Apple Mail Folder Layout in Big Sur

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Apple Mail Folder Layout in Big Sur

Just upgraded to Big Sur and I'm noticing that the folder layout in Apple Mail has changed. I'm now seeing Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Junk, etc, under each mailbox, along with the folders I created, rather than just seeing them collected once at the top, under Favorites (formerly Mailboxes). I have multiple emails that I need to track and this is quite cumbersome. Did not see anything in Preferences to change this - is there somewhere else that this can be done?

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Posted on Feb 10, 2021 1:50 PM

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kthrynileen1 Author

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Feb 10, 2021 3:38 PM in response to Barney-15E

I meant to attach a screenshot before, apologies... I can see them in the Favorites area, that is not the issue. the folders are all duplicated in the mailboxes themselves... whereas they used to only display at the top under "Mailboxes" before. I don't have a before screenshot but I'm attaching what I see now.

Prior to the update, the mailboxes only displayed the additional folders that I created, not also Inbox, Trash, etc.

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Barney-15E

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Feb 10, 2021 3:29 PM in response to kthrynileen1

You have to click the + button on the right side of the Favorites header in the mailbox list.

From there you can add the "All whatever" mailboxes. However, that will not remove individual ones from the server folders.

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kthrynileen1 Author

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Feb 10, 2021 4:25 PM in response to Old Toad

Thank you - that is helpful but then I still have the folders under each mailbox as well. So there is the All Trash folder in Favorites and still Trash folders under each of my mailboxes... Is there a way to have the Trash folders only be displayed under All Trash and not also under each individual mailbox?

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kthrynileen1 Author

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Feb 10, 2021 5:58 PM in response to Barney-15E

Sorry - missed that. Thank you for the info!

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Feb 10, 2021 2:58 PM in response to kthrynileen1

???

I see this in my Favorites:

So there they are, collected together at the top. Isn't that what you wanted?

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Old Toad

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Feb 10, 2021 3:50 PM in response to kthrynileen1

Will this do what you want?

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Old Toad

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Feb 10, 2021 4:30 PM in response to kthrynileen1

If you do that for each of those accounts and mailboxes you should get something like this:

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kthrynileen1 Author

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Feb 10, 2021 4:56 PM in response to Old Toad

I did that... but they are still visible below so if I want to access folders at the bottom I have to scroll a lot further to get to them.

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kthrynileen1 Author

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Feb 10, 2021 3:40 PM in response to kthrynileen1

Point being that it now requires more scrolling to get to the folders I need. Sure, in the scheme of things not the worst thing in the world but if there is a way to modify this, it would be helpful.

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Barney-15E

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Feb 10, 2021 5:34 PM in response to kthrynileen1

I answered that a while back. You cannot remove them from the server folders.

Asking multiple times will not change the answer unless Apple changes it in some future update.

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Apple Mail Folder Layout in Big Sur

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