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Unsent messages in "Outbox" cannot be deleted

#1 Post by Jamiet99uk » Tue Oct 22, 2024 4:34 pm

Hi,

I have a message in my "Outbox" in the messaging system which has been there since 2022, to a user who is now inactive.

I would like to delete it.

When I mark it for deletion, I get this error message:

"The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again."
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#2 Post by dargorygel » Wed Oct 23, 2024 1:18 am

Try using whiteout.

(I'll bring it up to the development team, seriously.)

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#3 Post by Jamiet99uk » Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:09 am

There isn't a "whiteout" option so I'm not sure what you mean, Darg.
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#4 Post by dargorygel » Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:33 am

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:09 am
There isn't a "whiteout" option so I'm not sure what you mean, Darg.
Step One: Purchase some "whiteout" at an office supply store. (I THINK it still exists)

Step Two: When you notice that old unopened message, use the whiteout to paint over it on your computer screen.

Step Three: It no longer is visible to annoy you!

How could this go wrong?

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#5 Post by Jamiet99uk » Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:56 pm

Oh you mean correction fluid.
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#6 Post by dargorygel » Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:31 pm

You brits are like the french... you have a different word for everything!

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#7 Post by gimix » Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:52 pm

Sorry Darg but this reminds me of that old joke.
US people kept the English word "pavement" for a while but they were often hit by cars. So they switched to "sidewalk" and finally understood they needed to walk by the side :o

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#8 Post by dargorygel » Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:07 am

gimix wrote:
Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:52 pm
Sorry Darg but this reminds me of that old joke.
US people kept the English word "pavement" for a while but they were often hit by cars. So they switched to "sidewalk" and finally understood they needed to walk by the side :o
I believe that!

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#9 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:39 am

dargorygel wrote:
Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:31 pm
You brits are like the french... you have a different word for everything!
In French they call it "Correcteur liquide".
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#10 Post by DougJoe » Fri Oct 25, 2024 7:17 pm

gimix wrote:
Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:52 pm
Sorry Darg but this reminds me of that old joke.
US people kept the English word "pavement" for a while but they were often hit by cars. So they switched to "sidewalk" and finally understood they needed to walk by the side :o
We USians do still use "pavement" to reference any paved/non-dirt surface (well, at least where I grew up). A forest path that's paved, for example, is still pavement. Although, now that I think about it, "pavement" tends to be used more to reference asphalt as opposed to concrete, but I've used it for both.

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#11 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:51 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:39 am
dargorygel wrote:
Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:31 pm
You brits are like the french... you have a different word for everything!
In French they call it "Correcteur liquide".
In Greece, we call it blanco; it is white, after all!
(officially is called correction fluid, but in every day's talk, it is just blanco)

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#12 Post by damo666 » Tue Oct 29, 2024 3:55 pm

Tippex or Snopake

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