Drag and drop messages in Mail not working.

I no longer seem to be able to drag messages from my Inbox mailbox to another 'On My Mac' mailbox. I can still use the contextual menu or menu bar 'move to' command to move it to a specific box, but no mouse-dragging. Even "click-wait-drag" doesn't work...
I see this issue appeared with and has been about since, 10.6.1 but the two topics (I could find), discussing it have been Archived

Try doing a save as to the desktop and then try dragging thr .rtf file to the usb drive

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Typing in all capitals is regarded as shouting.
As far as I can tell your post is filtered to the Messages app and not the Mail tagging.
You would have to supply a lot more detail as to what you are calling "your Mail Folder"
To help this is part of my Side bar list
My "On My Mac" folder probably has 20 folders plus some of those have sub folders.
Out of sight are two sets of IMAP Folders (held on the Servers)
As it is the Mail App I also may not know the answer. (I was filtering for Messages (App))
9:02 PM Thursday; November 27, 2014
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