thunderbird empty trash

[Akemi Yagi]

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