[Users] Duplicated sub-folders after Rebuild-Folder-Tree

[Jim Pachowski]

1. Use the 32-bit version. I found no reason to use 64-bit version.
The 64-bit libraries are a bit unreliable. Your crashes are probably
because of how they are behaving. 32-bit is solid.

2. There is a bug in the Windows version that "adds" instead of
"replacing" folders when doing a folder re-build. The simplest
solution is to open up folderlist.xml in a text editor and remove
everything but the first three and last two lines in the file, save
it, and start Claws again. It will tell you your mailbox is corrupted
and ask you to build the folder tree again. If you remove
folderlist.xml & .bak files it will ask you to set-up an account. You
do not want that. Also, if you do this often enough, keep a copy of
the 5-line empty folderlist.xml handy to do the switcheroo every time
instead of editing the .xml file by hand.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:47 AM Ralph <suselist at cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Windows 10 + 3.17.4 (64-bit)
>
> I've used claws on linux for decade+ but this is a first on windows and
> I encountered a weird problem.  After running a Rebuild Folder Tree I
> have duplicates of all my mail subfolders in the Folder list along with
> duplicates of the subfolder's mail contents.  Structure like this...
>
> Folder1
>   Subfolder1
>   Subfolder1
>
> Folder2
>   Subfolder2
>     Subfolder2a of Subfolder2
>   Subfolder2
>     Subfolder2a of Subfolder2
>
> ...etc
>
> The folders without subfolders at the top-most level appear normal.
>
> If I delete one of any of the duplicated subfolders and run Rebuild
> again, both the duplicate and the original are gone.
>
> This is not good :(  Any ideas?  Thanks.
>
> Ralph
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