Re: Removing folders...

[Wesley Sheldahl <wsheldahl qx net>]

On 2001.02.13 06:53 Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2001-02-12 15:00 Christian Bockermann wrote:
> > I inspected the code which is executed, when a folder is deleted.

snip

> > When you delete a folder in balsa-1.1.1 the entry is removed from the
> > mblist but the GUI is not updated. I added a line for this to be done
> > [PATCH]
> > So now, when you remove a folder from the list, it is removed from the
> > GUI, too. Restarting balsa brings the folder back to life again. 
> 
> So it seems the respective section from the configuration file is not
> removed.

> > My knowledge of balsa is very little, so I don't really know, how to do
> > "removing" a folder. This thing of course does only occur when removing
> > the folder from list only. 
> > A possible solution (my favorite) would be to mark the file on some
way,
> > and add an attribute like visible=0 or 1 to each mblist-item. Therefore
> > removing folder from list-only, would mean to set visible=0 and perhaps
rename
> > the file (would perhaps lead to difficulties with procmail?)

Would it make sense to store the "visibility" information in the
configuration file with other file information, rather than try to mess
with the file itself?  Might be a little more complex to maintain, but
wouldn't interfere with procmail.


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Wes Sheldahl
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