Re: thunderbird empty trash

[Akemi Yagi <amyagi gmail com>]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:34:27 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:

> François Patte wrote:
>>>>
>>> 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...
> 
> 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.

Maybe you are not deleting in the right directory.  Try 

Edit->Account Settings->Server Settings

And look for "Local directory:"

That's where your mail files are stored.

Akemi

> --
> Due to the move to M$ Exchange Server,
>     anything that is a priority, please phone.

Geez, this is terrible.