Thunderbird Activity Manager repeatedly reports Emptied gmail Trash folder over and over every few seconds. Solved by Compact/Repair of trash folder
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Thunderbird Activity Manager repeatedly reports Emptied Trash over and over every few seconds. The account it is reporting that it Emptied the Trash has no trash. I've repaired the Trash folder, repaired the Inbox folder, compacted the account, to no avail. I've let Thunderbird run for about 10 hours to see if this was a natural process, but the Emptied Trash messages continues. The mail folder I'm using for this account is around 7GB. Thanks! Mike
Modified by Wayne Mery
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Ignore my suggestion about unsubscribing to resolve the trash issue - you already solved it.
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> The mail folder I'm using for this account is around 7GB.
That sounds wrong, we don't support folders that large. Perhaps you mean the account is 7GB?
And, what is your largest folder, its size, and number of messages in the folder?
Presumably an imap account?
Thanks for responding Wayne! Yes, it's an IMAP account.
After asking TB to do a Compact/Repair in response to this issue, TB seems to be downloading everything again from All Mail. So, I may not be able to give you an exact answer right now.
However, TB states there are 121,000 items in All Mail, and the All Mail file is exactly 4GB. There are 60,000 items left to fully download, so I estimate that the All Mail file will be 6GB or 7GB by the time it's done.
The second largest file is called Important, with 74,000 items and is 5.1GB.
RE: All Mail Gmails 'All Mail' folder is really a copy of absolutely everything you have. They use it as an Archive folder. If you subscribe and synchronise that folder, it will literally double the size of the account.
I would advise that you do not subscribe to see the 'All Mail' folder . See info at this link under 'All Mail' heading.
> If you subscribe and synchronise that folder, it will literally double the size of the account.
No, this is incorrect since version 17 because of fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721316
There is however a minor performance impact of being subscribed to All Mail. It may be worth unsubscribing All Mail to see if it helps your trash issue, but I seriously doubt it will.
Chosen Solution
Ignore my suggestion about unsubscribing to resolve the trash issue - you already solved it.
I discovered that there are two trash folders for some of my Gmail email accounts: a Trash folder with a Recycle Bin icon, and a Trash folder with a manila orange folder icon.
Here were the steps I took and the solution:
1. Tried compacting / repairing Inbox and and Gmail > Trash (with the Recycle Bin icon) folder. Result: still got Emptied Trash message over and over. 2. Tried deleting lots of messages to get the largest folders much smaller. Result: still got Emptied Trash message over and over. 3. Repaired the Trash folder (with the manila orange folder icon). Result: This solved the problem. 4. Then, the next gmail email account I own started repeating the Emptied Trash message over and over for that account! I repaired its Trash folder (with the manila orange folder icon) and it fixed that account too. Repeat step 4 for each remaining email account and problem fully solved.