Avoiding duplicating on moving

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Avoiding duplicating on moving

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I have been moving emails from one mail account to another. The original emails are not actually removed so I ended up copying many several times! Is there a way to move emails so they do not make duplicates, i.e. move not copy.
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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Moving (as opposed to copying) should result in the message(s) no longer being present in the original folder so they would not be available to move a second time. Is that source account set up as POP or IMAP? If IMAP what option is selected for “When I delete a message” under Tools->Account settings->Server settings?
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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Thanks - you may be right! I'll test it and see.
I have now done some more on this, and the problems seem to be with Gmail. I was moving (by drag & drop) from "Allmail" on Gmail to another account in Thunderbird. Then looking at Gmail via a browser they are not the same!
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Then looking at Gmail via a browser they are not the same!
Not sure what that means. Gmail's "Allmail" is simply a display of messages in all of the "folders" (they are actually labels, not folders) of the account on the Google server.
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Yes that's what I thought. There is something weird going on here. When I move Gmail messages in T'bird they reappear in gmail later.
Another point I just noticed, in T'bird I only see 15 messages in the Gmail Inbox, but going to gmail via browser there are dozens! I ca't see a setting that limits the visibility in T'bird. Very odd.
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in T'bird I only see 15 messages in the Gmail Inbox, but going to gmail via browser there are dozens! I
Make certain that Thunderbird is not set to display unread messages only. Use menu path View->Messages->Alll and NOT View->Messages->Unread.
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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There is no menu path "View - Messages"
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What version of Thunderbird are you running?
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78.10.0 - latest I think.
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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kjones2639 wrote:There is no menu path "View - Messages"
Actually, there is.

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Not on my version! Everything else is exactly as you show, just Messages is missing!(I'd show a screen grab if I knew how to add a photo to this reply!)
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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See this for info on posting a screen shot to the forum -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Posting_a_scr ... _the_forum
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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Those instructions don't seem to work. I uploaded it to Dropbox then enclosed the url link in but nothing is visible:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lz7zgwc6hv1ic ... e.png?dl=0
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Hi,
A FWIW...
After you've taken the screen shot/s...
Reduce it/them to around 600 x 500 or so in your favourite image editor, (Be sure to remove any personal info.)
& upload them to your favourite image hosting site.
> http://tinypic.com/ (If you use TinyPic, select "Message Board" from the "Resize" drop down.)
> https://imgur.com/
> https://imgbox.com/
> http://www.imagebam.com/
> http://postimages.org/

eg;...Using "postimages.org",
0/. Upload your image.
1/. Select > from the "Do not resize" drop down, 640 x 480.
2/. No expiration. (Leave as default or as you require.
3/. Choose > Images to upload.
3a/. After the image/s have been uploaded.
4/. Select > Hot Link for Forum.
5/. Paste that link in your forum thread.
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Re: Avoiding duplicating on moving

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Does the same menu list appear if you launch the application in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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