Discussion on Folders4Gmail | Userscripts.org

How do I know if installed?, replied by David Bourbon

David Bourbon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:12:10 +0000

I use Mailplane with Snow Leopard. Folder4Gmail works, but I have to Reload all user scripts in GreaseKit and then refresh the page every time I start up.

Does not work for me?, replied by Arend

Arend — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:10:56 +0000

Does any of this help:
http://userscripts.org/topics/38629#posts-186416

Does not work for me?, replied by Matthew Rex Downham

Matthew Rex Downham — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:24:05 +0000

Hey there, I've installed this and it does not work as advertised, or at all. I've disabled all other scripts but labels still appear the original way. I've followed your directions verbatim as far as I can tell.

Is there anything I can provide to help solve the problem?

Thanks,
Matt

How do I know if installed?, replied by Arend

Arend — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:33 +0000

Some ideas:
- don't use both the userscript and the Better Gmail option at the same time
- make sure Greasemonkey is installed properly, maybe try if another script works
- create a label named "Family/Mum" and see if it changes
- try if the script works in the "Older version" of Gmail

How do I know if installed?, replied by John Danenbarger

John Danenbarger — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:11:31 +0000

Through Greasemonkey, I have installed Folders4Gmail (with success, it said). But I see no effect of creating labels with a /. The labels do not nest. I have followed your instructions, but to no avail.

Problems with F4G and Fluid, replied by Houston

Houston — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:21:58 +0000

I too would love to have F4G (a great userscript) work with Fluid. Maybe there's a Mac programmer that can collaborate with you Arend?

Why don't to do this thing a Google Lab?, replied by Kerim Friedman

Kerim Friedman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:34:37 +0000

There is a thread on this already, please voice your support:

http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-sugge...

CPU, replied by cablop

cablop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:12:31 +0000

i was using more than ten labs and tested them against your script, your script eats more CPU than TEN gmail labs!!

CPU, replied by cablop

cablop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:05:05 +0000

It is not easy to reach the place to put timers up, i think you can put a set of variables at the beginning of the script to make it easy for us...

anyway, it's still too CPU demanding

not only for that refresh rate but also it tries to load at the very beginning, so when gmail is still loading it causes gmail to fail to completely load...

and i saw at least two places with time interval and one tof them is still at 100 ms...

i still say this script is not CPU friendly, not users oriented...

Another vote for folders under "more", replied by cablop

cablop — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:57:42 +0000

or use just two arrays for that

i think we want to see it in the MORE section, not in the main only...

Why don't to do this thing a Google Lab?, replied by cablop

cablop — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:54:45 +0000

Why not starting to join the labs group?

http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs

CPU, replied by Kendra Tupper

Kendra Tupper — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:56:47 +0000

I am also having major problems with CPU in Firefox (version 3.5.2). I have the new version of F4GM installed and made changes to the wait time and load time. I have over 100 nested folders, but I never had this problem with the script until recently.

Problems with F4G and Fluid, replied by stepandr2009

stepandr2009 — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:24:02 +0000

Yes, it does have the same problem.

I think it's a problem with Google Gears. When I have either F4G or Gears then it works, but both together and it doesn't like it. (This is the Safari version of gears not the firefox one)
I'm not sure which is causing the problem - Is there any way I can check?

Thanks.

Problems with F4G and Fluid, replied by Arend

Arend — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:44:05 +0000

Hi,
sorry to hear that Folders4Gmail doesn't work so well with Fluid. Unfortunately I can't test with Fluid as I don't have a Mac.

Do you have the same problem if you make a Fluid application with the "Older version" of Gmail?
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

Problems with F4G and Fluid, replied by stepandr2009

stepandr2009 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:28:15 +0000

Hi,
I'm trying to use Folders4Gmail inside Fluid and, broadly speaking, it's working. The only problem is that when I first open my Gmail 'application' it fails to load. If I refresh the page then it opens and the script works perfectly. Because of this I'm not sure if the problem is with the script or if Fluid does something weird when it opens for the first time. Hopefully somebody will know!
If I run fluid without the script then the page loads first time.

I know this wasn't really designed for Fluid so any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!

