MacOS – How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)

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Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.

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I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it – how can I do that?

To pre-empt some answers, no, this is not a folder that exists in either Gmail account, it's something that Mail.app has made up for itself, much like a Smart Folder.

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Drove me crazy too, so I made a mailbundle to right this wrong ;-) Download it here: http://eelco.lempsink.nl/NoFlaggedMailbox.zip

Note: I’ll update the plugin every time when Mail.app breaks it for ‘compatibility’ reasons. Just download it again and run the INSTALL script again to update. (Might take me a couple of days though.)

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