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  Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2021-06-20 03:45 -0400
    Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-06-20 07:35 -0400
    Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" "David E. Ross" <not_me@not_there.invalid> - 2021-06-20 07:38 -0700
    Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Marc Auslander <marcausl@gmail.com> - 2021-06-20 10:59 -0400
      Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" WaltS48 <schw01@invalid.net> - 2021-06-20 11:17 -0400
      Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-06-20 17:37 +0100
        Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Teddy-Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-06-20 12:46 -0400
      Re: Concerning "Marking All Folders Read" Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2021-06-21 01:37 -0400

#682 — Concerning "Marking All Folders Read"

After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders read", 
Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may sometimes do 
this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is there a way to 
configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon request) without 
checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you in advance for a 
positive or a negative answer!

Bill

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#686

On 6/20/21 3:45 AM, this is what Bill wrote:
> After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders read", Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may sometimes 
> do this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is there a way to configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon request) 
> without checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you in advance for a positive or a negative answer!
> 
> Bill
I'm rather torn about it too.   The powers at be don't seem to get it in sync.
Some days I just right click the newsgroup and mark all read and that does not ask me.
Some days I do it to the server and then it asks me.  No consistency in programming.

But it's more time consuming to click one group at a time rather than one server.

I think doing it one newsgroup at a time is more logical because as I get to the last group, I'll see that more new messages have come up in 
the marked groups since I read them.  If I were to do the whole server and get that nagging OK prompt, I may not really have read everything.

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#693

On 6/20/2021 12:45 AM, Bill wrote:
> After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders read", 
> Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may sometimes do 
> this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is there a way to 
> configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon request) without 
> checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you in advance for a 
> positive or a negative answer!
> 
> Bill
> 

I selected the first newsgroup in an account.  (I have three newsgroup
accounts.)  While holding down my Shift key, I then selected the last
newsgroup in the same account.  Finally, I right-clicked to get the
pull-down context menu and selected Mark Newsgroup Read.  All newsgroups
were marked as read WITHOUT any prompt asking if I were sure.

-- 
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

The Republican Party has abandoned all principles and has
instead become a personality cult worshiping Donald Trump.

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#694

On 6/20/2021 3:45 AM, Bill wrote:
> After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders read", 
> Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may sometimes do 
> this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is there a way to 
> configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon request) without 
> checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you in advance for a 
> positive or a negative answer!
> 
> Bill
shift-c immediately marks all read with no dialor.

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#696

On 6/20/21 10:59 AM, Marc Auslander wrote:
> On 6/20/2021 3:45 AM, Bill wrote:
>> After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders 
>> read", Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may 
>> sometimes do this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is 
>> there a way to configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon 
>> request) without checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you 
>> in advance for a positive or a negative answer!
>>
>> Bill
> shift-c immediately marks all read with no dialor.

"Mark All Folder Read" is a right-click context menu item when the 
account is selected in the Folder Pane introduced in Thunderbird 68.0.

>
>         new
>
> Mark all folders of an account as read
>
REF: 
<https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/#whatsnew>

David's and your methods work for the newsgroups.

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#702

Marc Auslander wrote:

> Bill wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon
>> request) without checking with me whether I'm sure first?
>
> shift-c immediately marks all read with no dialor.

for the current group only, not for all groups ...

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#705

On 6/20/21 12:37 PM, this is what Andy Burns wrote:
> 
> Marc Auslander wrote:
> 
>> Bill wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon
>>> request) without checking with me whether I'm sure first?
>>
>> shift-c immediately marks all read with no dialor.
> 
> for the current group only, not for all groups ...
But thanks Walt, it's a bit easier than right-click and click.  I usually have my hand on the keyboard anyway.


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Quad Core i7-8550U, 16G Memory, 512G SSD, 750G & 1TB HDDs
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#710

On 6/20/2021 10:59 AM, Marc Auslander wrote:
> On 6/20/2021 3:45 AM, Bill wrote:
>> After reading my newsgroups, When I choose to "Mark all folders read", 
>> Thunderbird inquires of me whether "I'm sure".  Since I may sometimes 
>> do this a couple of time a day, it's a little tedious.   Is there a 
>> way to configure Thunderbird mark the folders read (upon request) 
>> without checking with me whether I'm sure first?  Thank you in advance 
>> for a positive or a negative answer!
>>
>> Bill
> shift-c immediately marks all read with no dialog.


Thank you for that tip, Marc!  I wasn't aware of that feature.

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