OL2000: How to Delete Items in a Collection (222480)

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The following automation code example exhibits this behavior. Before running this code, create a subfolder of your Inbox called Test and copy (not move) some items into the folder so that they can be deleted.

Sub DeleteItems()
   Set ol = New Outlook.Application
   Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")
   Set TestFolder = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("Test")
   Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items
   For Each Itm In TestItems
      Itm.Delete
   Next
End Sub
				

To delete all items in a collection, delete the items from the collection in reverse order using the following approach:

Sub DeleteItems()
   Set ol = New Outlook.Application
   Set olns = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")
   Set TestFolder = olns.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("test")
   Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items
   NumItems = TestItems.Count
   For I = NumItems To 1 Step -1
      TestItems(I).Delete
   Next
End Sub
				

If you need to delete a single item from a collection and want to make sure the collection is properly indexed, you may need to retrieve the collection of items again. In the example above, the following line of code retrieves the items from the folder again:

Set TestItems = TestFolder.Items