Mailbox (folders ) unable to delete or change name.

I am unable to delete or change name of mailbox (folders). Please help. I follow the instructions given, but none of the ways shown do the job.

Brian,
I am about to leave for the rest of the day. However, please provide some additional info via some observations in the Finder.
In the Finder, open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes (Home is the folder that results from clicking on the icon of a House in the Sidebar of any Finder window). Is the Mailboxes folder found at the root level of the Mail folder as expected? Within the Mailboxes folder, locate one of the mailboxes you are trying to either delete or rename. They should have a folder name of the form xxxx.mbox -- do you find them, and are they exactly of that form including the extension .mbox? Are they at the first (root) level of the Mailboxes folder? If all is found per the expectations accompanying those questions, choose one of them and Control-click over it. Choose Get Info from the resulting contextual menu. Once the Get Info window is open, look closely a the section under Sharing and Permissions -- if necessary click the triangle to turn it downward, and tell me what is reported.
I will check for your observations late tonight.
Ernie

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