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Email folders and collapsing them

Hello,

I am sure this may of been posted before but I cannot find a post relating to this.

Within my email I have 100+ folders (through exhange 2003) and they are all fully expanded, is there a way to collapse them as it is a real pain scrolling through them all. Is it a feature missing from the iPhone or a problem with the version of exchange.

thanks

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Posted on Nov 25, 2010 2:45 AM

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Jan 1, 2011 10:09 AM in response to Silentbob1978

As of Jan 1, 2011 I have found no way to collapse nested folders on the iPhone (any of them, including iPhone 4). I use Exchange to sync with my iPhone.

So here's what I did. Granted it's a kludge, but more effective than scrolling for ever. On my PC, I organized by email by year (ie. top-level folders for 2009, 2010, and now 2011, with nested folders below each as appropriate for those years). Then named the top-level folders, 2011, yy-2010, and zz-2009. Exchange sorts the prior years to the bottom, things sync with iPhone, and the top-level (2011) is now at the top with it's expanded sub-folders. Sure all the folder are expanded, but 2010 and 2009 are so far down there, you'll never see them, unless you have to.

I hope this little kludge doesn't cause Apple not to ever fix this obvious 'productivity' and 'completeness' concern.

Cheers, Happy New Year!

Nov 18, 2011 11:54 AM in response to Silentbob1978

We are at iOS 5 now and I'm still waiting for this feature since iOS 1 on the very first iPhone.


I have 500+ Folders and subfolders in 5-6 levels.

It is a real pain to scroll 500 folders down to just check the 'sent' folder. What is even worse is to find a specific folder somewhere in the middle of the pile.

I have barely any skin on my indexfinger left!

Is anybody @ Apple using an iPhone or an iPad? How is this even possible that this is still not fixed after 5 years?

Isn't collapsing folders a standard feature in the OS which should require only 2 hours of coding to get it into the mail app?


Look, I really love the Apple stuff, I changed my whole department to Apple products and my home looks like an Apple store. I even crazy enough to have the Apple sticker on my car.

But the absence of this little standard feature is a real pain!


Kind Regards,



Sascha

Nov 28, 2011 8:19 AM in response to Sascha from Verdugo Woodlands

Hi Sascha


Like you my home and office resemble an Apple store and I have all my staff on Apple products but sometimes Apple are infuriating. How can ANYONE at Apple be using their devices for any type of business application and not have encountered this ??? they must have and then to ignore it smacks of complacency something I feel has been creeping into Apple for a while .... I said in another post I have started looking at other solutions now especially for mobile. I pay fortunes for Apple products and they should deliver what my business needs, these are basic functions and as another poster states they have been waiting for this from IOS1 we are on 5 now !!!


Android is catching up .......

Dec 9, 2011 3:54 PM in response to Silentbob1978

I cannot believe Apple arent taking this feature seriously. Comon guys... just make these folders collapse. Any professional is going to carry a couple of emails around with them (i personally have about 5-6!) and literally thousands of sub folders.


The default view is expanded all folders. At least on the ipad2 you can navigate to individual accounts, on the iphone it seems you cant even do this!


What a joke!


Apple - please fix this or at least provide some feedback as to what you plan to do around this.


If any app developers can make a work around in the mean time they'd make a small fortune I'm sure.


Love my ipad, love my iphone, hate this massive shortcoming.

Email folders and collapsing them

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