Not all folders (meta tag folder) are shown in item search (with possible explanation) about docspell HOT 4 OPEN

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I removed and readded folders. The result is that now NO folders are shown in the filter menu anymore. This might indicate that somehow new? folders are not displayed?

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I think I found what is happening. It is something half a bug I guess. But hard to find because it requires two things.

1. It seems that unused folders are not displayed. With tags this can be selected and not selected but it seems with folders not.
2. It needs a browser reload.
   So what happens:

• I add a new folder and it is not displayed
• I assign a document to the folder from teh pull down and the folder is still not displayed
• A browser reload and the folder appears with 1 document in it

First I did first the cache clear and the the assignment and this was the wrong sequence.

So question:

1. Can this behaviour of hiding empty folders be configured? Similar to tags or with a setting
2. Can the frontend refresh the page without a reload?

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Thank you for the report! There is an old bug #995 where newly created folders are not updated correctly. Empty folders are probably hidden on purpose (I have to check the code to be sure), because they wouldn't select any documents in the search.

So yes this is a bug of course. Not sure how much is covered in #995. Currently you cannot configure the same options as with tags.

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