thunderbird empty trash

[François Patte]

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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,
>>>
>>> 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.
> 

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...

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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