I'm having trouble with my delete function in Win XP OE/Outlook Express.
Where do I find means of setting the delete function in OC/Outlook Express?

This is deleting email only.

"rb" wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm having trouble with my delete function in Win XP OE/Outlook
> Express. Where do I find means of setting the delete function in
> OC/Outlook Express?
>
> This is deleting email only.


And just what is the "delete function" to you in terms that we can
understand what you mean to say? Are you asking how to enable the
configuration option within OE to delete items in the Deleted Items
folder when you exit Outlook Express? Are you asking how to use the
Del key to delete the selected item? Or what?

And what is "OC/Outlook Express"?
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=oc has many
definitions for the "OC" acronym but none looked appropriated. So
what does "OC" mean to you but in terms that the rest of us know of?

First off, let me apologize. My fingers were meant to say IC instead of
OC. My fault.---- Internet Explorer. Operator error here.

What happens is that I'm forced to use Control/Delete to get rid of
messages. This is with just a hundred or so on the Delete File. When I
hit my normal DELETE at the top of OE, it doesn't do anything. This
started up about two week ago. The message are gone. Not moved to Delete
File.

There---they did it again! It was IE.

"rb" wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> First off, let me apologize. My fingers were meant to say IC
> instead of OC. My fault.---- Internet Explorer. Operator error
> here.
>
> What happens is that I'm forced to use Control/Delete to get rid of
> messages. This is with just a hundred or so on the Delete File.
> When I hit my normal DELETE at the top of OE, it doesn't do
> anything. This started up about two week ago. The message are
> gone. Not moved to Delete File.
>


There is no "normal DELETE at the top of OE". Either you customized
the toolbar to add the "X" delete button or you are running some
program that overlays the functionality of OE (to add to it).

Delete file? You are deleting files? Or are you deleting messages in
the Deleted Items folder within OE?

There is a row across the top of OE file. One of the things is marked
DELETE. That's what I normally used to push to get rid of incoming emails
I didn't want. Those normally went to the Delete file. Later, you could
then get rid of a bunch of emails.

I wouldn't have any idea about customizing or whatever.

Now, I'm having to hit Control/Delete on keyboard to get rid of msgs. When
I do it this way, they're going straight on past the Delete file.

What you can try, is to customize the OE tool bar. Do this by right clicking
on a blank area at the right of the bar. Then select customize. Remove the
delete icon and then back out. Then go back to customizing and re-show the
delete icon.
This action may reset the delete icons target.
"rb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> There is a row across the top of OE file. One of the things is marked
> DELETE. That's what I normally used to push to get rid of incoming
> emails I didn't want. Those normally went to the Delete file. Later, you
> could then get rid of a bunch of emails.
>
> I wouldn't have any idea about customizing or whatever.
>
> Now, I'm having to hit Control/Delete on keyboard to get rid of msgs.
> When I do it this way, they're going straight on past the Delete file.
>

"rb" wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> There is a row across the top of OE file. One of the things is
> marked DELETE. That's what I normally used to push to get rid of
> incoming emails I didn't want. Those normally went to the Delete
> file. Later, you could then get rid of a bunch of emails.
>
> I wouldn't have any idea about customizing or whatever.
>
> Now, I'm having to hit Control/Delete on keyboard to get rid of
> msgs. When I do it this way, they're going straight on past the
> Delete file.


Using the "X" Delete button or hitting the Del key for the selected
items will *move* them into the Deleted Items folder. You really
aren't deleting anything but instead just moving them into another
folder - unless you delete items from the Deleted Items folder itself
which is a permanent delete.

Deleting items in the Deleted Items folder or using Shift+Del on
selected items in other folders results in a permanent delete. You
get prompted when attempting to do a permanent delete (because you
won't get it back and why it is called *permanent*). Permanent
deletes do not get the item(s) moved into the Deleted Items folder.
Instead they become hidden, are marked with a status of "deleted" in
the dbx database file, and will get physically purged when you compact
the database files. I've never used Ctrl+Del to delete items. I've
used either the Del or Shift+Del key combos. Ctrl+Del doesn't perform
any action in my copy of OE6 (but Ctrl+D does a delete which is *not*
the same as Ctrl+Del).

Do a search in OE's help on "shortcut keys". The article will show
you what key combos are recognized by OE. Peculiarly the Shift+Del
combo is not listed for permanent deletions.

Maybe your .dbx files are corrupted. If "X" (delete button) or Del
isn't working in a folder, move whatever you want to save from that
folder into another folder and then delete the .dbx file for that
problematic folder. Each folder in OE has a corresponding .dbx file.