Unable to Programmatically Delete Items Involved in a Conflict

Question

In Outlook 2007, when I execute the subroutine located on the online help page entitled "How to: Delete All Items and Subfolders in the Deleted Items Folder", the following error is returned:

Run-time error '-2147352567 (800200009)':

One or more items in the folder you synchronized do not match.  To resolve the conflicts, open the items, and then try this operation again.

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The error occurs when the oItems.Item(i).Delete statement is executed.  Here is the code:

Sub RemoveAllItemsAndFoldersInDeletedItems()
    Dim oDeletedItems As Outlook.Folder
    Dim oFolders As Outlook.Folders
    Dim oItems As Outlook.Items
    Dim i As Long
    'Obtain a reference to deleted items folder
    Set oDeletedItems = Application.Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderDeletedItems)
    Set oItems = oDeletedItems.Items
    For i = oItems.Count To 1 Step -1
        oItems.Item(i).Delete
    Next
    Set oFolders = oDeletedItems.Folders
    For i = oFolders.Count To 1 Step -1
        oFolders.Item(i).Delete
    Next
End Sub

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Apparently, the item that is being deleted has a conflict (i.e., oItems.Item(i).IsConflict = "True").  But, I haven't been able to figure out how to resolve the conflict programmatically.  Executing the Conflicts property returns an error (e.g., Debug.Print oItems.Item(i).Conflicts.Count).

Outlook 2007 is using a mailbox from Microsoft Exchange Server 8.1.393.1.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello Curious,

For this question, here is a thread you could refer to: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/d1bc4ec6-58e6-4fb1-ba0d-5fb364954a2e. As far as I see, you also could try to use SyncObject to sync the message with Exchange Server: Application.Session.SyncObjects.Item(1).Start.

If this post does not help you, please feel free to follow up.

Best regards,
Bessie

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Answer 2

Hello All

the item.isconflict thing just helped me immensely. thanks for the posts.