Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with the
two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
"unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
betanews account.

--
Ilya Zeldes
Fort Myers, Florida

Were you using another e-mail program prior to setting up OE as a
newsreader? The folders you describe are there by default and you can't get
rid of them. However, if you do not use OE for mail, nothing will ever enter
those folders.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
> the
> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
> betanews account.
>
> --
> Ilya Zeldes
> Fort Myers, Florida
>

Those are Outlook Express' default mailboxes. If you're not using them,
just ignore them. They're not contaminated.

Exactly how much "precious space" do you think these mailboxes are
taking up?

---
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

ilyaz wrote:
> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with the
> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
> betanews account.
>

I use the Folder bar and have Contact and Folder list closed.
I have the full width of the screen for headers and Preview Pane.
--
Ron Sommer

"ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
: Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
: While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
the
: two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
: are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
: "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
: it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
: EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
: betanews account.
:
: --
: Ilya Zeldes
: Fort Myers, Florida
:
:

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:59:04 GMT, ilyaz wrote:

> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with the
> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
> betanews account.

Weird. I have not seen that. I am looking at MS Outlook Express, my Main
Identity. In the folder pane I see:

[Env]Outlook Express
|
[-]-[Fld] Local Folders
| |--------Inbox
| |--------Outbox
| |--------Sent Items
| |--------Deleted Items
| |--------Drafts
| |--------{More folders down list}
|
|--[btrfly] Hotmail
|
[+]-[HDD-Env] AIM Mail
| |--------Inbox
| |--------Sent
| |--------Drafts
| |--------{More folders down list}
_
[-]-[HDD-Env] N.Miller
| |--------Inbox
| |--------Copies to self
| |--------Drafts
| |--------{More folders down list}
|
[+]-[HDD-Pst] Gibson Research
|
[+]-[HDD-Pst] Microsoft
|
[+]-[HDD-Pst] PacBell News

I keep the Local folders collapsed. I expanded them to create this
diagram. Best used with a monospace font, such as Courier. There are no
email accounts interspersed with the news accounts. The list appears to
be:

Local Folders
HTTP Mail accounts
IMAP Mail accounts
NNTP News accounts

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Folders.dbx controls how the folders display.
If you do not have user created folders, close OE, move folders.dbx from the
OE Store Folder.
A new folders.dbx will be created when you reopen OE.
If that doesn't work, replace the new folders.dbx with the old.
--
Ron Sommer

"ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
: Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
: While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
the
: two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
: are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
: "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To make
: it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
: EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
: betanews account.
:
: --
: Ilya Zeldes
: Fort Myers, Florida
:
:

Bruce,
I'm afraid, there was misunderstanding... I'm not speaking about MAIL
accounts and their default boxes. I have two mail accounts - EarthLink and
Hotmail. Both have Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items. Those boxes are default
and could not be removed. No question about this.
My problem is with the Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items, which somehow got into
NEWS reader. I have two news accounts - EarthLink and Microsoft. In
EarthLink, I subscribed to three NGs. They are listed there and nothing
else. In Microsoft, I subscribed to two NGs. They are listed there, but, in
addition to them, there are this "boxes" too! They are not default. I never
had any boxes in any news account! How did they get there - have no idea.
Sure, I probably can close this account and start over... But if there is
another way to get rid of these boxes, I'd like to find it.
Thanks for your help.
Ilya

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:ebuR0Zy7GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Were you using another e-mail program prior to setting up OE as a
> newsreader? The folders you describe are there by default and you can't
> get rid of them. However, if you do not use OE for mail, nothing will ever
> enter those folders.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
>> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
>> the
>> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now they
>> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
>> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To
>> make
>> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
>> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
>> betanews account.
>>
>> --
>> Ilya Zeldes
>> Fort Myers, Florida
>>
>

I don't know the answer. I was under the impression that once you set up an
account in OE, Mail, or News, that those folders would be present.
Apparently I am mistaken.

That said, since you are not using them, if you click the minus (-) sign
next to Local Folders, those folders should collapse and not be seen.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:sF5Yg.7035$Lv3.3139@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Bruce,
> I'm afraid, there was misunderstanding... I'm not speaking about MAIL
> accounts and their default boxes. I have two mail accounts - EarthLink and
> Hotmail. Both have Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items. Those boxes are default
> and could not be removed. No question about this.
> My problem is with the Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items, which somehow got
> into NEWS reader. I have two news accounts - EarthLink and Microsoft. In
> EarthLink, I subscribed to three NGs. They are listed there and nothing
> else. In Microsoft, I subscribed to two NGs. They are listed there, but,
> in addition to them, there are this "boxes" too! They are not default. I
> never had any boxes in any news account! How did they get there - have no
> idea.
> Sure, I probably can close this account and start over... But if there is
> another way to get rid of these boxes, I'd like to find it.
> Thanks for your help.
> Ilya
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ebuR0Zy7GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Were you using another e-mail program prior to setting up OE as a
>> newsreader? The folders you describe are there by default and you can't
>> get rid of them. However, if you do not use OE for mail, nothing will
>> ever enter those folders.
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
>>> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
>>> the
>>> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now
>>> they
>>> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
>>> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To
>>> make
>>> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
>>> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
>>> betanews account.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ilya Zeldes
>>> Fort Myers, Florida
>>>
>>
>
>

