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Search finds emails in deleted folders

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David Popejoy
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Some of my searches show emails that were in folders I deleted a long time ago. When I click 'Show results as list', it's empty (which is what I expect). How do I keep Thunderbird from showing the emails in deleted folders in the results I get?

Some of my searches show emails that were in folders I deleted a long time ago. When I click 'Show results as list', it's empty (which is what I expect). How do I keep Thunderbird from showing the emails in deleted folders in the results I get?

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christ1
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Assuming you're talking about Global Search, you'd need to rebuild the global databse. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/rebuilding-global-database