- Step 1: Launch the Outlook 2007 application on the computer.
- Step 2: Go to the Edit menu. Click on Purge following that choose Purge Options.
- Step 3: The Internet Email Settings window opens, check the option below to purge the items when switching folders. This allows the emails to get automatically purged.
- Step 4: Try to delete the emails again.
- Step 5: Another way is to manually purge by selecting the emails which you have to delete then select the Edit menu.
- Step 6: Select Purge and go on to click on the required purge choices from the list to resolve unable to delete the email from outlook 2007.
- Step 7: If the deleted emails are still found in the folder, move those emails to the Trash folder manually rather than deleting.
- Step 8: Restart the Windows device and check if the emails can be deleted now.
- Step 9: There is a method to delete the emails, which is to ‘hard delete’ the emails. Press the Shift key and the Delete button together to hard delete.
- Step 10: Run the Outlook program in the safe mode and delete the emails from that. To do so, open the Run window and type the command “outlook.exe /safe” then press the Enter key. Next, select the default Outlook option and then OK.
- Step 11: To fix this unable to delete the email from outlook 2007 issue, try to repair the Outlook 2007 application using the Outlook Detect & Repair tool or called Diagnostic tool.
