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The item could not be deleted. It was either moved or already deleted...

We ran into a problem Friday with our Microsoft Exchange 2003 server where I had to use the use eseutil program to repair the priv1.edb database. Since then, and so far it's only my mailbox, I have been receiving the following error when deleting/moving E-Mail:

"The item could not be deleted. It was either moved or already deleted, or access was denied."

I'm the only workstation accessing this mailbox, and I haven't done any permission changes. The problem is affecting both Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web Access. Perhaps the server is somehow locking my mailbox in the Information Store from the time of the crash?

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Answers

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 08:20:20ID: 14413115

It seems upon further testing that it's any mailbox (mine, or shared mailboxes) I set my Microsoft Outlook to access.

With the exception of my mailbox (which gives me this error both in Outlook and Outlook Web Access) I can't delete any mail from any mailbox that I add to Outlook, but can log into Outlook Web Access and do it. This one has me totally stumped here.

 

by: SembeePosted on 2005-07-11 at 08:29:29ID: 14413207

Have you recreated the Outlook profile?
If you are using Outlook 2003 in cached mode then that is almost certainly the cause.

Simon.
Exchange MVP.

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 08:34:48ID: 14413265

I have, no luck.

I didn't think that would be it though, since it's also affecting Outlook Web Access.

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 08:45:45ID: 14413375

Another weird thing to note...

I opened an old backup .pst folder in Outlook and moved several E-Mails from it to the mailbox on the server. They moved successfully, but once moved I couldn't delete them. I was able to move them back, for whatever it is worth...

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 08:47:56ID: 14413397

Sorry for the back-to-back posting, but I discovered something else.

I'm able to move E-Mails out of the Exchange mailbox, to an offline .pst for example. It just seems that I can't delete or move within the Exchange mailbox.

 

by: eholland99Posted on 2005-07-11 at 08:58:38ID: 14413492

Even though you didn't change the mailbox rights...it's possible that the rights may have gotten corrupted on this mailbox when you ran eseutil.  In Active Directory Users and Computers go to the properties of your user account.  On the Exchange Advanced tab you can check the mailbox rights.  Just verify that everything looks good there.  That would be the first step.

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 09:00:31ID: 14413517

Already done, but thank you for trying.

It's definitely something wrong the with my Active Directory profile or Exchange mailbox. I set up a new Outlook profile with a shared mailbox (not my primary mailbox) and can freely delete things. I guess the next step would be to just kill the mailbox and restore from a .pst that I luckily had made that very morning.

 

by: eholland99Posted on 2005-07-11 at 09:01:56ID: 14413531

That was going to be my next suggestion.  Since you have the .pst that might be easiest.  You could also create a new mailbox and use Exmerge.exe to move the data from the old one to the new one.

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 09:04:22ID: 14413564

To complicate matters I was able to set up an Outlook profile with access to a shared mailbox, and open my mailbox by going under "File/Open/Another User's Mailbox", and was freely able to delete things then. This is so very strange...

 

by: eholland99Posted on 2005-07-11 at 09:07:35ID: 14413598

Wow, yeah that's very strange.  I would definitely recreate the mailbox.  Either of the methods for getting your old data into the new mailbox would be fine.  Good luck...sometimes things just get FUBAR.  :)

 

by: villagelighthouse_llcPosted on 2005-07-11 at 09:36:05ID: 14413867

Well, deleting the mailbox and restoring from the .pst worked perfectly.

Strange.

Here's your points; thanks for helping.

 

by: eholland99Posted on 2005-07-11 at 09:43:02ID: 14413928

No problem...definitely a weird thing.  Thanks.

 

by: Exchange_AdminPosted on 2005-07-11 at 09:49:27ID: 14413974

I know that this is late since you seem to resolve the issue, but here is my 2 cents worth.

When ESEUTIL /P is run against a database, it must always be followed by an ISINTEG -FIX.
The reason is that ESEUTIL works on the page level of the database. The database is written in 4 KB pages. If there is a corrupted page it will try to fix it. If it cannot be fixed, it will be deleted.
ISINTEG works on the integrity and links between the tables in the database.

I have seen your issue many times in the past when ISINTEG was not run after ESEUTIL /P. ESEUTIL deleted a page or pages in the database yet the tables in the database still referenced this deleted page, hence the error you were getting.

Hope this helps in the future.

 

by: KiethCPosted on 2008-04-29 at 05:20:58ID: 21461451

I'm having the same problem.
Can I run ISINTEG on its own (at any time)
Or is it reccomended that ESEUTIL is run them ISINTEG?

 

by: SembeePosted on 2008-04-29 at 09:26:46ID: 21463745

KiethC - this is an old question. Unlike a forum it is not possible to "bump" questions back up the list. The only people who will see your post are those that have already participated. Instead you should post your question as a new question in the Exchange Server Zone which will allow other experts the chance to see the question and respond.

Simon
Exchange Server Zone Advisor.

 

by: bdhtechnologyPosted on 2011-07-19 at 07:05:34ID: 36214796

I know this is very old, but I was able to fix this error using Exchange_Admin's comment regarding isinteg.  

I dismounted the Exchange databases  and ran this command:
isinteg -s <SERVERNAME> -fix -test alltests

Also this was an Exchange 2007 machine.

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