On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 00:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:27 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote:
> > I keep getting an error message when I try to Empty Trash or Expunge
> > Folder.
> 
> What is the error message? Without knowing that, we can only guess at
> the problem.
> 
All is says is "Error while expunging folder."

> > I also tried to reduce the size of a large folder by moving some
> > mail to a different folder and got the same kind of error message.
> 
> If you moved it to a different real folder without expunging the
> original folder, you now have two physical copies of each "moved"
> message.

No--I was moving it to a different Evolution mail folder.
> 
> > There are now about 175 emails in my Trash folder that won't go away.
> 
> Trash is a virtual folder. The original mails are in exactly the same
> place they were before, just marked for deletion. Because of the expunge
> problem, you didn't actually move anything, you copied it.
> 
Right. My point was to indicate how many there were that aren't being
expunged. I.e., some are being expunged, but each time there seem to be
a few more there that aren't being expunged--now up to 175.
> poc
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