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

[Ralph]

On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 11:49:00 +0530
Jim Pachowski <jimmy.patch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ok, that's sounds good.  I'll try the 32-bit.

> 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.

And... a solution to my exact question.  This would work fine.

Thanks very much, Jim!

Ralph

> 
> 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.
> >