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Guest Andy Mac
Posted

I have been struggling to delete my sms messages from sent and deleted folders.

I get no error messages but the messages do not delete... :evil:

Any thoughts :?:

Guest Disco Stu
Posted

Which phone ?

Which ROM ?

Daft question maybe, but how exactly are you trying to delete them ?

Guest Andy Mac
Posted

E100, latest Orange ROM 1.6x

Selected Show Folders, hightlight folder, selected menu, delete SMS, confirmed, nothing happened... :)(

Cheers,

Guest moo_ski_doo
Posted

Couple of things - have you tried deleting the messages individually? Are they definately SMS's and not e-mails? (I believe the delete SMS option only deletes SMS's and doesn't completely empty the folder as you might expect.)

Guest awarner [MVP]
Posted

quick way of deleting sent emails and SMS is to delete the contents of

the IPSMMAPI folder or those with 2003 StorageMAPI :)

Guest Andy Mac
Posted

Moo : That works, no problem, my issue is I have LOADS of SMS in the Sent/ INBOX, it would take me forever to go through them...

awarner : I successfully deleted those files, what were they? Do I neeed them back? I hope not... however ALL the SMS's are still there...

Any other thoughts?

Guest awarner [MVP]
Posted

The files in the MAPI folder are your SENT emails and SMS

so you should not have any more in your sent folder.

To nuke your entire inbox you could delete the CEmail.vol

Posted

the remaining sms's : are they sent sms's or deleted sms's or both still?

Will

Guest Andy Mac
Posted

awarner: CEmail.vol is a system file... how can I delete this?

Will: They are sent and deleted, an inbox sms's.

Cheers,

Guest awarner [MVP]
Posted

Rename the cemail.vol file cemail.old using something like Smart Explorer

and power phone off and on this will now create a new cemail.vol folder

and the old one can be deleted :)

Guest Andy Mac
Posted

kjk : You genius man, Thanks that worked a treat ! :)

awarner : Thanks for your input too man, all this was getting a bit frustrating for me, much appreciation!...

Posted
kjk : You genius man, Thanks that worked a treat ! :D

awarner : Thanks for your input too man, all this was getting a bit frustrating for me, much appreciation!...

that's nice i'm glad it's work for you :wink: :)

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