Windows live mail cannot delete email unknown error

Trouble Noob Whisperer Moderator. Joined Nov 19, Messages 13, Reaction score 2, Hello Donald and welcome to the forum. I believe that, as of recently, Windows Live Mail has pretty much lost the ability to "sync" actions relating to mail, calendar and contacts for any of the following email accounts. I can't say for certain that, that is what you are experiencing as I myself quit using it a while back when Microsoft made the announcement that because of the new method that their email services were going to start using to sync, was going to stop working with Live Mail.

You should still be able to use the web interface to access and manage your mail through most browsers so you might try that method to perform any cleanup that is needed.

Regedit32 Moderator. Joined Mar 4, Messages 3, Reaction score 1, Hi Donald, Welcome to the Forum. Based on your efforts it sounds like one or more of the emails you are trying to delete are corrupted, or possibly a ghost image from some form of syncing issue, which could occur if you previously deleted the email via a web browser and then later when opening Windows Live Mail GUI on computer the syncing from this to the online server somehow failed.

Something you could attempt though is to delete the unwanted emails directly from their Storage folders, rather than from withing the WLM GUI. Joined Nov 19, Messages 5, Reaction score 1, I have needed to move on from Windows Live Mail, for the reasons stated by Trouble. Bot, the problem is not connected with the lack of sync, it is a random occurrence and, I would put it down as an unsolved bug. The easiest way I found, was to drag and drop them into the deleted folder. It will be , possibly, only one of the mails which is causing the problem, so you may find, if you have a number of them, that you will hit on the baddy and from then it iwill begin to operate normally again.

You can, if you wish, hold the shift key and select the messages one by one, until you get a popup saying a particular one cannot be selected.

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I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hello, Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. I would suggest you to follow the steps below on how to repair Windows Live Mail and check if it helps: 1.

Go to Control Panel. Restart your computer after the repair. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on September 19, I appreciate your suggestion, however, as I mentioned in my post I've already tried to repair Windows Live Essentials several times without any affect on the problem.

Thanks for your time and expertise I value all the help I can get. In reply to TombstoneSlim's post on September 19, I am having the same problem in deleting messages from the Deleted Items File. Have tried the above without success. In reply to TombstoneSlim's post on September 24, I am having the same problem in one computer.

You get an unknow error. Have you got some clue? Log into the account using the original email server site not from Windows Live Mail.