Re: Balsa mailboxes

[David Elwell <elwell1 verizon net>]

On 12/29/2007 10:50:04 PM, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> On 12/29/2007 09:45:08 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > On 12/28/2007 03:45:10 PM, David Elwell wrote:
> > > For the past few years, one of my maildir mailboxes shows each
> > > submailbox twice, as duplicates, even though the actual directory
> > > structure contains just one folder for each.
> Same problem here. Some of the directories this happens with contain
> sub-dirs. When starting Balsa, the sub-dir entries are duplicated as
> well, and if the sub-dir happens to be open, duplicate entries of
> mailboxes are shown for both instances of the subdirs, like this:
> 
> Main Folder
> 	Dir A
> 		Open Subdir
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox B
> 			Mbox B
> 		Open Subdir
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox B
> 			Mbox B
> 	Dir B
> 		Closed Subdir
> 		Closed Subdir
> 		Mbox C
> 		Mbox C
> 		Mbox D
> 		Mbox D
> 
> 
> > I have no immediate solutions...
> Rightclicking on a folder and "Rescan" seems to help. After 
> rescanning
> "Dir A", the duplicate sub-dir entry is gone, but the entries inside
> "Open Subdir" are still duplicates, so one has to rescan "Open 
> Subdir"
> as well:
> 
> Main Folder
> 	Dir A
> 		Open Subdir
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox A
> 			Mbox B
> 			Mbox B
> 
Thanks for the tip! The rescan worked, but it doesn't stick. Each time 
I open balsa, the duplicate mailboxes appear, but rescan clears them 
up.

> >I would start from checking whether
> > your ~/.balsa/config file contains something unusual. Are these
> > mailboxes mentioned there explicitly or discovered on the fly?
> 
> I didn't find anything strange in my config. If you want to, I could
> send it to you privately for inspection.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Andreas
> 
>