You need to use the old method of drag and drop.. that is mouse down on the mail box then mouse up where you want it. it will place it below where your curser is which sucks and I cannot get this to always work. In fact it's like a 40 percent chance I can get this to work.
Good luck. On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > I tried drag and drop on my local mail boxes. I used the arrow keys to locate > the new out of sequence mail box which contained some entries and then used > the arrow keys to locate the mail box after which the out of sequence mail > box should be positioned. I then asked my iMac to drag the out of sequence > mail box to the new position. There was then several seconds delay and > eventually VO said that it had failed to position the out of sequence mail > box. > > When you tried drag and drop were the mail boxes you tried to drag empty? Did > you try this on the latest Mountain Lion release (10.8.2)? > > Many thanks. > > Paul Hopewell > On 19 Oct 2012, at 23:27, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had the same issue. you need to drag and drop the order of mail boxes or >> That's what I had to do anyways. >> >> good luck. >> On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I am using the latest release of Apple Mail. I have about 20 local mail >>> boxes in which I save messages. I expected these to be in alphabetical >>> order but they are not. I have checked the first character of the mail box >>> names for upper or lower case and they are all upper case. >>> >>> So how can I sort my list of mail boxes so that they are in alphabetical >>> order? Currently they seem to be in the date/time order in which the mail >>> boxes were originally created. >>> >>> Many thanks for any tips... >>> >>> Paul Hopewell >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>> >>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
