How do I get an 8mb and 11mb email out of my outbox?

[vegasdon159]

I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent them to my
email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send, and are stuck
in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can anyone tell me what to
do?

Don

 

[bxb7668]

Have you tried going into your outbox, highlighting them and pressing
delete?

 

[vegasdon159]

I tried that right after it happened on Monday, and have tried that every day
since, but they will not delete because they are being processed for
delivery. Problem is they are so large that they cannot be processed, and are
hung up in my outbox. Thanks for responding.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What version of Outlook?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, vegasdon159 asked:

| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent them
| to my email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send,
| and are stuck in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can
| anyone tell me what to do?
|
| Don

 

[Peter Foldes]

Version of OL please. Meanwhile try this.Place Outlook off-line, restart
Outlook and try to delete the messages then

 

[vegasdon159]

Professional 2003.

 

[vegasdon159]

It's office professional 2003. Any help is appreciated.

 

[vegasdon159]

I just did what you suggested and it worked!! Thank you for the info.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

See Peter's advice and glad it worked.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, vegasdon159 asked:

| Professional 2003.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| What version of Outlook?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, vegasdon159 asked:
||
||| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent them
||| to my email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to
||| send, and are stuck in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is
||| 11mb. Can anyone tell me what to do?
|||
||| Don

 

[Peter Foldes]

You are welcome

 

[rdrepass]

I have the same problem with a much bigger file (91 MB). I tried what you
said, but it will still not delete. Any other suggestions? I have OL 2003
as well.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

When you place Outlook in offline mode (File->Work Offline) and then close,
ensure it is completely closed before reopening using Task Manager. If any
instance of Outlook.exe is still active, kill it using task manager, wait
about a minute and then reopen Outlook. Then delete the file from your
Outbox.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, rdrepass asked:

| I have the same problem with a much bigger file (91 MB). I tried
| what you said, but it will still not delete. Any other suggestions?
| I have OL 2003 as well.
|
| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|
|| You are welcome
||
|| --
|| Peter
||
|| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
||
||
|| message |||
||| I just did what you suggested and it worked!! Thank you for the
||| info.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
|||| Version of OL please. Meanwhile try this.Place Outlook off-line,
|||| restart Outlook and try to delete the messages then
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
||||
|||| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
|||| message ||||| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent
||||| them to my
||||| email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send,
||||| and are stuck
||||| in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can anyone tell
||||| me what
||||| to
||||| do?
|||||
||||| Don

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

This is more involved but should work.

Create a new .pst file (file->new->outlook data file) and give it a
distinctive name. Make it the default location for new mail (File->Data
File Management). Close and reopen Outlook. Delete the mail from the old
outbox. Reverse your steps to reinstate your old .pst file as the default.
Close and reopen Outlook.



--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Max Mitchell asked:

| I have tried to do what has been suggested, but it doesn't work. I
| checked the task manager and there was no version of Outlook.exe
| running, yet I can't delete the message. The message is 4mb. Do you
| have any other suggestions?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| When you place Outlook in offline mode (File->Work Offline) and then
|| close, ensure it is completely closed before reopening using Task
|| Manager. If any instance of Outlook.exe is still active, kill it
|| using task manager, wait about a minute and then reopen Outlook.
|| Then delete the file from your Outbox.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, rdrepass asked:
||
||| I have the same problem with a much bigger file (91 MB). I tried
||| what you said, but it will still not delete. Any other suggestions?
||| I have OL 2003 as well.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
|||| You are welcome
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
||||
|||| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
||||
||||
|||| message |||||
||||| I just did what you suggested and it worked!! Thank you for the
||||| info.
|||||
||||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||||
|||||| Version of OL please. Meanwhile try this.Place Outlook off-line,
|||||| restart Outlook and try to delete the messages then
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Peter
||||||
|||||| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
|||||| message
|||||| ||||||| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent
||||||| them to my
||||||| email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send,
||||||| and are stuck
||||||| in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can anyone tell
||||||| me what
||||||| to
||||||| do?
|||||||
||||||| Don

 

[Max]

I think I tried to do what Milly suggested, though I'm not sure. I think
maybe my furious head scratching indicates I'm beyond help. I'm not sure
that I made the new file the default file. Could you take me through that
step by step to make sure I did that? I clicked on file>data file
management> but I don't see a place to designate any of those listed as
default file. Also, I apparently don't know how to delete the mail from the
old outbox because nothing happens when I try to do that.

I have tried this as well. I will try it again, but is there anything else?
Deedee

This is more involved but should work.

Create a new .pst file (file->new->outlook data file) and give it a
distinctive name. Make it the default location for new mail (File->Data
File Management). Close and reopen Outlook. Delete the mail from the old
outbox. Reverse your steps to reinstate your old .pst file as the default.
Close and reopen Outlook.



--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Max Mitchell asked:

| I have tried to do what has been suggested, but it doesn't work. I
| checked the task manager and there was no version of Outlook.exe
| running, yet I can't delete the message. The message is 4mb. Do you
| have any other suggestions?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| When you place Outlook in offline mode (File->Work Offline) and then
|| close, ensure it is completely closed before reopening using Task
|| Manager. If any instance of Outlook.exe is still active, kill it
|| using task manager, wait about a minute and then reopen Outlook.
|| Then delete the file from your Outbox.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, rdrepass asked:
||
||| I have the same problem with a much bigger file (91 MB). I tried
||| what you said, but it will still not delete. Any other suggestions?
||| I have OL 2003 as well.
|||
||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||
|||| You are welcome
||||
|||| --
|||| Peter
||||
|||| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
||||
||||
|||| message |||||
||||| I just did what you suggested and it worked!! Thank you for the
||||| info.
|||||
||||| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|||||
|||||| Version of OL please. Meanwhile try this.Place Outlook off-line,
|||||| restart Outlook and try to delete the messages then
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Peter
||||||
|||||| Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.
|||||| message
|||||| ||||||| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent
||||||| them to my
||||||| email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send,
||||||| and are stuck
||||||| in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can anyone tell
||||||| me what
||||||| to
||||||| do?
|||||||
||||||| Don

 

[kkall]

nothing to highlight. It is already highlighted and transmitting & pressing
delete on keyboard or on Outlook toolbar has no effect. Turning off computer
& restarting or end task all have no effect. Other mail can be sent in
spite of this endless transmission.
thanks anyway
kurt

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

In Outlook, click on File->Work Offline. Completely close and reopen Outlook. Delete the items from your outbox. Click on File->uncheck Work Offline. Close and restart Outlook.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, kkall asked:

| nothing to highlight. It is already highlighted and transmitting &
| pressing delete on keyboard or on Outlook toolbar has no effect.
| Turning off computer & restarting or end task all have no effect.
| Other mail can be sent in spite of this endless transmission.
| thanks anyway
| kurt
|
| "bxb7668" wrote:
|
|| Have you tried going into your outbox, highlighting them and pressing
|| delete?
||
|| message ||| I have 2 outgoing emails stuck in my outbox. I mistakenly sent them
|| to my
||| email address from my scanner, and no I can't get them to send, and
|| are stuck
||| in my outbox. One is 8mb, and the other is 11mb. Can anyone tell me
|| what to
||| do?
|||
||| Don

 

[Patty]

Thank you very much, it worked perfectly for me.

 

[Floyd]

Milly,
You are wonderful. I have been fighting a 100 MEG outbox item being stuck
for 3 weeks. You are my new hereo! Thanks.