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Help! Can't delete beamed message

2 replies · 2,558 views · Started 07 December 2003

The Hun 07 Dec 2003, 21:52

Hello guys, I'm new here and I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I beamed a PRC file (Mobipocket reader file) to my P800, and now I don't seem to be able to delete the message form the "Beamed" folder in Messaging. I can tag it, hit "delete", it looks like it does, but the message does not disappear. 😞 Any other message does, just this PRC does not.

If any of you can help, i would be grateful. Just tell me where sould I delete the files from File Explorer, or something. I hate to have undelele-able messages around.

Thanks in advance!

The Hun 09 Dec 2003, 00:54

Well, since it seems that noone else on this planet has the same problem as me (it happens sometimes...), I had to take matters into my own hands. 😊

The cause (and the solution too) is pretty simple. It seems that this happened because I actually OPENED the files with MobiPocketReader with the "View" option of the "beam received" dialog. And thus MobiPocket reader left its .mbr (or whatever) files in the c:\system\mail\* directories. So the messenger application couldn't delete the directory.

The solution was to hunt for the files that MobiPocketReader left behind, delete them, and then the messages was deleteable.

I hope this will sometime help somebody.