thunderbird empty trash

[Robin Laing]

François Patte wrote:
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> Robin Laing a écrit :
>> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 May 2007 16:51:24 +0200, François Patte wrote:
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>>>> Bonjour,
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>>>> 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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> Nothing is working! At new start TB displays always the same trash with
> the same contents...
> 
> Something is written somewhere and we do not know where...

After you empty the trash, what are the file sizes of the Trash files?

  > ls -l ~/.thunderbird/{default}/Mail/{mailhost}/Trash*

I empty my Trash files and I get
-rw------- 1 xxxxxx xxxxx    0 May 25 09:29 Trash
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxxxx xxxxx 1670 May 25 09:29 Trash.msf

Check the file permissions as well.


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