What is properly named Unified Inbox is normally at the top, so I don't know what you are referring to here. A screenshot, please?

In general, the order of accounts and the folders within them is addressed by use of the Manually Sort Folders addon, but this doesn't affect the Unified Folders view.

I am referring to what you say. For whatever reason my unified folders are at the bottom not at the top. I am not techno savvy so don't know how to take a screen shot. I have minimised all the different isp boxes and have in this order from top to bottom My tpg email, my pmbx email, local folders ( optus) and lastly unified folders. I don't se3m to be able to move this

I have never seen Unified Folders in any order other than this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem

Attached is the screen dump. Thanks for sending me the link to do this. As you can see it is clearly at the bottom under the 3 isp mail boxes which is odd to say the least. Am I to assume that because you haven't seen this before you are unable to help me any further? If so I am very disappointed. Maybe you could make some suggestions as to what I could try or do I have to live with the problem?

OK, your Unified Folders isn't what I think of as Unified Folders.

View|Folders|Unified gives you the summary views at the top, as in my screen shot. But you're in View|Folders|All, so your "Unified Folders" is something else. Possibly a Saved Search, but I didn't think you can build these outside of a pre-existing folder.

It would be useful to see what you get if you right-click your Unified Folders and view its Properties (or maybe its Settings).

Maybe Manually Sort Folders would do the trick for you, but I have to say I am puzzled by how you have added a new top-level folder alongside existing account folders.

I tried right clicking on the unified box and it gave me these 4 options - Open, search, New folder, and properties. thinking the last option may be the best one it took me to the settings. Here is a screen dump of this screen from which you will see it is a special box and doesn't show any other settings.

I think I may have to accept that I cannot move it unless you can come up with another option. For example could I delete this unified box and set up another one along the lines of what you were thinking it was?

I am baffled by what you have there. It appears to be a second instance of the built in Local Folders "special account" - it has the same icon and the same properties page. I haven't yet found any way to replicate what you have there. I can create such a folder in the file system, but my Thunderbird doesn't see this folder and so doesn't present it as a working account.

I wonder if at some point your Local Folders was renamed to "Unified Folders" and subsequently the missing Local Folders was re-created, perhaps automatically.

The Manually Sort Folders addon may be able to bump this up to the top as you wish, but personally I would rescue any contents I wanted to keep and remove the darn thing. I don't know what it is, I don't know how it got there, so I have no confidence that it would be useful or reliable. For instance, Manually Sort Folders may just ignore it as it's non-standard and possibly illegitimate.