Users • Re: stuck ipad/iphone + move folder and contents to another user?

Hi, you might create a new secondary account, share mail folders from that account to the primary account (the one that has iPad syncing problems) and then let the user copy the emails from his primary account to the secondary, then delete the original emails on the primary account.

Thanks for your reply,
I mentioned such secondary account, so we came to the same solution/work-around

The ipad mail seem to be working again, i temporarily reduced sync time to 2 weeks (hoping to buy some time, mail storage now at 15Mb)
I would like to move that archive folder to a secondary account -I cannot exclude it from syncing within the same account.
This way it (the data nor the folder structure) does not get synced anymore.

The execution, however, I've been struggling with all morning.
For future (me) reference and others, this is what I settled on:
1. create an archive account
here will reside eventually all archived folders, subfolders and messages
2. create a temporary transfer account
this is needed to circumvent issues with thunderbird IMAP
if the main account is used in IMAP, I have not found a way to only download the archive folder.
thunderbird insist on getting the whole mailbox, where I then could (but i don't want to ) specify every individual subfolder to sync
given the massive size of the mailbox, handling the whole mailbox exceeds my patience.
3. share the archive folder in the main user account with the transfer account
the transfer is empty but for the (shared) archive folder
this allows, in thunderbird, to sync the whole account without further granularity( server settings/advanced/deselect show only subscribed folders)
4. Thunderbird
Add transfer and archive account as IMAP
the transfer imap account shows all folders and subfolders of the archive folder
( * I'm at this point, waiting for sync completion)
5. Thunderbird allows for folder copying between accounts. transfer -> archive

6. Once the copy is done
- delete the archive folders in the main account
- delete the transfer account
- share the archive account back to the main account.

and that should be it , in theory, -- for a while....
...minus the part where the user could do this himself in the future

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in practice, a rough estimate reveals about 7000 (sub)folders with unknown numbers of messages
no wonder ipad is choking as is thunderbird now also.
fingers crossed, thunderbird keeps churning on..

perhaps I should spend more time with the commandline instead of falling for the "easy" promise offered by GUIs

Statistics: Posted by glenndm — Fri Dec 20, 2024 12:43 pm

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