See if it will delete while working offline. File | Work Offline & View |
Layout: Uncheck the Preview Pane.

Did you also delete Sent Items with OE closed after moving any messages you
want to save to a user created folder?

Did you turn off e-mail scanning?
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"MargM" wrote in message
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"MargM" wrote in message
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Do the following for the Outbox, and if the problem persists, repeat for
Sent Items after you move any messages you wish to save to a local
folder you create.

Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store Folder will reveal the location of
your Outlook Express files. Press the Tab key to highlight the folder
location, then Ctrl+C. Close OE, then Start | Run | Ctrl+V will put the
location in the box - Click OK and you'll see the OE files. Otherwise,
write the location down and navigate to it in Windows Explorer.

Hi Bruce
Thanks for these details instructions ............ I followed
these........... The out box went to the recycle bin and when I opened
OE there was hopefully another out box

Bruce
This email is still in my out mail box but this time it didnt generate an
error message ???

Computers can be pesky machines at times !

Bye
MargM

Sent a test message to myself and the same thing happened . It stayed
in the out box but arrived OK in Margs mail box ? and I got the same
error message down the bottom on the screen of a little yellow triangle
Tried leaving this test message in the out mail box and going thru this
procedure again but IT didnt like that ..said was being used by another
. So moved my test message out and tried again ............. So now
have 2 out mail boxes in the recycled bin and the problem persists .
This computer is nearly 4 years old and never had this happen before or
with prevous computers ??

Is there something else I can try ?


Bye


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MargM
Beautiful Central Coast of NSW
Australia