Folders and subfolders ALL opened each time I restart Windows!

[Alain]

Hi!

Each time I start Windows Mail again, ALL my (150 or so!) folders and
subfolders are opened (unfolded)!!! This drives me crazy...

Apparently, this does not happen when I close my folders, close Windows Mail
and start it again, but only when the system is restarted (not set into
sleeping state with Windows Mail staying open, but really restarted).

I have even unchecked the option to automatically open the folders with
unread messages, though I would like this one to work like in OE, but it did
not suppress the problem.

I cannot find another option to NOT develop the folders...

99% of my messages were imported from OE, if it may be a clue...

Thanks for your help in solving this pb!

 

[Alain]

I wrote :
« Each time I start Windows Mail again, ALL my (150 or so!) folders and
subfolders are opened (unfolded)!!! This drives me crazy... »

Shall I suppose that it has been designed that way, to meet the needs of a
majority of users? With no option to collapse the subfolderss when they
don't contain any unread message?
It is so long to scroll down my subfolders when there are all opened all the
time!!!

 

[Alain]

VistaRookie wrote :
"If all the messages are read and there are no unread
emails, the folders should stay shut."

.... and t-4-2 wrote :
« If all sub-folders are collapse when you close the program, they
remain collapsed when you open the program. »

That's the behaviour I am expecting, but it doesn't work!!! Am I the only
victim of a rare bug???

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

VistaRookie wrote :
"If all the messages are read and there are no unread
emails, the folders should stay shut."

... and t-4-2 wrote :
« If all sub-folders are collapse when you close the program, they
remain collapsed when you open the program. »

That's the behaviour I am expecting, but it doesn't work!!! Am I the only
victim of a rare bug???

It appears so. Since reinstalling Vista would be a big chore, I recommend
you upgrade to Windows Live Mail:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Alain]

Gary VanderMolen wrote :
"Since reinstalling Vista would be a big chore, I recommend
you upgrade to Windows Live Mail"

I will give it a look. But since I need no more "fun" but on the contrary
more basic professional functionality, I doubt if it is the best software!
:-(

I have already imported all my messages, address book but also signatures
and rules into Windows Mail, I hope that Windows Live Mail would do it
automatically?

If it is to be the mail standard in the next version of Windows, it might be
interesting to get accustomed to it now! All the more so if the bugs of
Windows Mail are not corrected any longer? (I get at least one crash per
day, usually while doing very plain things!)

 

[mac]

If it is to be the mail standard in the next version of Windows, it might
be
interesting to get accustomed to it now! All the more so if the bugs of
Windows Mail are not corrected any longer? (I get at least one crash per
day, usually while doing very plain things!)

The next version of Windows, W7, does not have a mail client built in.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows 7, which I'm currently beta testing, will not come with
an email client, but it will have a prominent download link for
Windows Live Mail. Windows Mail will not run on Windows 7.

When you install Windows Live Mail, it will automatically import
all your settings and data from Windows Mail.

 

[Alain]

« Since reinstalling Vista would be a big chore, I recommend
you upgrade to Windows Live Mail: »

I have just done so, but it has the same bug! - but with a few folders
staying closed...

Perhaps should I recreate all the folders, if this behaviour affects only
folders imported from OE???