Can't move an email message that's already been moved: OL 2003

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david.f.jenkins

[Got no respone to my orginal post on this - am I the only that has
this problem?]

After I've read some mail in my Inbox, I'll move it to one of the
personal folders I've set up. Being *extremely* fallible, I sometimes
move it to the wrong folder. When I discover such an error, I'd like
to move it from the incorrect location to the correct one. When I
attempt the move, it whines that it cannot do the move because the item

has already been moved or deleted. I *know* that - I just want to
move it again!

Why is Outlook treating me so shabbily, and what can I do to move stuff

around, even after it's already been moved?
 
Edit->Undo Move.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| [Got no respone to my orginal post on this - am I the only that has
| this problem?]
|
| After I've read some mail in my Inbox, I'll move it to one of the
| personal folders I've set up. Being *extremely* fallible, I sometimes
| move it to the wrong folder. When I discover such an error, I'd like
| to move it from the incorrect location to the correct one. When I
| attempt the move, it whines that it cannot do the move because the
| item
|
| has already been moved or deleted. I *know* that - I just want to
| move it again!
|
| Why is Outlook treating me so shabbily, and what can I do to move
| stuff
|
| around, even after it's already been moved?
 
Milly said:
Edit->Undo Move.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| [Got no respone to my orginal post on this - am I the only that has
| this problem?]
|
| After I've read some mail in my Inbox, I'll move it to one of the
| personal folders I've set up. Being *extremely* fallible, I sometimes
| move it to the wrong folder. When I discover such an error, I'd like
| to move it from the incorrect location to the correct one. When I
| attempt the move, it whines that it cannot do the move because the
| item
|
| has already been moved or deleted. I *know* that - I just want to
| move it again!
|
| Why is Outlook treating me so shabbily, and what can I do to move
| stuff
|
| around, even after it's already been moved?
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Thanks, Milly. But: (You knew that was coming, didn't you?) It might
be a day or two later before I notice that an item has been misplaced
and need to move it again. Undo Move will no longer work, will it?

Also: why am I being constrained from the making second move? That
is, what's the reasoning behind introducing such a constraint?

I have now been doing more thorough experimentation on theis subject,
and I find that soemtimes I'm able to make the move, sometimes not. It
appear to be associated with whehter OL has been restarted in the
meantime, what folder I'm mving from/to etc. SOmetimes I don't get the
error message, but the move is simply ignored. Very oftern, after I
attempt such a move, leave OL, and then attempt to lrestart OL, I get a
popup that says simply "Operation failed." I wonder if I'm bumping
into a problem with my .pst file? It's roughly 2GB - is that a large
file, in the world of OL?

Thanks!
 
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