Microsoft KB Archive/817886

= You may receive a &quot;Some items could not be deleted&quot; error message when you delete items from an Outlook folder =

Article ID: 817886

Article Last Modified on 1/12/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

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For a Microsoft Outlook 2002 version of this article, see 289999.



For a Microsoft Outlook 2000 version of this article, see 274492.



SYMPTOMS
When you try to permanently delete many items (more than 5000) from a Microsoft Outlook folder, you may receive the following error message:

Some items could not be deleted. They were either moved or already deleted, or access was denied.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, select and delete fewer items at the same time. Repeat this procedure until all the items that you want to delete have been deleted.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
To delete items permanently from an Outlook folder, select the items that you want to delete, and then press SHIFT+DELETE. This procedure deletes the items completely from Outlook, and does not move them to the Deleted Items folder.

Additional query words: ol2003 OL2007

Keywords: kbprb kberrmsg KB817886

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