P.S. If you go to Tools | Accounts | Mail, are there any listed there that
should not be? Could you have created an e-mail account and then added the
News account to it?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:ObAW8r57GHA.4568@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I don't know the answer. I was under the impression that once you set up an
>account in OE, Mail, or News, that those folders would be present.
>Apparently I am mistaken.
>
> That said, since you are not using them, if you click the minus (-) sign
> next to Local Folders, those folders should collapse and not be seen.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:sF5Yg.7035$Lv3.3139@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> Bruce,
>> I'm afraid, there was misunderstanding... I'm not speaking about MAIL
>> accounts and their default boxes. I have two mail accounts - EarthLink
>> and Hotmail. Both have Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items. Those boxes are
>> default and could not be removed. No question about this.
>> My problem is with the Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items, which somehow got
>> into NEWS reader. I have two news accounts - EarthLink and Microsoft. In
>> EarthLink, I subscribed to three NGs. They are listed there and nothing
>> else. In Microsoft, I subscribed to two NGs. They are listed there, but,
>> in addition to them, there are this "boxes" too! They are not default. I
>> never had any boxes in any news account! How did they get there - have no
>> idea.
>> Sure, I probably can close this account and start over... But if there is
>> another way to get rid of these boxes, I'd like to find it.
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Ilya
>>
>> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:ebuR0Zy7GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Were you using another e-mail program prior to setting up OE as a
>>> newsreader? The folders you describe are there by default and you can't
>>> get rid of them. However, if you do not use OE for mail, nothing will
>>> ever enter those folders.
>>> --
>>> Bruce Hagen
>>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>>> ~IB-CA~
>>>
>>> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>>> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
>>>> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
>>>> the
>>>> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now
>>>> they
>>>> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
>>>> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To
>>>> make
>>>> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
>>>> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under
>>>> the
>>>> betanews account.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Ilya Zeldes
>>>> Fort Myers, Florida
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

Bruce,
there is no any extra mail account.. Thanks for trying to help. I guess, I
just unsubscribe the whole thing and will subscribe again. The reason I
tried to avoid unsubscribe is that this news service is Microsoft Beta and
requires special ID and password... Will go through this again...
Ilya

"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
news:ulJHrv57GHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> P.S. If you go to Tools | Accounts | Mail, are there any listed there that
> should not be? Could you have created an e-mail account and then added the
> News account to it?
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ObAW8r57GHA.4568@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I don't know the answer. I was under the impression that once you set up
>>an account in OE, Mail, or News, that those folders would be present.
>>Apparently I am mistaken.
>>
>> That said, since you are not using them, if you click the minus (-) sign
>> next to Local Folders, those folders should collapse and not be seen.
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:sF5Yg.7035$Lv3.3139@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>> Bruce,
>>> I'm afraid, there was misunderstanding... I'm not speaking about MAIL
>>> accounts and their default boxes. I have two mail accounts - EarthLink
>>> and Hotmail. Both have Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items. Those boxes are
>>> default and could not be removed. No question about this.
>>> My problem is with the Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items, which somehow got
>>> into NEWS reader. I have two news accounts - EarthLink and Microsoft. In
>>> EarthLink, I subscribed to three NGs. They are listed there and nothing
>>> else. In Microsoft, I subscribed to two NGs. They are listed there, but,
>>> in addition to them, there are this "boxes" too! They are not default. I
>>> never had any boxes in any news account! How did they get there - have
>>> no idea.
>>> Sure, I probably can close this account and start over... But if there
>>> is another way to get rid of these boxes, I'd like to find it.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> Ilya
>>>
>>> "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:ebuR0Zy7GHA.4116@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Were you using another e-mail program prior to setting up OE as a
>>>> newsreader? The folders you describe are there by default and you can't
>>>> get rid of them. However, if you do not use OE for mail, nothing will
>>>> ever enter those folders.
>>>> --
>>>> Bruce Hagen
>>>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>>>> ~IB-CA~
>>>>
>>>> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>>>> Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
>>>>> While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along
>>>>> with the
>>>>> two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now
>>>>> they
>>>>> are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
>>>>> "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To
>>>>> make
>>>>> it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
>>>>> EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under
>>>>> the
>>>>> betanews account.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ilya Zeldes
>>>>> Fort Myers, Florida
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:32:08 GMT, ilyaz wrote:

> My problem is with the Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items, which somehow got
> into NEWS reader.

