Outlook 2013 expands wrong subfolder when rules move email

Running Outlook 2013, Windows 7 Pro, exchange email with Office 365 directly from Microsoft.
No other accounts attached.
I have set rules for email from some senders to go to certain subfolders in my inbox.
Email is sorted by date received.
When a new email arrives and is sent to the correct subfolder and indicated by the number of unread emails in the left hand column.
when I open the folder for that sender, Outlook expands the subfolder for 2 days previously, not todays subfolder where the new email resides.
I set each folder completely collapsed when I leave that folder.
This is persistent and repeatable.
For example, I have a folder called "Purchasing" with a subfolder in it called "Apple stuff". When a rule sends a new email to the "Apple stuff" subfolder a small blue number "1" appears beside the "Apple
stuff" subfolder. Assuming today is Tuesday - When I open the "Apple stuff" subfolder the "Date:Today" folder is collapsed, the Date:Yesterday" folder is collapsed, but the "Date:Sunday" folder is expanded. I have
to collapse the "Date:Sunday" folder and open the "Date:Today" folder to see the new email.
Why does Outlook open the day-before-yesterdays sub folder - persistently?
How do I get Outlook to open the correct subfolder, or can I?

Hi,
I'm not able to reproduce this issue on my Outlook 2013, Today and other Dates are all expanded by default.
I'm wondering whether this issue was caused by some 3rd-party add-ins or a corrupted view. We can perform the steps below to troubleshoot this issue:
1. Start Outlook in Safe Mode. Press Win + R, type "outlook.exe /safe" in the blank box, press Enter.
If then the problem is gone, disable the suspicious add-ins in Outlook to verify which one caused the issue.
2. We can start Outlook with the switch "/cleanviews". This will restore default views, all custom views you created will be lost. Press Win + R, type "outlook.exe /cleanviews" in the blank box, press Enter.
Check the result and hopefully we can fix it.
Regards,
Melon Chen
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