I can create a new root IMAP folder in OE6 on my work machine by right
clicking the IMAP account in the left pane and selecting new folder. I
do the same thing at home and the folder always ends up under the Inbox
as a sub folder. Both machines are running OE6 and WinXP. Any ideas
what the difference may be?

Thanks,
Brett

On 17 Jan 2006 09:19:00 -0800, brett wrote:

I can create a new root IMAP folder in OE6 on my work machine by right
clicking the IMAP account in the left pane and selecting new folder. I
do the same thing at home and the folder always ends up under the Inbox
as a sub folder. Both machines are running OE6 and WinXP. Any ideas
what the difference may be?

Thanks,
Brett

Hmmm. A new _root_ IMAP folder? Don't you have to create a new IMAP account
in order to do that? Other than that, the only thing that I can think of is
whether you are actually logged in on your IMAP server. AFAIK, you can't
create an IMAP folder unless you are logged in on the server.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:13:23 -0800, N. Miller wrote:

On 17 Jan 2006 09:19:00 -0800, brett wrote:

I can create a new root IMAP folder in OE6 on my work machine by right
clicking the IMAP account in the left pane and selecting new folder. I
do the same thing at home and the folder always ends up under the Inbox
as a sub folder. Both machines are running OE6 and WinXP. Any ideas
what the difference may be?

Thanks,
Brett

Hmmm. A new _root_ IMAP folder? Don't you have to create a new IMAP account
in order to do that? Other than that, the only thing that I can think of is
whether you are actually logged in on your IMAP server. AFAIK, you can't
create an IMAP folder unless you are logged in on the server.

After playing with my IMAP accounts, I am really stumped. If I right click
on the IMAP account name, the folder is created on the tree as a branch
from the account name. I can't induce the creation of a folder as an Inbox
subfolder in an IMAP account.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I really have no idea what the quack. I did a folder reset on the home
machine to get a new folder I created at work. That went fine. Then I
did a test folder creation. That went fine also. Maybe the folder
reset did it. Something qerky was going on.

Brett

"brett" wrote in message
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I can create a new root IMAP folder in OE6 on my work machine by right
clicking the IMAP account in the left pane and selecting new folder. I
do the same thing at home and the folder always ends up under the Inbox
as a sub folder. Both machines are running OE6 and WinXP. Any ideas
what the difference may be?

Thanks,
Brett


You can't create a root IMAP folder unless you create a new IMAP mail
account then of course you have to have the account already set up.

The only thing I can think of that happened was the Folders.dbx file may be
just confused enough to not place it correctly.It is what contains the
folder structure for all accounts.

Something you can do to test if it might be corrupt is to File | Folders |
Compact All and see if you get an error then move that dialog box out of the
way to see what file it was working on at the time. If it's Folders.dbx,
there is your problem. You would have close OE, navigate to the message
store folder then rename Folders.dbx to Folders.old then restart OE and let
it rebuild a new one.

Also, if this is the Main Identity, you may want to create a new Identity
and use it instead.

If I rename folders.dbx to folders.old and it creates a new one, how do
I get everything from folders.old into the new one?

Also, is periodically running Compact All a good maintenance? Will it
help avoid problems in other words?

Thanks,
Brett

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup.

brett wrote:
If I rename folders.dbx to folders.old and it creates a new one, how do
I get everything from folders.old into the new one?

Folders.dbx is not a file that contains messages. IOW, there's nothing to
"get" from the old one to put into the new one. (By closing OE and deleting
or renaming FOlders.dbx, you will lose the mail tree structure, all lists of
newsgroups, and all synchronization options, and any message rules will
likely need to be edited.)

Also, is periodically running Compact All a good maintenance? Will it
help avoid problems in other words?

Yes, it's a MUST. General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

- Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if
Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

"brett" wrote in message
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If I rename folders.dbx to folders.old and it creates a new one, how do
I get everything from folders.old into the new one?


The structure of the mail folders (names and location (subfolder type, etc),
available newsgroups for each news account and subcscriubed newsgroups for
each news account are what is in Folders.dbx. Other than that, there is
nothing you want to get from it.


Also, is periodically running Compact All a good maintenance? Will it
help avoid problems in other words?


Only after a good backup would I compact. While in most cases it does
fullfills it's purpose, remove old data from the dbx files, it can screw up
the whole thing. Personally I"ve seen a compact lose all messages. That's
where a good backup comes in handy or a good recovery program.

"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On 17 Jan 2006 09:19:00 -0800, brett wrote:

I can create a new root IMAP folder in OE6 on my work machine by right
clicking the IMAP account in the left pane and selecting new folder. I
do the same thing at home and the folder always ends up under the Inbox
as a sub folder. Both machines are running OE6 and WinXP. Any ideas
what the difference may be?

Thanks,
Brett

Hmmm. A new _root_ IMAP folder? Don't you have to create a new IMAP
account
in order to do that? Other than that, the only thing that I can think of
is
whether you are actually logged in on your IMAP server. AFAIK, you can't
create an IMAP folder unless you are logged in on the server.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum