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Archive folder--can't delete

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I have several accounts in Thunderbird. I have never (intentionally) used the archive option. Yet, one of my accounts now has an Archive folder that I cannot delete. No option exists when right clicking the folder and I cannot drag it to the trash. It has no emails in it, and never has. Its possible its been there a while and I just didn't notice, bu AFAIK its new.

I have gone to Account Settings Copies & Folders...and the "Keep Message Archives in:" is unchecked. Further, I checked all accounts to see if one of those might be 'checked'...just with a folder specified in a different (wrong) account. Not it.

I've restarted. I'm at a loss as to how to clean this up.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thunderbird 144.01...that I upgraded to 145.0 when checking the version to report here. No change.

I have several accounts in Thunderbird. I have never (intentionally) used the archive option. Yet, one of my accounts now has an Archive folder that I cannot delete. No option exists when right clicking the folder and I cannot drag it to the trash. It has no emails in it, and never has. Its possible its been there a while and I just didn't notice, bu AFAIK its new. I have gone to Account Settings Copies & Folders...and the "Keep Message Archives in:" is unchecked. Further, I checked all accounts to see if one of those might be 'checked'...just with a folder specified in a different (wrong) account. Not it. I've restarted. I'm at a loss as to how to clean this up. Any help would be appreciated. Thunderbird 144.01...that I upgraded to 145.0 when checking the version to report here. No change.

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right click the folder select properties and then take note of the real folder name as the last part of the location string.

My guess is it is a Google account and the real name will be all mail, but it really could be any mail provider I am just playing the odds in my comments.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998456

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Matt
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Vahaolana Nofidina

right click the folder select properties and then take note of the real folder name as the last part of the location string.

My guess is it is a Google account and the real name will be all mail, but it really could be any mail provider I am just playing the odds in my comments.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998456

thunderbirder
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It was actually a Pop3 account (not google). However, I went to the profile folder and searched "archive", and found both a archives.msf and a archives (no extension) file with dates of yesterday associated to a generically named account--and not ones for all similar accounts. So I deleted both files and opened Thunderbird and the folder is gone. So this did solve the problem...and hopefully didn't create a new one!

Thank you Matt.

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