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Whenenever I use 'move' to move a group of emails from a search, Thunderbird makes three unread copies in the local folder. How do I stop this?

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I have a large set of local folders in which I file my historic emails. But whenever I use 'search' to find a group of emails within my Inbox, or indeed from any local folder source, then use 'move' to move them into the appropriate local folder, I find that Thunderbird has not only moved the emails in question, its has copied them in triplicate, and these unwanted copies are marked as 'unread'. So, if I move 10 emails, I will have to delete 30 unnecessary copies.

It is extremely frustrating and time consuming, and has prevented me keep my email filing up to date.

I have a large set of local folders in which I file my historic emails. But whenever I use 'search' to find a group of emails within my Inbox, or indeed from any local folder source, then use 'move' to move them into the appropriate local folder, I find that Thunderbird has not only moved the emails in question, its has copied them in triplicate, and these unwanted copies are marked as 'unread'. So, if I move 10 emails, I will have to delete 30 unnecessary copies. It is extremely frustrating and time consuming, and has prevented me keep my email filing up to date.

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Try using filters that you run manually on your inbox That way you only have to set up your search -criteria ones and you can high-light and run all at ones.

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Gnospen
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1132658

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Gnospen
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Try using filters that you run manually on your inbox That way you only have to set up your search -criteria ones and you can high-light and run all at ones.

LondonUK
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Thank you Gnospen - that worked!