Moving folders between collections in Pine :-)

"Beartooth" <beartooth-iVX72re7JJ/[email protected]> 25 Jun 2006 17:33:31 -0500
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Good news for once, or at least I think so. With a chance to take a deep
breath or two, I found a (perhaps kludgy) way to move whole folders
between one of Pine's folder collections and another.

I simply opened one, which I had inadvertently let get added to a
collection where it didn't belong; selected all the messages; told it
Apply, then Save; and hit ^N till I got to the collection where it
belonged. Then I typed the name of the folder -- the same name, since the
one I was moving had only things that belonged in a folder of that name
that was already there in the right collection. 

Then I applied Delete and Expunge (needlessly, but it made the next step
go faster). Hit L to get back to the folder in the list it had gotten into
in error; hit Delete; and since Pine had already appended the misplaced
messages to the right folder -- it appends automatically -- I was done.

I've done it to three now, and it has worked all three times.

It'd've been more satisfactory to get all the duplicates moved in one go,
but it does work piecemeal this way.

Unless, as sometimes happens, I've goofed in some way I don't imagine ...

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