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Over the last two years, I have been using Outlook 2013, now Office 365. I've been experiencing an ongoing issue where I receive this message "Operation cannot be performed because message has been changed" message. Typical scenarios: 1) A new email arrives in my Outlook inbox. I preview, or read the email. I attempt to delete the email. Operation cannot... message appears. I either type a new email, or reply to an email, go on to another task leaving the draft until later. When I return to the draft email, complete the email, and attempt to send the email, Operation cannot... message appears. I also cannot even save the draft, same error message. This is the worst part of this bug, as I've wasted/lost the time effort spent on the draft email.
I have run the Office repair utilities. I have tried unchecking the email cleanup boxes, and a variety of fixes recommended on these Microsoft answers communities. I've noticed sometimes when I come back to a message, it does allow me to move/delete the message. It's like there's a sync issue that needs time to resolve. However, nothing appears to work when a draft message gets hung in this loop. I have to start over with a new reply email.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I am sorry RVADad
I did not post this solution. Try contacting George XU
That is not me.
George --
I'm having the same problem (W10 Pro, Office 365) so I followed your advice to type INBOX into the Root folder path. But now when I try opening Outlook, I get the following error message:
I need to access emails in my drafts folder!! Please tell me how to restore my Outlook!!
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Worked perfect for a series of appointments as well on calander. Thanks
I get the message when I'm trying to move messages to a folder, so my INBOX is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I can't move half of the messages out of the INBOX because "SOMETHING HAS CHANGED" and forget about trying to send a message from Drafts. The problem is getting worse over the past week. It's now happening on a frequent, regular basis. I've never had this much trouble with Outlook. ****!!
What other recourse do we have than talking to ourselves on this useless Community of irate Microsoft users?? Don't they realize our livelihoods depend on their stuff working? We don't do this stuff for fun. All of us are WAITING for a solution. Where do the people from Microsoft who would know how to fix this problem hide? There are obviously people from Microsoft who know how to make the problem worse, available to answer our questions. How can we make them listen to us, instead of just notifying us when our subscription has been renewed?
Notice they don't ask you before charging you if you have any problems you would like fixed!! That would be a novel idea, but would probably put them out of business.
Susan
Outlook user since it was created and launched (1980's?, 1970's?, 1960's?)