Storing read Emails in new folder.

[anotheoldgit]

Is there a way to select all Emails in one's 'Received Box' and then to send them all to a special newly created Folder in one's desktop?

Or does one have to highlight each Email individually, and then copy & paste to the new folder?

The Emails are in Outlook Express, and the computers operating system is MS XP.

[mccfluff]

not sure what its called left hand side of the keyboard above the cntrl key there is a key with an arrow on it
highligh the first email and holding that arrow key down use the down arrow key to highlight all of the emails you want to transfer then drag them into you folder

i hope that makes sense :-)

[ChuckFickens]

That'll be the shift key :)

Holding down shift lets you click on email at the top of a set and one at the bottom and all in-between will be selected.

Holding down control lets you select multiple individual emails in any order you want.

Or if you want the whole folder click on one email and then press CTRL and A to select everything in the folder.

[mccfluff]

lol @shift key

total memory wipe out :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you both for your reply.

But don't clicking on the first Email and then Edit, select all do the same, that is highlight all the Emails?

But that is not the problem, mccfluff instructs me to 'drag' them all into my folder.

How can I do this when the folder is hidden from view, ie perhaps on my 'desk-top'?

[ummmm]

Make your screen smaller. Click the square next to the red X at the top right of the screen.

[ChuckFickens]

Or select all in whatever method you prefer (yes edit > select all does exactly the same a CTRL + A or selecting the top and bottom email with shift held dow) and then copy and paste the whole lot at once.

[jackthehat]

If you right-click the word 'Inbox' you will get a drop-down menu including 'New Folder', which will then appear underneath your Inbox. You can rename it what you like and then by left-clicking on the envelope icon accompanying your e-mail you can hold and drag this into your new file.

It tides them out of your Inbox and is how I store mine rather than on the Desk-top.

[murraymints]

I get that many rubbish e mails i delete them when read...

[cathfromsaron]

just click on the left hand box (same as when deleting) and then click 'move to ...' and then click on whichever folder title you have ready!

i have ebay stuff, funnies and important!

[chelle7272]

I have a few folders under my inbox like jth says, the rest get deleted

[anotheoldgit]

Some very interesting answers thank you all so much.

But I am afraid I have tried them all and still cannot get them into my special folder on my desk top, even when I reduce the size of the screen to enable me to see the folder on my desk top.

I can drag individual emails on their own, but when I highlight them all and try and drag the lot it just shows a little circle with a line through it, and is unable to drag them into the folder.

The only one that works is how JTH suggests, but that adds yet another folder under the ins, outs, and deletes etc. in Outlook Express.

This I don't really want, because once I get them all into a folder I want to be able to transfer them onto a disc, and then delete the originals off my computer.

Hope I am not being a nuisance, but I really do need to carry out this operation.

[bazwillrun]

open the recieved box to see all the emails in the view panel
put your cursor over one of the emails to highlight it but not to open it
thenCtrl+A to highlight all the emails
then Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard
then go to the new folder open it and press Ctrl+V to past them into it

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you so much bazwillrun, I will give that a try.