# help my folders are sick **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 4, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-folders-are-sick/1188 "2000-04-04T22:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JLPicard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JLPicard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLPicard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-folders-are-sick/1188/1 "2000-04-04T22:15:00Z")
## All of my folders look strange. Some are yellow and some are orange. How do I change it back to the way It was before, with the open and closed folder varity Bad spellers of the world… UNTIE ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-folders-are-sick/1188/2 "2000-04-05T05:46:00Z")
😕 What open folders? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-folders-are-sick/1188/3 "2000-04-06T05:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by JLPicard: > \*\* > All of my folders look strange. Some are yellow and some are orange. How do I change it back to the way It was before, with the open and closed folder varity > \*\* The orange folders denote folders that have new posts in them since the last time you logged on your computer. The yellow folders are the ones that don’t have any new posts in them since the last time you logged on your computer. They don’t show up as “open” and “closed” on my computer. Unless you’re talking about something totally different?.. 😕 * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen