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Unable to Delete Email Messages in Thunderbird

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In Thunderbird 24.0.0 I am unable to delete emails using any of the following methods:

Delete key

Right click, Delete Message

Right click, Move To -> Trash

Manually dragging a message to the trash

Everything else seems to work fine.

I don't see any kind of error message, it just does nothing.

This is a clean install, I did not move or import any data.

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answered 2 Years ago giccolla · Accepted Answer

I finally resolved the issue.

I started Thunderbird from the command line and noticed it was complaining about not being able to open the local message store every time I tried to delete a message.

To fix the problem I just deleted the following files:

~/.thunderbird/[profile_folder]/Mail/Local Folders/Trash 

~/.thunderbird/[profile_folder]/Mail/Local Folders/Trash.msf

When Thunderbird restarted it recreated them and delete now works.