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Thunderbird not moving more than 200 messages at a time

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Hello . I am trying to move 2500 emails from a subfolder of the "saved" folder to another folder within the "saved" subfolder. I select the first one, scroll down to the last one and then push shift+click to select all of the emails. I then right click and click on "move to" then select the folder I want to move them to. Thunderbird says that it is moving the messages. When I check the folder it displays all of the emails in the list, a few seconds later it updates from the server again and only 200 emails have been moved. I then select the remaining 2300 emails and try again, and again it only moves 200 of them. A process that should have taken a few minutes has taken nearly an hour. I'd be grateful if I can have some help with this. I last used Thunderbird in April this year (2022) and this was never a problem (I regularly group my emails into lots of 2500 to make it easier to sort them in batches). I am using AOL email accessing via IMAP and am using the latest version of thunderbird. Thanks.

Hello . I am trying to move 2500 emails from a subfolder of the "saved" folder to another folder within the "saved" subfolder. I select the first one, scroll down to the last one and then push shift+click to select all of the emails. I then right click and click on "move to" then select the folder I want to move them to. Thunderbird says that it is moving the messages. When I check the folder it displays all of the emails in the list, a few seconds later it updates from the server again and only 200 emails have been moved. I then select the remaining 2300 emails and try again, and again it only moves 200 of them. A process that should have taken a few minutes has taken nearly an hour. I'd be grateful if I can have some help with this. I last used Thunderbird in April this year (2022) and this was never a problem (I regularly group my emails into lots of 2500 to make it easier to sort them in batches). I am using AOL email accessing via IMAP and am using the latest version of thunderbird. Thanks.

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With IMAP those move transactions all happen on the server. Most likely the server is the limiting factor here. Move messages in batches, not all at once.