A User's Guide to Evolution
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# The Folder Bar

The folder bar is a more comprehensive way to view the information you've stored with `Evolution`. It displays all your appointments, address cards, and email in a tree that's a lot like a file tree— it starts small at the top, and branches downwards. On most computers, there will be three folders at the base. At the top are your `vFolders`, or virtual folders, discussed in the section called Getting Really Organized with Virtual Folders in the chapter called Evolution Mail. After that come any IMAP mail folders you might have available to you over your network. The next folder is called `External Directories`, and holds LDAP contact directories stored on a network. The most important one is probably `Local`, which you can use to access all the data that's stored on your computer. If you click on the plus sign plus sign next to the `Local` folder, you'll see the contents:

- `Calendar`, for appointments and event listings.

- `Contacts`, for address cards.

- `Directories`, for Internet contact directories.

- `Inbox`, for incoming mail.

- `Outbox`, which is for drafts of messages and mail that's already been sent.

To create a new folder, select File->New->Folder. You'll be asked where you want to put it, and what kind of folder it should be. You can choose from three types: `Mail`, for storing mail, `Calendar` for storing calendars, and `Contacts` for storing contacts.

| Folders Have Limits
| You can always place a folder inside other folders, regardless of folder type. However, calendars, contacts, and mail can't go into the same folder. Calendars have to go in calendar folders, mail in mail folders, and contacts in contact folders.

Right-clicking will bring up a menu for just about anything in GNOME, and `Evolution` is no exception. If you right-click on a folder, you'll have a menu with the following options:

- View, to view a message.

- Something else, for another purpose.

- Something else, for another purpose.

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| Context-Sensitive Help
| GNOME 2.0 supports context-sensitive help, which means you can almost always get help on an item by right-clicking it. If you're not sure what something is, or don't know what you can do with it, choosing Help from the right-click menu is a good way to find out.

Any time new information arrives in a folder, that folder label is displayed in bold text.

To delete a folder, right-click it and select Delete from the menu that pops up. To change the order of folders, or put one inside another, use drag-and-drop. To move individual messages, appointments, and address cards between folders, you can do the same thing: drag them where you want them, and they'll go.

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