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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Groupware & Mail Products > Microsoft: Exchange 2000 Forum

How to dump items in Mailroot Queue FolderHelpful Member! 

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lb63640 (MIS)
30 Nov 07 10:49
There are about 5 old messages in our Mailroot Queue folder.  How can I dump or flush those?  If I try to DELETE, I get a message like "sharing violation, source or destination file in use."  
Marcs41 (IS/IT--Management)
1 Dec 07 8:10
You do that in System Manager.
Expand the server, go to the queues and enumerate the queue in question and delete the messages (with or without NDR).

Marc
If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all.
Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC!
lb63640 (MIS)
3 Dec 07 11:16
Marcs41, the Twilight Zone aspect of this is that in System Manager, the queues are empty, nothing to enumerate.  It's only when you drill down to the Mailroot Queue folder that you find those five messages.  They're not large, so it's not like they're hogging disk space. I like to keep things tidy and it bugs me that they are just lingering like party guests who don't know it's time to go home and everyone else left five hours ago.
Marcs41 (IS/IT--Management)
3 Dec 07 14:51
Well, if they really bother you, you will need to stop the Exchange Services first.
But move them, don't just blindly delete them, you never know.

Marc
If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all.
Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC!
xmsre (ISP)
5 Dec 07 22:16
The categorization metadata on .eml messages in the queue folder is stored in alternate data streams.  When you copy or move them, make sure the destination is an ntfs partition or you'll lose the streams.  If you want to view the data, you can use note[pad to view the alternate stream as in:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124461.aspx
Helpful Member!  Zelandakh (MIS)
6 Dec 07 10:17
You can use Outlook Express to view the messages or stop IIS Admin and delete the items then start it again.
lb63640 (MIS)
12 Dec 07 11:31
Thanks, Zelandakh!  Stopping the IIS Admin was the trick I was looking for.  A star to you :)
Zelandakh (MIS)
3 Jan 08 8:50
Thank you kindly.
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