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Freakin awesome.....this has been annoying me for years and your suggestions solved it....thanks so much.
Outlook: Cannot move the items. The operation cannot be performed because the message has been changed.
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This message often pops up when I try to move an email to a folder after reading and closing it. This happens even though I have not changed the message at all other than to read it. If I select another message and then try to move the original message again, it will work.
I have been getting this problem for years and I am sick of it! everytime I try to tidy my inbox it takes hours because I have to keep moving away and then back to the email.
I know this message pops up in relation to other scenarios but I would like to concentrate on just this one problem as otherwise there are too many off topic answers.
This has been happening for at least 6 YEARS is no-one from Microsoft able to help with this problem?
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Anonymous
2023-07-25T01:14:35+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-06-22T22:23:51+00:00 I've also had this problem in recent years and haven't found a way to fix it. The workaround is to select another message in the inbox, pause, then select the message I want to move and then drag-n-drop it to the destination folder. This workaround usually works for me.
That works!!!!
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Anonymous
2023-03-29T19:33:11+00:00 NONE OF THESE FIXED MY ISSUE EITHER> Cannot move the items
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Anonymous
2023-02-18T16:19:49+00:00 This exactly solved my issues. Thank you Deborah Corr.
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Anonymous
2022-12-07T01:48:25+00:00 This worked. Thanks so much! Once the important folder was taken off IMAP, I stopped getting that error message. Thanks again for your help!