Are you using MS Outlook 2007, or similar? Or is this MS Outlook
Express. I just tried to set up a test Identity in MS Outlook Express,
with the idea of setting it up only as a news client, with no email
account. I bailed on the account Wizard, and have no email account in
this Identity. Even so, there are folders listed under the Local Folders
headings:

Inbox
Outbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Drafts

I really don't think that you can avoid them. MSOE just creates them,
and that is that.

I doubt that there is something as easy as a registry hack. More like a
fundamental rewrite of the underlying code.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Ron and the rest of the people who got involved,
yes, I have Outlook Express and as I mentioned it in my original post, I'm
not concerned with the mail accounts. Everything is OK with them. My problem
is with the weird "additions" to one of my news reader. Along with the news
groups I'm subscribed to, these boxes are listed...
Here's how it looks:

Hotmail
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Miscellaneous
Betanews.Microsoft.com
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Microsoft.betanews...
Microsoft. betanews...
News.EarthLink.net
soc.genealogy...

Hope this clarifies my problem.
Regards,
Ilya

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
news:%23av2jy37GHA.4708@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Folders.dbx controls how the folders display.
> If you do not have user created folders, close OE, move folders.dbx from
> the
> OE Store Folder.
> A new folders.dbx will be created when you reopen OE.
> If that doesn't work, replace the new folders.dbx with the old.
> --
> Ron Sommer
>
> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> : Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
> : While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along with
> the
> : two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>. Now
> they
> : are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried to
> : "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders? To
> make
> : it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail accounts,
> : EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are under the
> : betanews account.
> :
> : --
> : Ilya Zeldes
> : Fort Myers, Florida
> :
> :
>

What the folder list should look like is:

Local Folders
Inbox
Outbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Drafts
Hotmail
Inbox
Sent Items
Deleted Items
Miscellaneous
Betanews.Microsoft.com
Microsoft.betanews...
Microsoft. betanews...
News.EarthLink.net
soc.genealogy...

Do you have anything under Local Folders? If there is a + in front of
Local Folders click it to expand the folders list.

If the Local Folders is missing or is there but doesn't have at least 5
folders listed above, then the Folders.DBX file is probably corrupted.
See what Ron suggested for fixing that.

If the Local Folders look OK, I would remove the Betanews.Microsoft.com
news account, then restart OE and set it up again. A news account
shouldn't have an Inbox etc. It could be that somehow the account got
confused and OE thinks it's an IMAP or HTTP mail account. You didn't by
chance at one time set up Betanews.Microsoft.com saying it was that?

If you continue to have problems, you need to try a new Identity in OE.




--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:6_bYg.13842$UG4.3152@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Ron and the rest of the people who got involved,
> yes, I have Outlook Express and as I mentioned it in my original post,
> I'm not concerned with the mail accounts. Everything is OK with them.
> My problem is with the weird "additions" to one of my news reader.
> Along with the news groups I'm subscribed to, these boxes are
> listed...
> Here's how it looks:
>
> Hotmail
> Inbox
> Sent Items
> Deleted Items
> Miscellaneous
> Betanews.Microsoft.com
> Inbox
> Sent Items
> Deleted Items
> Microsoft.betanews...
> Microsoft. betanews...
> News.EarthLink.net
> soc.genealogy...
>
> Hope this clarifies my problem.
> Regards,
> Ilya
>
> "Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
> news:%23av2jy37GHA.4708@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Folders.dbx controls how the folders display.
>> If you do not have user created folders, close OE, move folders.dbx
>> from the
>> OE Store Folder.
>> A new folders.dbx will be created when you reopen OE.
>> If that doesn't work, replace the new folders.dbx with the old.
>> --
>> Ron Sommer
>>
>> "ilyaz" <ilyaz@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> news:cLVXg.11182$o71.2767@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> : Recently, I established a news account and subscribed to two NGs.
>> : While subscribing, somehow (it never happened to me before!) along
>> with
>> the
>> : two NGs I got "subscription" to <Inbox, Sent and Deleted Items>.
>> Now they
>> : are sitting in the Local Folders pan and take precious space. Tried
>> to
>> : "unsubscribe" them to no avail. How do I get rid of these folders?
>> To make
>> : it clear, I'm not speaking about identical folders in mail
>> accounts,
>> : EarthLink and Hotmail. The Inbox, Sent and Deleted folders are
>> under the
>> : betanews account.
>> :
>> : --
>> : Ilya Zeldes
>> : Fort Myers, Florida
>> :
>> :
>>
>
>