Retention Category Hold will not allow deletes from new retention category

[skw234dmsp]

Getting the following error when trying to change the original retention category -
=EV8.01

0> EV~W Event ID: 3378 The following item has been moved in the mailbox but it could not be updated in the archive. |
_Mailbox: /o=dmsp-mail/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=operations |Folder: \Inbox\** Out Of Office\Expired
_Title: Out of Office AutoReply: Failed drives on D01svr09 |Archive folder updated: TRUE
_Retention Category updated: FALSE
_Reason: Item's Retention Category cannot be updated. The original Retention Category is on hold but new Retention Category is not.

[Paul_Grimshaw]

Yep this is correct you cannot change items that are on Legal Hold.

[skw234dmsp]

I removed the legal hold but now I cannot delete anything when running a script to apply a custom retention category. 
If you remove the legal hold shouldn't it work?

[Paul_Grimshaw]

If an item has not got a legal hold and it is eligible for expiry then it should be deleted yes. Bit confused when you say you cannot delete anything when running a script to apply a customer ret cat. Can you expand on what you mean by this and what you are trying to achieve. Also what version of EV are you running?