work around for 'Impossible To delete' message

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 anti-virus program stopping something in its tracks. At any
rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.

Actually the error message I rec'd was 'an unknown error has occured' or
something very close to that.

"Dave Horne - The Netherlands" wrote:

> 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 anti-virus program stopping something in its tracks. At any
> rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.

It's not clear what you did. When I right-click on the Deleted Items
folder (or any other system-created 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> wrote in message
news:88EBDA6F-A627-4F93-983D-3D8D599C8AA7@microsoft.com...
>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 anti-virus program stopping something in its tracks. At any
> rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.

C:\Users\David Candy\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local
Folders\Deleted Items

Try deleting the folder. Replace my name above with yours.

"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
news:O36PowIXHHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> It's not clear what you did. When I right-click on the Deleted Items
> folder (or any other system-created 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> wrote in message
> news:88EBDA6F-A627-4F93-983D-3D8D599C8AA7@microsoft.com...
>>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 anti-virus program stopping something in its tracks. At
>> any
>> rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.
>

"Dave Horne - The Netherlands" <Dave Horne - The
Netherlands@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:88EBDA6F-A627-4F93-983D-3D8D599C8AA7@microsoft.com...
>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 anti-virus program stopping something in its tracks. At any
> rate, I solved my 'problem' this way.

Mark the messages as read and then try deleting them. That just worked for
me with three messages.

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