Another vote for folders under "more", replied by Vaibhav Vaish

Vaibhav Vaish — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:41:09 +0000

One simple way can be to have an option where a label tag more/ is automatically prefixed? (eg personal/family be automatically interpreted as more/personal/family by the script before it generates the tree.).
Will be good enough for most people I guess. Is it possible to at least do it temporarily for those of us who want to conserve the screen real state ... ? [Adding manually to 50+ labels such a tag, which will also show in imap and other places, will be quite a no-do for most of us].

Thanks for the great script though,
Vaibhav

CPU, replied by Jim Reisert

Jim Reisert — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:05:34 +0000

Any progress on this? I have a Pentium 4 computer that can not use this script without the script timing out. I have over 100 folders.

CPU, replied by Bilz

Bilz — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:33:13 +0000

@Arend
Thanks for your reply. I do have a lot of labels, and it does appear as though that is what is taking the time to load. I changed the "window.setTimeout(waitForLoading, 500);" incrementally up to 25,000, and I'm afraid that made no difference.

CPU, replied by Arend

Arend — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:40:46 +0000

If you have problems loading, try to search for
window.setTimeout(waitForLoading, 500);
and increase the 500 number. Maybe that helps.

Do you have a lot of labels? Or maybe very few?

CPU, replied by Bilz

Bilz — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:50:01 +0000

My work e-mail transitioned to Google Apps for Education a few days ago, and so I am trying to get GMail set up the way I'd like. I've installed Better GMail 2 on Firefox 3.5.1 and I get the same CPU issues with F4GM that everyone else reports.

As per the advice in this forum, I unchecked F4GM in Better GMail 2 and installed the stand-alone script (v. 1.52). I altered the ""window.setTimeout(checkForLabelUpdates)" entry incrementally (in 5000 blocks) up to 25,000 and it made no appreciable difference.

F4GM will load, but I have to hit "Continue" in Firefox's "Warning: Unresponsive Script" 4 or 5 times (about 75 seconds total) before the script loads successfully. CPU usage spikes to 100% each time the script is continued, from Firefox's normal 3-5%.

F4GM is a really great concept, and once it loads it does everything I want it to do. But the load itself is onerous. Does anyone have any further suggestions for working around this?

Does anyone know..., replied by Arend

Arend — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:47:07 +0000

You are right, with Folders4Gmail the color boxes and expanders look out of line if most of your top labels don't exist.
If most of your top labels exists it looks more normal.

I think it's hard to make both real and fake top-labels look good at the moment :-(

Does anyone know..., replied by Dan Cork

Dan Cork — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:55:59 +0000

The label colours now sit to the left which means that when using this awesome script everything is out of line. Which I find really irritating.

Especially as most of my top level labels don't exist - they're only there as the first part of another label e.g. the Family part of Family/Dad - and thus they can't have a colour.

Does anyone know how to hide the colours or move them back to the right side of the labels?

CPU, replied by Slartibartfarst

Slartibartfarst — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:28:31 +0000

@Arend: Possibly useful additional information confirming some of my posts above.
I have been running BetterGmail with the F4GM option deselected, and with the Greasemonkey F4GM script enabled.
F4GM labels seem to work fine in Gmail newer version and Gmail older version.

In the newer version, CPU occupancy is higher at the outset, but not too bad. The cooling fan comes on a bit. After a variable amount of time (it is not consistent), the CPU occupancy starts to creep up and peak at 50% on my Centrino Duo CPU. If I then switch Gmail to the older version, CPU occupancy goes right down to a 9% or so - negligible. After a few minutes, if I switch back to Gmail newer version, then we go back to the start of this paragraph.

Another vote for folders under "more", replied by Madrobin

Madrobin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:00:07 +0000

Thanks for the great script, and for updating it so quickly after the new version of gmail was released.

I'd like to add my vote to extending the folder structure to the "more" drop-down.

Thanks again,

Steven

CPU, replied by Slartibartfarst

Slartibartfarst — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:00:53 +0000

@Arend: Yes, I was using v1.52 (as given in the script). :-(
I updated to and installed that version as soon as I read your post above, and made the change to the wait time (5,000) after installing it. Restarted F/fox, etc., too - just in case. Something is definitely thrashing the CPU in F/fox, and it's exacerbated under the Gmail new version - especially when F4GM is enabled. It's blown out of sight if I disable F4GM and enable LabelLinks4Gmail - which makes me suspect there is a common factor somewhere.