Moving emails within outlook

ianbergman

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Oct 17, 2001
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So I've been trying to organize my Outlook 2003 email folders, and to do so I want to manually move large numbers of emails between folders. However, this has proven impossible, because every time I try, it tries to stuff all the selected emails into one big file.

For example, I highlight 400 messages that I want to move from one folder to another. I go to the edit menu, and choose the "move to folder" command and select the folder I wish to move the emails too. A message pops up saying "creating a new item from the selected items could take some time. Are you sure you want to create a new item from these 400 items?" If I say yes, I just get one big file. If I say no, nothing happens. HELP!!!!

There has to be a way to just move messages without moving them in a block of 10 or less at a time.
 
Aug 27, 2002
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just make your new folder and drag them to it using the folder list, it works fine for me....I get the same problem when doing the move to folder as well.