the side panel. Try to move "Drafts" to below "Sent", and nothing will happen. The order is the order.
Thanks again.
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Drag and drop the Books folder where you want it.
For example if you made both new folders under Local Folders, drag Books back up to Local Folders and drop it there.
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Thank you, Airmail, but I tried that. Every drag-and-drop I attempted did not work; the folder would pop right back to where it was as a sub-folder.
But I did this based on your reply: I did a drag-and-drop TO "Local Folders" - and it worked! But now I had two "Books", one under my Verizon email, and another in Local Folders.
So I did it again, this time not a drag-and-drop to where I wanted it, but to the Thunderbird "Account Name" - and it worked! It made "Books" a stand-alone folder. And now I had three folders, and deleted two of them.
The lesson from this is that once Thunderbird creates a folder you cannot change THE ORDER in which it is displayed on the side panel. Try to move "Drafts" to below "Sent", and nothing will happen. The order is the order.
Thanks again.
So you wanted it to be a folder under you main account so you drag and drop it on your account. That is how it works. Local Folders is a special account. So when you drop it on the ACCOUNT it becomes a folder under that account.
If you want to change the order the folders display then install Manually Sort Folders add on but that is an entirely different question.