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Is there a way to delete folders on Yahoo! email accounts?

Most of the time on my other email accounts if I want to all I have to do is right click & it provides this option. But for some reason on my Yahoo! account it does not provide this option.

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  • 2 decades ago
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    If you are speaking of deleting folders on your Yahoo account from a web browser. Then here are the steps:

    1. Look to the left hand side of your browser and look at the folders list.

    * You can't delete the default folders:

    Inbox

    Draft

    Sent

    Bulk

    Trash

    2. Left Click on "Edit" beside the word "Add"

    3. Find the folder that you want to delete and left click on Delete

    *Remember you can only delete the non default folders.

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    Thanks!

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  • 2 decades ago

    Yes there is a way! on your yahoo mail home screen where they show that you have any new emails and stuff look on the left side where it says Inbox and all that other stuff look for Add-Edit click it then it shows all the folders you have then it says Rename-Delete then you go under the folder you want to trash and click delete! Then it's gone! by the way plz add me as a friend to the yahoo 360 thingy!

    A Smart 15 yr old!

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  • 5 years ago

    U cant delete default folders like inbox, despatched, bulk, draft, trash. yet u can actual delete the folders created by ability of u. to attempt this, click on edit button close to the inbox folder. U will see a itemizing of folders. Now again click on the edit button in the front of the folder u prefer to delete. Now delete all the messages in that folder and empty it totally. Now come back on the previous web page and click delete the folder u hv emptied. in reality emptied folder will be deleted. seem after this element.

  • 2 decades ago

    You can only delete folders you created. There's a link to "Add - Edit". Click on "Edit" and you'll see the list of all the folders you have. Make sure the folder is empty first and click on 'delete'.

    Source(s): Yahoo! Mail
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  • Jin
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    Sure..

    in the left side of your mail acocunt window.. there you can see Folder Listings.. above that you can see Folders -"Add - Edit"

    There click "Edit" and that will direct you to another window which has deleting options...

    - Jin

  • 2 decades ago

    Sure is...just click "edit" the "add-edit" area right next to where it says folders. Then on the next screen just go down to the folder you want to delete and click "delete".

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    when you just sign into yahoo mail above all your folders is "edit". click on that and you can delete from there.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    ◙ Yahoo Mail Tutorials

    http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/index.html

    ◙ Main Yahoo Mail Help Page.

    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/index.html

    ◙ Learn how to use Yahoo Mail as a POP3 email account (PAID ACCOUNTS ONLY) so you can recieve your Yahoo Mail messages in a program like Outlook Express etc.

    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ext/ext-07.html

    ◙ Learn how to move your address book to Outlook Express or some other software. Also you can move your address book from one of these programs to Yahoo Mail if you desire.

    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ab/impexp/

    ◙ What's New In Yahoo Mail

    http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com/

    ◙ How To Sign Up For Paid Accounts

    http://billing.mail.yahoo.com/bm/Upgrades

  • 2 decades ago

    make sure the folder is empty first

  • 2 decades ago

    You will find an edit button near inbox. use it.

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