In article <[email protected]>, MCBastos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interviewed by CNN on 9/2/2010 05:41, Geoff Walker told the world: > > I'm running SM 2.0.2 and just in the last few days I have been unable to > > delete messages from the trash in the normal manner. > > > > Closing and re-opening SM then allows me to delete messages from the > > inbox to the trash, up to the next occasion that I empty the trash, at > > which point the trash icon itself is deleted and the deletion of > > messages from the inbox can no longer be made (presumably because there > > is no trash to dispatch them to). > > > > This behaviour persists even after re-booting the computer and even > > after re-installing SM. > > > > Further investigation reveals that the alternative method of emptying > > the trash by highlighting all messages in the trash and then clicking > > the Inbox's delete icon appears to work fine - it is only File -> Empty > > Trash that leads to the deletion of the trash icon. > > > > Also it is only when there are messages in the trash that the icon > > disappears. File -> Empty Trash has no impact if the trash is empty. > > > > Any diagnosis and/or suggestions, please? > > Try the following: > 1. Close Seamonkey. All windows of it. > 2. Go to your profile folder, then look for files with the extension > "msf" inside the mail subfolders. > 3. Delete the trash.msf file. There might be more than one, if you have > more than one "Trash" folder. Delete all of them. > 4. Delete the extension-less "Trash" files too. > 5. Open Seamonkey again: the trash files will be rebuilt, and hopefully > will work normally from now on. Many thanks, MCBastos - that has fixed the problem. For clarity, I didn't touch the trash files in Local Folders, only those in the main mail sub-folder. And I didn't touch the trash.snm file - only those that you specifically mentioned. This newsgroup is a wonderful resource! Geoff _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
