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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?
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
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I also am having same issue with my Google gmail and imap. Because of this "cannot move" issue and other time consuming and annoying other bugs, I've seriously considered using another email client. My reluctance to doing so is that I am not sure if I will trade one set of problems with another. Thoughts?
I have the same problem. When I delete the email, I can then move it from Trash to another folder.
I had seen other posts elsewhere that said to uncheck Show in IMAP for important, which did not resolve the issue for me. But when I did so for both important *and* starred, the issue went away. Thanks!
The problem with every solution offered is the fact that this is obviously a design error on the part of the developers of Outlook. Maybe someone from up high in M$ needs to put some heat on the developers responsible for outlook and tell them to fix their mistake.
This worked. Thanks so much! Once the important folder was taken off IMAP, I stopped getting that error message. Thanks again for your help!