Known issues MOVING local folders to GMAIL (IMAP)

does anyone know if there are any known issues (such as you cannot move a folder and its subfolders) when moving mail from a ON MY MAC Local Folder up to GMAIL which i am accessing via IMAP?
i seem to be able to do this very easy with the right click option when mail is in an INBOX on IMAP but when i try and do this to get info from my MAC PRO into GMAIL (so i have access to it on all my devices) it seems to LEAVE a copy in the Local Folder on my mac and then sometimes the information does not seem to get all the way transferred so i have to go back in and grab the remaining (?) email and move it again or i am grabbing the duplicate email that is in two places and copying it over a second time.
basically, it seems like sometimes it moves it, sometimes it copies it (?) and sometimes it crashes out?
TIA for any help

oof. you are /really/ awesome.
so - how do i know whether i am copying or moving from Local Mail to GMail IMAP?
i mean, when i have a local folder or local folder with subfolders i am literally moving (like drag and dropping) either the parent folder or the subfolder (or when things get really hairy i am dragging and dropping the mail in the subfolders) from one folder in Local Mail ("On My Mac") to the GMail folder.
is this moving? copying?
it is uber confusing (which the right click functionality for mail in a /normal/ IMAP folder is not...)
you know what i mean? i mean, when i get in and have to manually move actual email when something crashes i don't really know if i am re-moving or re-copying mail that has already been transferred or if i am just moving mail that did not get transferred due to a crash.
ALSO, it seems like it /sometimes/ will - well, er, arg - i guess in most cases it is copying the mail since when i do this i am usually having to go back in and verify the emails NOT READ (for instance it will have a red 5 on it or a red 28 or whatever) and then i am doing a delete of the folders that were supposed to have been copied because i am guessing that if the numbers are the same in this instanc then everything has been moved.
BUT sometimes these numbers are not the same which is why i had to post and why things got really hairy over here...
THANKS

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