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icon1.gif   Moving individual messages in a thread, posted by Eoin Butler on Sat Sep 13 23:34:37 2008 
    icon2.gif   Re: Moving individual messages in a thread, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Sep 18 14:39:17 2008 
Message ID: 65981     Entry time: Thu Sep 18 14:39:17 2008     In reply to: 65973
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version:  
Subject: Re: Moving individual messages in a thread 

 

Eoin Butler wrote:

It is possible that the Move to... and Copy to... commands can be configured so that when they operate on a message that is part of a thread, that only that message will be moved, instead of the whole thread?

 

 This has not been implemented on purpose. Assume you have a thread with

A

    B

       C

So A links to B, B links back to A and so on. If you would move now B into another logbook, A and C would point to an entry which does not exist any more. Furthermore, C may contain some sentences which are a reply to something which has been said in B. So even if the "Move To" mechanism would re-link A to C and C to A, the entry C would maybe make no sense any more if B is missing. That's why you only can move threads as a whole. If you want to move individual messages, don't use replies. You can actually disable the reply command in the configuration file.

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