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luckycrazyhorse
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Move To or Copy to "Recent"

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I read somewhere the number of folders available in the Recent box is hard coded to a maximum of 15. For some reason, mine seems to be limited to 9. When I move a message out of an Inbox into a storage folder that's different than any of the 9 already in the Recent box, the last one bumps another folder off the list and it remains at nine. Is there a setting somewhere that allows me to adjust upwards from 9?

My Thunderbird is 91.12.0 64 bit. OS is Win 10 Pro
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luckycrazyhorse wrote:I read somewhere the number of folders available in the Recent box is hard coded to a maximum of 15. For some reason, mine seems to be limited to 9. When I move a message out of an Inbox into a storage folder that's different than any of the 9 already in the Recent box, the last one bumps another folder off the list and it remains at nine. Is there a setting somewhere that allows me to adjust upwards from 9?

My Thunderbird is 91.12.0 64 bit. OS is Win 10 Pro
I think your statement is correct - limit of 15 -- but I wouldn't know how to fix that. See item No. 14 on this page from tanstaafl post.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Limits_-_Thunderbird
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Try changing the mail.folder_widget.max_recent pref. (default 25)

Similar thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3087526
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Re: Move To or Copy to "Recent"

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morat wrote:Try changing the mail.folder_widget.max_recent pref. (default 25)

Similar thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3087526
Thanks. That change makes no sense to me but I did try the Quick Folder Move add-on you mentioned in the other thread. That will allow me to generate a list of just about any number of Move To folders but it seems to knows every folder I've ever moved a message to and fills the list accordingly. I tried 100 and it fills it full. I wish there was a way to edit the Quick Folder Move To list to get a fresh start. I'll start with 15 and try to refill the list with the folders that I really want to see in there.

If that doesn't work I guess I'll go back to my old way of moving to Recents and Favorites even though that's poor.

Edit: I edited out what probably was a mis-statement.
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You could ask the developer on the support site.

Quick Folder Move
http://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/12018
http://github.com/kewisch/quickmove-extension/issues

I would guess the app (and addon) uses the panacea.dat file to store the folders in Thunderbird 91.

AFAIK, you can safely delete the panacea.dat file and the app would recreate it on startup.
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An interesting thing happened. When I finally gave up on the non-alphabetical and uncontrollable mess Quick Folder Move makes and went back to the old way, I saw my Recents list was expanded from the original 9 to the hard-coded max of 15 spaces. I simply refilled that list with the folders I move messages into on a regular basis. It's a tidy, alphabetical list that still has two filler positions I can use when I need to. I'm happy with this. Thanks for the tip that ended up being my fix!
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mail.folder_widget.max_recent has worked well for several years I wrote the bug report, and the value change takes immediate effect.
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