Drag and drop between newsgroups

[Guest]

Has anyone figured how to drag and drop messages between newsgroups in mail.
I have a new machine that had vista home premium installed already. I am not
able to drag and drop messages from one newsgroup to another. I can drag a
message from the inbox but not from another newsgroup.

Valerie

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can't move or copy messages from one NG to another. That makes no
sense. What you can do is copy to local folders.

steve

 

[Guest]

I am able to copy between newsgroup folders in the old Outlook. I think this
is the same question someone else had but I don't see a resolution. I teach
online and I have multiple newsgroups with folders for each student. I used
to be able to copy between the folders for each newgroup. Now I don't get the
+ sign when I try to drag a message. I can drag a message from the inbox but
not from the newsgroup folders. Does this make sense?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You can copy (or drag) from a newsgroup folder to an email folder
(like Inbox) or to a custom folder, but you can't move anything *into*
a newsgroup folder. That makes sense since a newsgroup folder
is supposed to represent only messages that were actually posted
to that newsgroup.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Steve Cochran]

As Gary says, you can only copy to local folders.

steve

 

[Guest]

This is definitely something that worked in Outlook. I did it all the time.
When you dragged a message to another newsgroup folder a window opened up
with the message in it and you put a subject in it and then posted it.

I can still drag a message from my inbox to the newsgroup folders. So
what's the difference.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

This is definitely something that worked in Outlook. I did it all the
time.
When you dragged a message to another newsgroup folder a window opened up
with the message in it and you put a subject in it and then posted it.

I can still drag a message from my inbox to the newsgroup folders. So
what's the difference.

I can do that in Windows Mail.

 

[Steve Cochran]

I've only use OE and haven't used Outlook that much, so I don't know about
Outlook. I thought only OE did newsgroups.

steve

 

[Guest]

Sorry I am referring to OE. This is definitely something that works in OE.
Right now I'm having to revert to my old machine with OE to drag and drop
messages into my folders in the same newsgroup as well as in different
newgroups. This is something I do every day. When I have a message that I
want to post to all of my students folders. I create one. Then drag then
drag and drop it into all of the other folders. Like I said I can do this in
the same newgroup as well as different newsgroup folders.

So I don't know why your saying that you can copy messages between
newsgroups.
I've just done about 50 of them this morning in OE.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Okay. Then they changed it between OE and WinMail. That's not something I
ever did, so I didn't know it could be done in OE.

The solution unfortunately is to drag the messages from the NGs to local
folders and that will let you merge the NGs that way.

steve