Re: how do I create folders in Mail? -- SOLVED

[Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]]

I solved my own problem -- sorry about the noise.

Although the "old" way did not work, I found a new way, which now seems fairly 
obvious.

First I create a new mailbox (called NewFolder) by clicking the plus sign at 
the bottom left.  I found instructions that said I could then create a second 
new mailbox within that first new mailbox (folder) by clicking on the first one 
and again clicking on the plus sign, but the first new mailbox is greyed out in 
the pop-up menu and cannot be selected.  However, if I simply create a second 
new mailbox (called NewBox), then both NewFolder and NewBox appear at the first 
level under On My Mac.  I can then drag NewBox onto NewFolder and the former 
becomes a mailbox within the latter (i.e., goes to the second level), as I 
wanted.

I should have investigated more before asking.

Thanks,

Gregg

> On Dec 27, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the Apple Mail app, I can click the plus sign in the lower left corner of 
> the main window to create a new mailbox.  For example, I can add a new 
> mailbox called "NewBox" by entering that text.
> 
> Not too long ago, I could add a new folder and a new mailbox by entering 
> "NewFolder/NewBox".  This would create a folder called "NewFolder" with a 
> triangle to the left of it.  If I clicked the triangle, I would see a mailbox 
> called "NewBox" within that folder.
> 
> Now under Yosemite (10.10.5), and I assume under El Capitan, entering 
> "NewFolder/NewBox" does nothing.  It does not create a new folder containing 
> a new mailbox, nor does it even create a new mailbox.
> 
> I can still create a single new mailbox in the On My Mac section of the Mail 
> sidebar, but how do I create a new folder?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregg

___
MacOSX-talk mailing list
MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: how do I create folders in Mail? -- SOLVED

[Macs R We]

Creation of mailboxes in the newer versions of Mail is unfortunately contextual 
– the mailbox gets created in whatever section you last highlighted some other 
mailbox. And, as you discovered, you can no longer create a mailbox inside 
another mailbox by highlighting it – you have to create it first as a brother 
and slide it in later.

What is really unfortunate about the way mail does this is that the "folder" 
mailbox is a true mailbox itself, not just a folder. If you accidentally drag 
and drop mail to the "folder" itself instead of one of its submailboxes, you 
can effectively lose it if you don't expect there to be any mail resident 
there.  (Search will find it, of course, but your mind won't.)

In earlier versions of Mail, it was possible to go into ~/Library/Mail, find 
the "folder," and physically rip the mailbox-ish guts out of it, whereupon the 
next time you started Mail, Mail would realize that it was indeed a true 
folder, and show it in white instead of blue.  I haven't had occasion to do 
that in several releases, so I don't know if it would still work.


> On Dec 27, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
>  wrote:
> 
> I solved my own problem -- sorry about the noise.
> 
> Although the "old" way did not work, I found a new way, which now seems 
> fairly obvious.
> 
> First I create a new mailbox (called NewFolder) by clicking the plus sign at 
> the bottom left.  I found instructions that said I could then create a second 
> new mailbox within that first new mailbox (folder) by clicking on the first 
> one and again clicking on the plus sign, but the first new mailbox is greyed 
> out in the pop-up menu and cannot be selected.  However, if I simply create a 
> second new mailbox (called NewBox), then both NewFolder and NewBox appear at 
> the first level under On My Mac.  I can then drag NewBox onto NewFolder and 
> the former becomes a mailbox within the latter (i.e., goes to the second 
> level), as I wanted.
> 
> I should have investigated more before asking.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregg
> 
>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In the Apple Mail app, I can click the plus sign in the lower left corner of 
>> the main window to create a new mailbox.  For example, I can add a new 
>> mailbox called "NewBox" by entering that text.
>> 
>> Not too long ago, I could add a new folder and a new mailbox by entering 
>> "NewFolder/NewBox".  This would create a folder called "NewFolder" with a 
>> triangle to the left of it.  If I clicked the triangle, I would see a 
>> mailbox called "NewBox" within that folder.
>> 
>> Now under Yosemite (10.10.5), and I assume under El Capitan, entering 
>> "NewFolder/NewBox" does nothing.  It does not create a new folder containing 
>> a new mailbox, nor does it even create a new mailbox.
>> 
>> I can still create a single new mailbox in the On My Mac section of the Mail 
>> sidebar, but how do I create a new folder?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Gregg
> 
> ___
> MacOSX-talk mailing list
> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com
> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

___
MacOSX-talk mailing list
MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk