Can't delete message from outbox or inbox

I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That didn't
help.
How do you clear the forms cache?

Thanks,

Huck
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing your
forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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How to ask a question:
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After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:

| I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the message
|
| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
| problem persists, restart Outlook"
|
| I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
| message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I try
| to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
| delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
|
| Any idea what could be going on?
|
|
|
| Thanks for any help,
|
|
|
| Huck

Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Custom Forms->Manage Forms->Clear Cache.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:

| I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That
| didn't help.
| How do you clear the forms cache?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Huck
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
| news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing
| your forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?
|
| --�
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
| How to ask a question:
| http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
|
|
| After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
|
|| I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the message
||
|| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
|| problem persists, restart Outlook"
||
|| I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
|| message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I try
|| to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
|| delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
||
|| Any idea what could be going on?
||
||
||
|| Thanks for any help,
||
||
||
|| Huck

Thanks Milly. I followed your instructions and cleared the cache. However,
I still have the same problem. Outlook also won't let me dismiss reminders.

Any other ideas of what I might do?

Thanks,

Huck
"Milly Staples" <what@ever> wrote in message
news:0-qdnbZDDtI-aPPVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@comcast.com...
> Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Custom Forms->Manage Forms->Clear Cache.
>
> --
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
>
>
> After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
>
> | I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That
> | didn't help.
> | How do you clear the forms cache?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Huck
> | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
> | news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> | Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing
> | your forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?
> |
> | --�
> | Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> |
> | Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> | How to ask a question:
> | http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> |
> |
> | After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
> |
> || I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the message
> ||
> || "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
> || problem persists, restart Outlook"
> ||
> || I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
> || message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I try
> || to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
> || delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
> ||
> || Any idea what could be going on?
> ||
> ||
> ||
> || Thanks for any help,
> ||
> ||
> ||
> || Huck
>
>

Display your calendar in a Table view and add the reminders column. Then go
through until you find the errant reminder. Highlight it but do no open it,
then press delete.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:

| Thanks Milly. I followed your instructions and cleared the cache.
| However, I still have the same problem. Outlook also won't let me
| dismiss reminders.
|
| Any other ideas of what I might do?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Huck
| "Milly Staples" <what@ever> wrote in message
| news:0-qdnbZDDtI-aPPVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@comcast.com...
|| Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Custom Forms->Manage Forms->Clear
|| Cache.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
||
||| I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That
||| didn't help.
||| How do you clear the forms cache?
|||
||| Thanks,
|||
||| Huck
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
||| news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
||| Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing
||| your forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?
|||
||| --�
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
||| How to ask a question:
||| http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
|||
|||
||| After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
|||
|||| I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the
|||| message
||||
|||| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
|||| problem persists, restart Outlook"
||||
|||| I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
|||| message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I
|||| try to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
|||| delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
||||
|||| Any idea what could be going on?
||||
||||
||||
|||| Thanks for any help,
||||
||||
||||
|||| Huck

Milly,
I did as you said but I got the same error message and it would not delete
the reminder. I can't delete the reminder, can't delete the messages in the
outbox, or messsages in Drafts.

I uninstalled MS Office, then reinstalled. It had the same problem.

I seem to remember that Outlook 2002 had a limit on the size data file it
could handle. Mine is 1,907,216 KB.

I'm getting really desperate. Can you suggest anything else?

Thanks,

Huck
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <what@ever> wrote in message
news:uTSsFMx3IHA.4856@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Display your calendar in a Table view and add the reminders column. Then
> go
> through until you find the errant reminder. Highlight it but do no open
> it,
> then press delete.
>
> --
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
>
>
> After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
>
> | Thanks Milly. I followed your instructions and cleared the cache.
> | However, I still have the same problem. Outlook also won't let me
> | dismiss reminders.
> |
> | Any other ideas of what I might do?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Huck
> | "Milly Staples" <what@ever> wrote in message
> | news:0-qdnbZDDtI-aPPVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@comcast.com...
> || Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Custom Forms->Manage Forms->Clear
> || Cache.
> ||
> || --
> || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> ||
> || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> || How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> ||
> ||
> || After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
> ||
> ||| I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That
> ||| didn't help.
> ||| How do you clear the forms cache?
> |||
> ||| Thanks,
> |||
> ||| Huck
> ||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
> ||| news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> ||| Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing
> ||| your forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?
> |||
> ||| --�
> ||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> |||
> ||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> ||| How to ask a question:
> ||| http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> |||
> |||
> ||| After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
> |||
> |||| I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the
> |||| message
> ||||
> |||| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
> |||| problem persists, restart Outlook"
> ||||
> |||| I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
> |||| message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I
> |||| try to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
> |||| delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
> ||||
> |||| Any idea what could be going on?
> ||||
> ||||
> ||||
> |||| Thanks for any help,
> ||||
> ||||
> ||||
> |||| Huck
>
>

I discovered something else. I can move some of the files I can't delete to
another Outlook Data file, then delete it from that file. It is now deleted
from the file that I am having problems with. The does not work if I do a
Cut & paste. Only if I move the file by dragging it with the mouse.

??????

Huck
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <what@ever> wrote in message
news:uTSsFMx3IHA.4856@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Display your calendar in a Table view and add the reminders column. Then
> go
> through until you find the errant reminder. Highlight it but do no open
> it,
> then press delete.
>
> --
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
>
>
> After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
>
> | Thanks Milly. I followed your instructions and cleared the cache.
> | However, I still have the same problem. Outlook also won't let me
> | dismiss reminders.
> |
> | Any other ideas of what I might do?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Huck
> | "Milly Staples" <what@ever> wrote in message
> | news:0-qdnbZDDtI-aPPVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@comcast.com...
> || Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Custom Forms->Manage Forms->Clear
> || Cache.
> ||
> || --
> || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> ||
> || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> || How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> ||
> ||
> || After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
> ||
> ||| I'm using Outlook 2002. I tried running Detect and Repair. That
> ||| didn't help.
> ||| How do you clear the forms cache?
> |||
> ||| Thanks,
> |||
> ||| Huck
> ||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" <What@ever> wrote in message
> ||| news:eLzOOng3IHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> ||| Have you tried running a Detect and Repair? Have you tried clearing
> ||| your forms cache? What version of Outlook are you using?
> |||
> ||| --�
> ||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> |||
> ||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> ||| How to ask a question:
> ||| http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> |||
> |||
> ||| After furious head scratching, Huck Rorick asked:
> |||
> |||| I tried to delete an email from Outbox. When I do I get the
> |||| message
> ||||
> |||| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the
> |||| problem persists, restart Outlook"
> ||||
> |||| I restart Outlook, restart the computer, but still get the same
> |||| message. If I try to move the message I also get an error. If I
> |||| try to dismiss a calendar reminder, I get the same error. I try to
> |||| delete from the Inbox and get the same error.
> ||||
> |||| Any idea what could be going on?
> ||||
> ||||
> ||||
> |||| Thanks for any help,
> ||||
> ||||
> ||||
> |||| Huck
>
>