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Folder Corruption using symbols

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I noticed that all the folders I have created in Thunderbird, using a symbol at the beginning (for sorting purposes), like a period (.) or an exclamation mark (!), gets the folder corrupted and the following symptoms will be noticed: A) the corresponding file name of the folder will be a random generated characters like eege90ge67 B) the contents of the folder will disappear (deleted perhaps?) C) when you create a sub folder in that folder, it duplicates itself D) when you create a sub folder in that folder, it cannot be deleted E) in case you delete the initial folder or subfolders, they cannot be removed from the Trash folder, either they give a message, freeze the system or just re-appear after a restart.

I have plenty of space on the SSD HD, have a fast machine, been using TB for more than 5 years and just recently I started to rename the folders with symbols.

Any feedback or solution would be appreciated.

I noticed that all the folders I have created in Thunderbird, using a symbol at the beginning (for sorting purposes), like a period (.) or an exclamation mark (!), gets the folder corrupted and the following symptoms will be noticed: A) the corresponding file name of the folder will be a random generated characters like eege90ge67 B) the contents of the folder will disappear (deleted perhaps?) C) when you create a sub folder in that folder, it duplicates itself D) when you create a sub folder in that folder, it cannot be deleted E) in case you delete the initial folder or subfolders, they cannot be removed from the Trash folder, either they give a message, freeze the system or just re-appear after a restart. I have plenty of space on the SSD HD, have a fast machine, been using TB for more than 5 years and just recently I started to rename the folders with symbols. Any feedback or solution would be appreciated.

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> Any feedback or solution would be appreciated.

Don't use those special characters is the suggestion

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If we don't use those symbols, then how can we sort the folders to show at the top? Can someone suggest an extension? (I couldn't find any) I used to use Outlook before and it didn't have any issues with the symbols and we had an option to display any folder in the Favorite section. Wish we have such an option in TB.

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For such purposes I use "a-" to start the folder name.