MacOS Sonoma Mail predictive move

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MacOS Sonoma Mail predictive move

This is not a question about Rules.

I'm not sure what to call the function that was present in the previous MacOs, but in Mail in the upper tool bar on the right where "Move v" is located, there sometimes would appear a suggested target mail folder which only took one click to move the specific email, rather than scrolling up and down the list of mail folders to find the correct folder, followed by drag and drop.

I am not seeing that predictive capability in Sonoma Mail. Is it gone now? Or maybe it takes a while for the Mail application to 'learn' the appropriate locations before it can attempt to make a logical prediction.

Any suggestions are appreciated!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 1, 2023 11:17 AM

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Answer 1

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Pablofp-YAID

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Oct 3, 2023 11:19 PM in response to Claude Crider

There are two icons for the Move to. The default one is the one you have found (a folder icon). If you right-click on the Toolbar and click on "Customise Toolbar...", you will find the old "Move to" that will provide you with some prediction. Just add it to your Toolbar. You can also remove the other.

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Answer 2

Oct 26, 2023 7:49 AM in response to Claude Crider

it seems it has been segmented into a new "feature" and wasn't automatically placed in the menu-bar. see reddit note: First concern was that Apple did away with this time saving feature, but when I hit customize toolbar I see that there are two icons for Move now. By adding the new one, it brings back the feature that the previous one use to have of icon with "move to..." next to it. Glad this still exists. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/14ymfk2/change_to_mac_mail_toolbar_in_sonoma_move_icon/

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pwoodr

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Oct 31, 2023 7:39 PM in response to Claude Crider

Seems to work normally in iOS but still doesn't work in macOS.

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Answer 4

Oct 9, 2023 11:45 AM in response to pwoodr

pwoodr,

It worked fine for me. You may want to try again to do precisely what Pablofp-YAID has suggested.

Not sure is this is a version related matter, but apparently this is functionality that has been around for a long while. Never hurts to make sure you are on the latest version.

Hope that helps,

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Oct 31, 2023 6:37 PM in response to realizetm

I've tried all the suggestion not only is the menu item move to predicted greyed out so is the move to toolbar. I've tried repairing mail, reindexing, syncing, rebuilding and clean install and no go. Any other ideas?

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pwoodr

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Oct 9, 2023 10:03 AM in response to Pablofp-YAID

this answer does not work. the function to predict where you might want to move a message does not work.

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stefluz

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Jan 12, 2024 1:29 AM in response to Pablofp-YAID

Thank you so much!! Easy once you know...:-)

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