(I know this issue was answered a year back, but this is background info on Lotus Notes behaviour)

I found this thread while looking for info on Lotus Notes' object model for a bit of access from VBA and scripting tools. I've used Notes for ages

The way Notes uses folders means that a document (email etc) can be in more than one folder. It's not like a disk file being in only one folder by definition, it's more like tagging a message in a blog or on twitter, where several tags can be relevant. Think cross-references and you start to get the idea.

So simply putting a document into a folder doesn't move it out of where it is. And the Inbox is a folder in Notes's terms. Equally, deleting a document that's in the Inbox does what it says on the tin: it deletes the document from the database, so it disappears from both Inbox and wherever else it is (""Cleared" in this example).

What you have to do is put the document into your target folder and then use "remove from folder" to stop it appearing in the Inbox. In the Notes user interface, there is a "move to folder" option which does indeed do both operations in one click - but I don't know whether that is available from VBA. I suspect it isn't in order to give programmer control and because it would only be one extra statement to code.

Hope that's interesting & useful. Now back to my problem...