How to remove "Local Folders" in Mozilla 1.7 Final

[John Corliss]

My thanks to "Rickles" in the netscape.mozilla.user.win32 newsgroup
for posting this solution and my thanks to Chris Ilias (Mozilla
Champion Netscape/Mozilla Links
<http://ilias.ca> *POSTING GUIDELINES*
<http://mozillachampions.mozdev.org/guidelines.html>) for coming up
with it! (note: for the sake of clarity, I've made some very minor
changes to Rickles' post.)
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There is a minor variation in the use of the steps that Holger Metzger
gave us so long ago to remove 'Local Folders' (for those of us who
don't want/need them.) What it boils down to is; you're not removing
*every* reference from the prefs.js file; you are ultimately
re-pointing one setting to your existing account of choice and losing
the rest. I have just done this one my system, and it works. I have
reprinted his solution here:

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Okay, I figured it out. It's a little more tricky than before, which I
suspect is due to multiple identity support.

- go through your account settings and make sure no other accounts are
pointing to your local folders.

[copies & folders -> drafts, sent, templates]

- Close Mozilla, and backup your prefs.js
- Delete the "Local Folders" folder in your "C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\username\sivckilt.slt\Mail" folder (where
username is your user name.)
- Open your prefs.js and find out which server number local folders is
assigned to. (probably #2)
- Using #2 as an example, delete all the corresponding lines that
begin with:

user_pref("mail.server.server2....

- Using a search tool to search the prefs.js, search for "server2"
(remember 2 is just an example here), you'll find which /account/
number is assigned to that server (to make sure, there should be no id
assigned to that account.) Delete that pref line, and remember the
account number.

- next is the line:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts"

Do not delete that line, but remove the section that refers to the
account number of your local folders. For instance, if your local
folders is account2:
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts","account1,account2,account3,account4");

will be changed to:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account3,account4");

- next look for the line:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");

Change the server number on that to one of the other servers numbers
already set up.

- save and close your prefs.js

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Since any new account additions cause Local Folders to be re-added
anyway, the elimination of them now doesn't hurt anything. If you feel
the need to use them in the future, then simply add another mail
account or newsgroup, and viola, LF is back. Change your folder
settings as you see fit. This makes it a user's individual choice,
which is what (I feel) the argument was all along. Choice had been
taken away. Hats off to Chris for the help.
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Took a lot of pissing and moaning from me to get this and I hope
somebody can use it. I did, and it works perfectly.

 

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My thanks to "Rickles" in the netscape.mozilla.user.win32 newsgroup
for posting this solution and my thanks to Chris Ilias (Mozilla
Champion

Heh, I just went over there to see how many of them were telling you
that you should not want to remove the folders. I saw what I
expected. If you have this trouble with future versions, maybe you
should ping Ilias to start with. Anyway, glad you got it done.

 

[Christopher Jahn]

Heh, I just went over there to see how many of them were
telling you that you should not want to remove the folders.
I saw what I expected.

It wouldn't have gotten so out of hand if John hadn't blown
the issue out of all reasonable proportion. The four other
times this request has come up in the last year, it only
elicited a few (under six) "why bother" responses. It usually
takes a day or two for updated instructions to get posted, and
that's what happened this time, too.



--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

My biology I know. You I worry about.

 

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It wouldn't have gotten so out of hand if John hadn't blown
the issue out of all reasonable proportion.

I agree. "Hate" in the subject line is probably not the best choice.

 

[Christopher Jahn]

I agree. "Hate" in the subject line is probably not the
best choice.

Then toss in "idiotic", "wasteful" and a few other similar
adjectives, and now you've got a recipe for a heated
discussion instead of a simple solution.

--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

I hope I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism.
(George Bush, in "New York Times", 17 January 1992)

 

[John Corliss]

And it came to pass that »Q« wrote:




Then toss in "idiotic", "wasteful" and a few other similar
adjectives, and now you've got a recipe for a heated
discussion instead of a simple solution.

I doubt that the solution would have been so immediately forthcoming
had I not acted that way. Regardless, my post there was inflamatory
and I apologized for it there. Let's let it drop, eh?

 

[John Corliss]

Heh, I just went over there to see how many of them were telling you
that you should not want to remove the folders. I saw what I
expected. If you have this trouble with future versions, maybe you
should ping Ilias to start with. Anyway, glad you got it done.

Yep, I would have contacted Chris had I known about the site he's on.
That's why I included the link in my OP to this thread.

The reason my post was so inflamatory is because my intention was to
establish this as an issue. I personally think that "Local Folders"
should be optional via Preferences. Although I posted my feature
request to the appropriate newsgroup on that server as well (forget
what the name is), that group doesn't appear to be very active at this
point.

And I really do *hate* Local Folders.