Generally when I wish to save a newsgroup of search, I save it as a
sub-folder of "Local Folders". If I right-click on it, SeaMonkey
displays an option to delete that particular sub-folder. That's *GOOD*.

I recently goofed.
I saved it as a sub-folder of the newsgroup being searched.
Right-clicking does *NOT* give me the option to delete that sub-folder.

As I've had some problems related to the particular news server
involved, I will not attempt to resolve by unsubscribing/re-subscribing.

Where/how is that sub-folder stored?
Is there a purely local machine solution to my problem?

Thank you.

On 03/01/2024 11:01, Richard Owlett wrote:> Generally when I wish to
save a newsgroup of search, I save it as a
> sub-folder of "Local Folders". If I right-click on it, SeaMonkey
> displays an option to delete that particular sub-folder. That's *GOOD*.
>
> I recently goofed.
> I saved it as a sub-folder of the newsgroup being searched.
> Right-clicking does *NOT* give me the option to delete that sub-folder.

In 2.53.18 I wasn't offered the opportunity to save a search folder to a
Newsgroup: only my network and local email folders were listed ion the
pull-down. The New [Sub]Folder... context menu item is not available for
newsgroup folders.

> ...
> Where/how is that sub-folder stored?
> Is there a purely local machine solution to my problem?

I'm sure there is. Have a look in the News subdirectory of your active
SM profile (while not using the profile). There should be a subdirectory
representing the NNTP server. Inside that directory, there should be a
subdirectory, probably with a .sbd extension, corresponding to your
search. Try moving that to a safe place away from the profile.

If that works (after starting SM with the profile), you can delete the
saved errant directory; or if you still wanted the search folder you
could delete the saved directory and re-create the folder as the right
subfolder; or possibly copying the saved subdirectory into the .sbd
directory representing the desired point in the Mail/Local Folders
hierarchy would have the effect of moving it there.

/df

--
London
UK

On 2024-01-03, Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:

> On 03/01/2024 11:01, Richard Owlett wrote:> Generally when I wish to
> save a newsgroup of search, I save it as a
>> sub-folder of "Local Folders". If I right-click on it, SeaMonkey
>> displays an option to delete that particular sub-folder. That's *GOOD*.
>>
>> I recently goofed.
>> I saved it as a sub-folder of the newsgroup being searched.
>> Right-clicking does *NOT* give me the option to delete that sub-folder.
>
> In 2.53.18 I wasn't offered the opportunity to save a search folder to a
> Newsgroup: only my network and local email folders were listed ion the
> pull-down. The New [Sub]Folder... context menu item is not available for
> newsgroup folders.

Both 2.49.5 and a 2.53.18b1pre I have around behave that way: you can't
select a newsgroup to save the search as a subfolder.

But, in both, if I don't select a folder, the new search folder is
created as a subfolder of (I suppose) the currently selected folder, so
I was able to have search folders show up as subfolders of newsgroups by
not selecting a folder in "Create as a subfolder of".

But I think I see a "Delete" entry in the context menu for these search
folders, so I need to test more.

--
Nuno Silva

On 2024-01-03, Nuno Silva wrote:

> On 2024-01-03, Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:
>
>> On 03/01/2024 11:01, Richard Owlett wrote:> Generally when I wish to
>> save a newsgroup of search, I save it as a
>>> sub-folder of "Local Folders". If I right-click on it, SeaMonkey
>>> displays an option to delete that particular sub-folder. That's *GOOD*.
>>>
>>> I recently goofed.
>>> I saved it as a sub-folder of the newsgroup being searched.
>>> Right-clicking does *NOT* give me the option to delete that sub-folder.
>>
>> In 2.53.18 I wasn't offered the opportunity to save a search folder to a
>> Newsgroup: only my network and local email folders were listed ion the
>> pull-down. The New [Sub]Folder... context menu item is not available for
>> newsgroup folders.
>
> Both 2.49.5 and a 2.53.18b1pre I have around behave that way: you can't
> select a newsgroup to save the search as a subfolder.
>
> But, in both, if I don't select a folder, the new search folder is
> created as a subfolder of (I suppose) the currently selected folder, so
> I was able to have search folders show up as subfolders of newsgroups by
> not selecting a folder in "Create as a subfolder of".
>
> But I think I see a "Delete" entry in the context menu for these search
> folders, so I need to test more.

Just checked: the "Delete" context menu entry shows up in 2.53.18 as
well, but doesn't appear in 2.49.5 (yesterday I must have looked for it
only under 2.53.18b1pre?).

But (in 2.49.5) the delete *key* works (that is, hit it with the search
folder you want to remove selected in the tree view).

--
Nuno Silva

On 01/03/2024 10:05 AM, Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:
> On 03/01/2024 11:01, Richard Owlett wrote:> Generally when I wish to
> save a newsgroup of search, I save it as a
>> sub-folder of "Local Folders". If I right-click on it, SeaMonkey
>> displays an option to delete that particular sub-folder. That's *GOOD*.
>>
>> I recently goofed.
>> I saved it as a sub-folder of the newsgroup being searched.
>> Right-clicking does *NOT* give me the option to delete that sub-folder.
>
> In 2.53.18 I wasn't offered the opportunity to save a search folder to a
> Newsgroup: only my network and local email folders were listed ion the
> pull-down. The New [Sub]Folder... context menu item is not available for
> newsgroup folders.
>

I cannot reproduce the problem _now_.
The filter criteria suggest it was created back in 2021.
[haven't yet shut down to pursue your suggestion]
Help->AboutSeaMonkey reports I'm currently running
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
SeaMonkey/2.49.4"
Who knows what version I had been running as I don't frequently update.

>> ...
>> Where/how is that sub-folder stored?
>> Is there a purely local machine solution to my problem?
>
> I'm sure there is. Have a look in the News subdirectory of your active
> SM profile (while not using the profile). There should be a subdirectory
> representing the NNTP server. Inside that directory, there should be a
> subdirectory, probably with a .sbd extension, corresponding to your
> search. Try moving that to a safe place away from the profile.
>
> If that works (after starting SM with the profile), you can delete the
> saved errant directory; or if you still wanted the search folder you
> could delete the saved directory and re-create the folder as the right
> subfolder; or possibly copying the saved subdirectory into the .sbd
> directory representing the desired point in the Mail/Local Folders
> hierarchy would have the effect of moving it there.
>
> /df
>