I have a lot of folders in a large heirarchy. I seem to have dragged a folder to an unkown position in the heirarchy. I know it's still there because I can search for and find emails that are in the folder. How can I find where the folder is in the heirarchy so I can put it back where it belongs?

You can find it in an entry in the HIERARCH.PM file. I suggest making a copy of HIERARCH.PM and working with the copy.

• Open the file with a text editor
• Do a Ctrl+F search of the folder name that you are looking for, or a unique portion of it
• Entries in HIERARCH.PM are in the form:0,0,"U12CGKH7:6C1E:FOL03D5F","0851582:TrayName","FolderName"so once you have a hit, look at the "TrayName" field for the name of the parent tray.

It is important to note here that duplicate named folders can disappear from the folder list. Oddly, this can happen out of the blue. Duplicate named folders can exist for awhile without issue, until they don't. They still exist and searches will find content within them. If you think you have a duplicate folder name issue you can continue the folder name search through the rest of HIERARCH.PM to see if there are any other hits.

Be very careful with HIERARCH.PM. Damage to the original can result in the loss of your entire tray structure.

Thanks for that Brian. All sorted.

I was already working with hierarch.pm but was misled by the folder names in the parent field. They don't seem to get updated if the parent field name is updated (v4.73).

Do you have a definition for the file formats at all? I found one on the net but it doesn't see to be current.

I also came across a reference to mbxmaint.exe. Is there a list of such tools indicating what they do and how to use them?

Thanks again,

Paul.

No, not file formats. The best source of information I know of is Han's webpage here:
http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/han_lkfr.htm
and this forum.

Not that I know of. We lost the repository of utilities when we lost the old community forum. Many are no longer available for download but forum members may be able to provide them. Regarding mbxmaint.exe, forget about it. Look at mbxmaint_ui.exe instead. It is a mailbox folder maintenance utility that can be run outside of Pegasus Mail. This is handy for network admins maintaining a multi-user Pegasus Mail installation. It is valuable for single user installations as well. The "_ui" version has a user interface that makes using the utility self-explanatory.

That's brilliant Brian.

Thank you.