Drag and Drop Emails

[lmnope]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Email Client: Exchange Within entourage, when I drag and drop an email from my inbox to another folder, it "copy/pastes" it instead of moving it permanently so it stays in the original location where I was trying to move it from. Seems the only way around this is to right click on the email and select "Move to" and then select a folder (but I have dozens of folders and this is not quick at all).

Is there a way to change my settings so when I drag and drop emails, it's a "move" action instead of a "copy/paste"? I feel like I've exhausted checking the Preferences and System Preferences for this.

Thanks.

 

[Diane Ross]

Exchange Within entourage, when I drag and drop an email from my inbox to
another folder, it "copy/pastes" it instead of moving it permanently so it
stays in the original location where I was trying to move it from. Seems the
only way around this is to right click on the email and select "Move to" and
then select a folder (but I have dozens of folders and this is not quick at
all).

Is there a way to change my settings so when I drag and drop emails, it's a
"move" action instead of a "copy/paste"? I feel like I've exhausted checking
the Preferences and System Preferences for this.

When you move messages from the Exchange folders to folders "On My Computer"
it is copying from the Exchange server to your computer.

Use command-drag.

This will force a move instead of a copy. it works just like drag in
files in the Finder - between different servers (and moving from an
exchange or IMAP folder to a local folder is moving between server) the
file/email is copied by default. Cmd-drag forces a move instead.
Dragging between different folders on the same server moves by default,
but a copy can be forced bu holding down the Option key when dragging.

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