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Can't see folders in Horde after changing username

I recently used a script written by the previous sys admin to change a username of an existing horde user. Now that it has finished, I can see the inbox with the new username but none of the subfolders. I have reconstructed the mailbox and all of the folders get processed but they still don't show up using Horde's email client. The folders DO exist on disk.

If I try to create a folder using the same name as a folder that exists but doesn't display using Horde's email client I get the following error message, "The folder 'foldername' was not created. This is what the server said: Mailbox already exists". And no folder is displayed.

I've tried using Thunderbird and get the same results. In Thunderbird, if I try to recreate a folder with the same name as one of the folders that exist on disk, the Create Folder window just disappears quietly and no folder is created.

Horde is running on RHEL5.5. I'm not very familiar with Horde and am not certain of the version. There is a file called "horde-3.3.6/INSTALL", but when I click Help in the Horde email client I see the following in the upper-right corner, "IMP H3 (4.3.6)"

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Thanks! That worked nicely. I wasn't expecting it to work because of the errors that were thrown the first time the script ran, but it worked perfectly. I "downloaded" the folders under the old username but after I reran the script changing the username all of the folders were there the second time--I didn't even need to restore them.