All that means is that something is holding a reference to the original item
and it's taking a while for it to go away. That's classic behavior for
something that's finally getting hit by the garbage collector and not being
fully released until then. You're going to have to put your detective's hat
on to find what that is.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Rog" wrote in message ...
Yes it seems if I do wait some period of time after deleting an item from
the contacts folder it will be picked up that it has moved into the
Deleted Items Folder.
What is odd too is, I used OutlookSpy to look at PR_PARENT_ENTRYID and it
shows the deleted items folder enntry, but if I use the same in my code:
safeMailitem.get_Fields(235471106); it will return the entryid of the
Contacts folder.