Hi Coral, have you tried running Scandisk? Sometimes a file can't be deleted cos it's been corrupted, and the scandisk sorts it out for you. Good luck, Karen. "coralreef" <blubble@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:1OB_j.11471$SA7.6610@newsfe09.ams2... Thanks for the replies. I tried them but I still couldn't delete the emails. I have just done a scan with Bulldog which found