Unreplied folder won't stay hidden

Client: eM Client 9.2.2258 (7080479)
OS: Windows 10 Home x64 22H2

Under Favorites group, the Unreplied folder previously displayed when I had selected to watch a sent message for a reply. Now the Unreplied folder keeps showing despite nothing is listed inside it. Even after right-clicking on Favorites to deselect the Unreplied folder, the Unreplied folder keeps reappearing.

It will disappear upon deselecting the folder, but reappears when I next show eM Client (it hides in systray, and on reshowing its window the Unreplied folder reappears under the Favorites group but with nothing inside it). Unreplied does not reappear immediately on redisplaying eM Client’s window. Instead it reappears on the next mail poll, or after hitting F5 to do a refresh.

This was not a problem before. The Unreplied folder showed up under the Favorites group only when I selected to monitor for a reply on a sent messge. To make the Unreplied folder disappear meant I would right-click on a sent message listed in that folder to stop monitoring for a reply. Currently there are no messages listed in Unreplied that are monitored; i.e., the Unreplied folder is empty.

An exit of eM Client, and reload, does not eliminate the untoward and altered behavior of the Unreplied folder. It now always appears under the Favorites group. I am not waiting for replies on any sent messages. There are none listed in the Unreplied folder for me to deselect (which, if present, would make the Unreplied folder disappear once I chose to longer monitor for a reply on a sent message).

This is NOT an issue with mail polling, so logs on mail sessions seems inappropriate. This is altered behavior in eM Client itself. I don’t often monitor for replies, so I cannot be sure when this behavior changed, but it seems to have shown up in the last week, or two.

In addition …

I saw no means of searching on messages with the “Watch for reply” flag set on them. Today I got a notification from eM Client of a sent message that was set to watch for a reply. Yet before and then there was no message listed when I selected the Unreplied folder, so there was no way to see which message had the watch flag set on it nor a means to remove the flag. In the past, when I set a watch flag on a sent message, it would get listed in the Unreplied folder.

Is the Unreplied folder supposed to show all messages that have the watch flag set? If so, why was the Unreplied folder empty when selected instead of showing the message that had the watch flag set? If the Unreplied folder does not show messages with the watch flag set, what is the point of showing the Unreplied folder at all? How am I supposed to search all messages to find those with the watch flag set? I see no search option to look for watched messages?