# Problems when having two folders with same name **URL:** \ **Category:** problem\ **Created:** [May 8, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/problems-when-having-two-folders-with-same-name/4460 "2014-05-08T16:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pathaapa](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@pathaapa](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/pathaapa)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/problems-when-having-two-folders-with-same-name/4460/1 "2014-05-08T16:54:00Z")
Can’t move feeds between folders that have the same name (one of them is a subfolder of another folder). If you delete one of the folders, the subfolder with the same name also gets deleted. - “Folder” - “Folder containing a subfolder” — “Folder” Moving feeds from “Folder” to the subfolder “Folder” does not work, nothing happens. Deleting “Folder” also deletes the subfolder with the same name. ---
**Author:** ![KraZy\_MiKe](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/ebca7d/32.png) [@KraZy\_MiKe](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/KraZy_MiKe)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/problems-when-having-two-folders-with-same-name/4460/2 "2014-05-09T09:21:00Z")
It’s usually not a good idea (even more so with online services) to have multiple folders with the same names. Most operating systems can tolerate it (duplicate sub-folders) but it has been known to create problems for emergency file recovery in some cases. You might want to try this: 1- move messages/content to temporary folders (each with a different name) 2- then erase all of the folders with duplicated names 3- create new folders where you need them (with slightly different names) 4- move the messages/content back where they belong You might need to get creative with your naming but it will save you many headaches going forward. Hope this helped a bit. ---
**Author:** ![pathaapa](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@pathaapa](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/pathaapa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/problems-when-having-two-folders-with-same-name/4460/3 "2014-05-09T10:19:00Z")
Let’s say that I subscribe to all kinds of feeds related to work and my favorite hobby. I arrange the feeds in folders so that I can easily read the work feeds while working and… you get the picture. Top folder: WORK Subfolders: - News sites - Blogs - Other Top folder: HOBBY Subfolders: - Community sites - Blogs And now, for whatever reason, a blog that used to relate to work changes direction and starts writing about my favorite hobby and nothing else. Clearly, it has to be moved, right? I see no reason why there should be a problem to MOVE it to HOBBY -\> Blogs. Sure, I can move the feeds one by one to a temporary folder, delete the folder I’m moving from (in this case both gets deleted) and then move all of the feeds once again. This is what I did. And it’s also why I created this bug report, because surely it should be possible to move sites between top folders into a subfolder of a different top folder. In the live scenario that I encountered the problem, the “Blogs” folder was a top folder and I wanted to move the feeds to a subfolder, to get things organized. But it does not work and there’s no reason for it not to. Again, it’s not a big issue, since most people probably don’t reorganize feeds that often. But when you do, it sucks that this doesn’t work (when you’re moving a lot of feeds) ---
**Author:** ![James\_DiGioia](https://forum.newsblur.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@James\_DiGioia](https://forum.newsblur.com/u/James_DiGioia)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.newsblur.com/t/problems-when-having-two-folders-with-same-name/4460/4 "2014-05-09T19:36:00Z")
I actually had the same problem - my solution was to suffix the subfolder based on their parent. So in your case, you would have: Top folder: WORK Subfolders: - News sites W - Blogs W - Other W etc. Based on a Twitter back and forth I had, this isn’t fixable on his end, so you can’t have duplicate subfolder names in Newsblur, period.