This is my current storage directory for THUNDERBIRD: (on my nearly brand-new PC workstation!) C:\Users\davidlew\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\409424bt.default\Mail\pop.shaw.ca All of it's folder-icons in the left-most column are mute/empty/unresponsive... Others that I would like to "fold in" to this identity are located in analogous file-paths such as: niser0eab.Davidlew and zf1bouv3.default --inside each of these three setups such as: C:\Users\davidlew\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\409424bt.default\Mail\pop.shaw.ca and C:\Users\davidlew\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\zf1bouv3.default\ and C:\Users\davidlew\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\niser0eab.Davidlew.default\Mail\pop.shaw.ca .....each of these three setups contain the "same"set(s) of subfolders: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= panacea.dat parent.lock permissions.sqlite persdict.dat places.sqlite pluginreg.dat prefs.js saved-telemetry-pings search.json secmod.db sessionCheckpoints.json signons.sqlite Telemetry.ShutdownTime.txt times.json training.dat traits.dat virtualFolders.dat webappsstore.sqlite xpunge-extension-prefmigration-existing-new-prefs.txt xpunge-extension-prefmigration-old-prefs.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ---However, NONE of these message-organizing sub-folders ACTIVELY show up within Thunderbird... ALL of them seem to show "ghost" copies of the folders and subafolder---in the left-column folder-list view window but they are mute and unresponsive, and do not SHOW the .emlx messages contained within them.... Drilling into the PC's filing-system (Window Explorer, like Apple's FINDER) does show that the indiv. emlx. mail files DO exist and ARE readable as plain-text----ugly as hell with header information aond other control characters framing the text-message contents. How do I "shuffle together" (merge?) the various user-folders into ONE user folder, without overwriting folders and messages? How do I resurrect the functionality of the "ghost" folder icons in the left-most column? Such that clicking on a folder with show it's contents, or expand to show it's SUB-folders... Please Advise! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Best regards, David A. Lewis a.k.a. "themacguy" ihelp-mac@shaw.ca