Not allowed to remove/delete folders

[aaeneas]

It appears as though AutoArchiveReloaded constructs a folder structure using the calendar year for the name of a sub-folder of the folder named "archive" where messages from the inbox are placed when archived. Then sub-folders of that folder are created using names that match the sub-folders of the inbox. Nothing wrong with that it seems to fit nicely with idea of archiving.

However, as time goes by these folders eventually become stagnant (i.e., never change). While I have been able to relocate the messages contained within these folders, I have not been able to remove/delete the folders even when they are empty and old enough that they are not going to used anymore. I'm hoping this is just because I have not been able to figure out how it is done. This seems like a very normal thing to do and I'd much appreciate it if someone could explain how it is done.

[Brummolix]

These folders will be created by Thunderbird and not the addon (depending on the Thunderbird archive settings of the account, you can also switch off the yearly folders there).
I just checked. I can simply delete these folders in my installation.

But it may also depend on the location of these folders (inside a local account vs. inside an email account). In an email account the mail provider may also have server settings.

You may try to right click a folder an press repair.

[aaeneas]

I wasn't aware of Tbird settings related to archives. However, it does look like, many years ago, I changed the name from "archives" to "archive" which does help to explain something else I was puzzled by which is why both existed. However, in the case of "archives" they were old and I could delete them. Possibly that was not the case when that is where archived messages were being placed.

When it comes to placement I have some recollection of having of using local folders when I first got started using AutoArchive. However, that turned out to be problematic which I think, at least at the time, was a recognized defect of AutoArchive. The problem being that transferring the messages to the local folders failed but somehow did it in a way that AutoArchive was unaware and went ahead and deleted the archived messages even though they never made it to the local folders. For that reason I have been, for quite some time now, archiving to to folders on the IMAP server which by the way is much quicker. Then as they age I eventually would copy them to local folders and when successful delete folders on the IMAP server. Note; the copy operations would also experience issues but because the source files were not automatically deleted success could be verified before undertaking the delete operations.

I am still trying to use folders on the IMAP server for the archive operations.