Outlook Express - Local Folders

[moggie 939]

Rojash (or anyone else who might help)

You assisted me earlier this month. Just one further thing I cannot fathom out.

I have a number of folders that appear when I click on an email then click 'move to'. Most of them can be seen all the time in a list, but on one or two of them I have to click on the plus sign by them to view other folders. I can't understand why as when I made a new folder for say 'my PC' I expected it to show all the time.

Is there any way that I can have all these local folders showing so that I don't have to keep clicking on plus sign and therefore just have a straightforward alphabetical list?

Thanks again

Moggie

[Buenchico]

Example:

If I right-click on 'Local Folders' (in the Folders pane) and then click 'New Folder', it will create the new folder at the same level in the directory as 'Inbox' and other first-level local folders. If I try to move a mail to the new folder, that folder will appear alongside folders like Inbox.

However, if I right click on 'Inbox' and then click 'New folder', it will create the new folder inside the Inbox. (i.e. it will be a 'second level' folder). If I try to move an email to the the new folder, it won't appear in the initial list, because that list only shows first level folders. 'Inbox' will now have a '+' sign next to it, to indicate that it contains one or more subfolders.

It seems that you've created some of your new folders as 'first level' and some as 'second level' (e.g. as subfolders contained within first level folders).

To move your folders to the correct level, do this:
In the folders pane, click on a folder which has got '+' next to it. That will show any subfolders. To move a folder to the top level, simply click on it and (while holding the mouse key down) drag the folder on top of 'Local folders'.

Chris

[moggie 939]

Thanks so much Chris - yes I had been doing what you said. Now sorted!


Moggie