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Lion, Mail ... Cannot Move Messages

I recently encountered an error when I try to move a message from my Inbox to a mailbox on my Mac. A mailbox inside Mail.

I get this message ...

An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox "the name of the mailbox".

I shut down Mail and ran Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. At first, that seemed to correct this issue. However, it quickly popped back up.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, please post this issue to Apple so that it will get addressed in the next Lion/Mail release.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Thanks.

Posted on Aug 4, 2011 10:27 AM

17 replies

Oct 3, 2013 2:33 PM in response to 1 Open Loop

I have spent all day on this, trying different ways of dragging emails, calling my email hosting service, etc...after reading all your posts, ESPECIALLY lewisfromcharlotte, i tried going into each box for each email account and making sure "organize by conversation" is UNchecked...must be unchecked in every email box for each account used in the transfer (inbox, sent, junk, drafts, trash, etc) or it won't work. Once this is done, it's a breeze...thank you lewis!

Oct 3, 2013 3:21 PM in response to msiniscal

nevermind - still screwing up - i give up!

Lion, Mail ... Cannot Move Messages