work around for 'Impossible To delete' message
Posted by admin on Sep 21st, 2006
I had 10 or so messages in my Delete folder and several others in my In box and every time I went to delete them I would receive the 'Impossible to delete' message (or something like that).What I did was this, I simply right clicked on the folder in question and deleted he items. I could not delete all of them at once, but I did manage to delete all of them without having to open and close the program. I have seen other threads here with that same problem.I have no idea what the source of the problem is but I suspect it might have to do with my antivirus program stopping something in its tracks. At any rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.
Sep 22nd, 2006 at 09:33 pm
Actually the error message I rec'd was 'an unknown error has occured' or something very close to that. "Dave Horne The Netherlands" wrote:
Sep 23rd, 2006 at 11:04 pm
It's not clear what you did. When I rightclick on the Deleted Items folder (or any other systemcreated folder like Outbox), "Delete" is grayed out, so that's not a doable action.Gary VanderMolen "Dave Horne The Netherlands" <Dave Horne The Netherlands@discussions.microsoft.com>
Sep 25th, 2006 at 12:47 am
C:\Users\David Candy\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders\Deleted ItemsTry deleting the folder. Replace my name above with yours."Gary VanderMolen"
Sep 30th, 2006 at 04:44 pm
"Dave Horne The Netherlands" <Dave Horne The Netherlands@discussions.microsoft.com> Mark the messages as read and then try deleting them. That just worked for me with three messages. Frank Saunders, MSMVP OE/WM fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.