thunderbird empty trash
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu May 24 19:32:33 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:51:24 +0200, François Patte wrote:
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>> Bonjour,
>>
>> It is impossible to empty my trash in tb: I have recently cleaned my
>> mailbox, putting into the trash somme directories, and now it is
>> impossible to suppress these directories from the trash! I click on "empty
>> this trash now" and the trash seems to have been emptied, but the next
>> time I call tb, the directories are still there!!!!
>>
>> how can I proceed to get rid of these?
>>
>> My mail box is configured with imap. There is nothing in the trash on the
>> server, but something has been written localy in the .thunderbird
>> directory which is not suppressed when I empty the trash...
>
> Not sure if this helps at all but won't hurt. Right click Inbox and
> select Compact This Folder. This will delete all the "deleted" files from
> your Inbox.
>
> Akemi
>
Another method if this doesn't work.
Close TB and delete the Trash and Trash.msf files in the
~/.thunderbird/{default}/Mail/{mailhost}/ directory.
I have done that in the past when I had a similar problem.
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Robin Laing
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