Just encountered similar problem. Patch didn't make any difference. Following
your method I clicked on the top message then scrolled down to the last in
the folder, held down my shift key and clicked on that. All the messages were
selected. Hit the Delete key and... whoosh! One empty Deleted Items folder.
Thanks for the tip!
"chrisfrostic" wrote:
> ok, that might work...
> Downloaded and ran the patch.
> but would not bulk delete(empty) the contents of the deleted folder.
>
> so.. highlighted top message there. then del(key), Enter(key)... until
> empty...
> Went pretty quick...
>
> Then new mail came in... deleted a bunch (to the folder).
> quit and re-entered mail. Still had emails in the folder.
> Right click on folder, Delete contents... now they go...
> Seems more like corrupted email stuck, but maybe that download fixed it
> somewhat...
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher W. Frostic
> Frostic.com
>
>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:
>
> > "Deanna Collier" <Deanna Collier_at_discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:7EF8D292-3A62-4994-9C1A-620C4FF704D8_at_microsoft.com...
> > >I had this problem about 3 weeks ago. I tried to change over to Windows
> > >Live
> > > Mail and there was a problem changing over. I could not receive my mail.
> > > For 1 1/2 weeks I used my IP webmail, but that became a pain. I then
> > > uninstalled Windows Live Mail (my IP provider told me that Windows Live
> > > Mail
> > > is still in beta, so there are alot more gliches.) When I uninstalled
> > > Windows
> > > Live it gave me Windows Mail back.
> > > I reentered my account info. and it was running okay. I still had 3,000
> > > e-mails in my deleted file that I could not delete. I read somewhere in
> > > one
> > > on these posted messages that you could delete one at a time, so I found
> > > what
> > > they were talking about and started deleting one at a time. I had deleted
> > > around 50 e-mails when all of a sudden a window popped up saying it was
> > > deleting messages. When it got through it had deleted half of the 3,000.
> > > So
> > > I again started deleting one by one, and after 10 messages the window
> > > popped
> > > up again and started deleting. That time it deleted all of them. That has
> > > been 3 days ago and I can now delete from my deleted messages again the
> > > old
> > > way.
> >
> >
> > Get and install this fix:
> > Messages may be stuck in the Outbox when you use Windows Mail on a computer
> > that is running Windows Vista
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941090
> > It works on other folders, too.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
> > Do not send mail.
> >
Received on Thu Nov 01 2007 - 05:22:01 PDT