Can't Delete Email in Outlook Express

I had an email with an attachment that I could not open, move or delete - it would just freeze my PC and my cursor would be inhibited until I stopped OE in the task manager window.

I put 2 of your suggestions together and it worked! The email message has been deleted. I disabled my anti-virus auto protect for a few moments, then went into my INBOX and highlighted the message, then did the SHIFT/DELETE and that did the trick! Thanks for your expertise!

A friend of mine is using Outlook Exprss 6.0. He has an older machine. When he deletes messages from his inbox and closes down Outlook the messages come back when he restarts Outlook. How do I get this to stop? He has message that are a couple of month old that keep coming back.

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Thanks for the advice - I got sorted by the deleting dbx files. Just a note - AutoCad uses this extension so at first it confused me but when I looked at the dates I soon found the correct folder

Can't delete file addresses.

I downloaded a large file(7,000 email addresses)

in Outlook which already had 100 files with 50 email addresses ea. Now I cannot delete anything. It allows me to delete names or files, but the name or file pops back up.How do I fix the delete function?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I'm a bit confused when you say you're trying to delete "files" while in Outlook. Do you mean individual emails, address book contacts, or something else?

i can not delete emails without opening it up and then delete.

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THANK YOU-THANK Y0U-THANK YOU. I had a problem with deleting attachments in the e-mail section and i read your articales and low and behold there was an answer that did work, God i love this site. one again Thank you. Shift/delete and they are gone.

I have mail in my inbox, when I try to delete it I end up with a line through it but it won't delete. Please advise. Thanks

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I don't know what html tags mean. I'm having a problem in deleteing my old email address all together.Everytime i go to send a email my old email address pops up to send it.I've tried everything to get it completely removed.I went to my old server con.and they said they completely removed it all.Well i just found out that peoplepc is automatically created in outlook express also,but i can't find out how to delete it from there,and sometimes i don't receive my email right.

When highlighting an email, then selecting to delete, it also deletes the one below it. Even though the email below wasn't highlighted.

After trying lots of other "fixes" I simply disabled the preview pane and hit Shift Delete and all was well again. THANKS SO MUCH.

Question about: Deleting Outlook Express dbx files.

I am not computer savvy and I have a small computer hard drive (13.9 GB).

Over a year ago I had a situation where my 13.9 GB was getting used up and less than 25% of free space available. I didn't understand what was taking up the free space. I don't store music, play games, store many videos or use the pc for business.etc. I mostly use my computer to read things on the internet, communicate via e-mail, write some eBay auctions, and store jpg of family photos. Sometimes I do some photoshop activities.

So I wondered where the Free Space was going.

It seemed like it was used up by e-mail dbx files.

This is how I get my e-mail:

It first goes to my Yahoo DSL server which downloads it to my Outlook Express (rather than me having to go to Yahoo to read mail). One night while trying to figure out how to get more space by getting rid of stuff I discovered a folder called Identities in the Application Data file. I opened that and kept opening the next file and the next until I came to a bunch of DBX file folders named Inbox, Outbox, delete, sent, drafts as well as pop3 folders. These contained a huge amount of material. I figured it was all the e-mail that were sent from Yahoo to my outlook express. I couldn't actually open and read these e-mails but they were pretty large according to properties.

So I deleted the complete Identities folder and BANG! ...I recovered about half my hard drive's free space. And my computer started running much quicker.

A few minutes after I deleted Identities they reappeared in my Outlook Express boxes because Yahoo DSL re-sent them from my server. So I went to Yahoo and deleted them from Yahoo. Then re-deleted Outlook Express's folders. I was so glad to get the Free Space back and speed up my computer.

I'm wondering what would be the purpose of keeping all that old stuff on my small hard drive? Are there some settings I should correct on my computer? Do most people save everything that they receive, send and delete? I save e-mail at Yahoo for a few weeks.

But why have it in dbx files which it can't be read anyway?

Now that I've found this website and have read something about Outlook Express dbx files...I'm wondering if there is something else I should be doing instead of this to prevent using up Free Space on the disk? It's seems ridiculous to save every e-mail that comes in or goes out. Eventually most of my hard disk would be full of unreadable e--mail in dbx folders. Am I correct?

EDITOR'S NOTE: You're correct that the DBX files are the place that Outlook stores all your email. They are unreadable only in the sense that they're not plain text, so you can't open them with a text editor or word processor. Outlook (which understands the format of the DBX file) can read them just fine. The problem seems to be that you're storing your email in two places. I recommend that when you download your email, you tell Outlook to delete it from the Yahoo server right away. Then you can manage your Outlook inbox and sent folders as needed, deleting any old or unwanted items.

Hello...I need help please. It seems that the delete button just doesn't work. The emails I click onto will highlight in blue but when I click to delete nothing happens. I am just about computer illiterate so I need to know word for word and which button to press etc if you could help me.
Thank you

Just this afternoon, all of a sudden I cannot delete emails. I am told to use scanpst.exe to clean files, but this is not work. Cannot delete.
Please help.

Tried the "pressing the Shift and Delete keys after highlighting the message" and it worked. Thanx so much !!!!!!!

I had the same problem, I created another FOLDER called "Hard to DELETE" under "Local Folders" and then deleted that and it shows up under "DELETED", then I just drag my emails that I want to delete to the "Hard to DELETE" folder, and after a month or so delete it and start all over again.

I have I'm using Windows 2000, Outlook Express 6.

On Dec. 19, I received an email from a fellow volunteer.

As soon as I click on it, everything freezes up. I ahe to either shut down, or sometimes I get a message "This program is not responding" and then I choose "close" and I can get back to my other emails without shutting down. I'm not having a problem sending or receiving emails.

I cannot delete or move this email.
I had my service provider (Rogers) delete it from their files, but that doesn't help.

I also tried going to view/Layout, and UNchecking Show Previous Pane, then right cicking this email, but doesn't work.

Any suggestions? I do not want to empty my inbox if I can avoid it.

I cannot delete any email from outlok express.