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Thunderbird went goofy

Thunderbird Crashing and slow performance
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In the last month or 2, when I delete an email it does not show in the trash folder. I can wait from 5 minutes to even the next time I reboot my puter to finally see it it trash. Sometimes it sends it to the all mail or important folder instead of trash. And if I delete from there, it still takes tons of time to end up in the trash folder...if it even gets there. This seems to be getting worse by the day. I have clicked repair folder, no change, I have cleared Thunderbird's cache, no change. It's also now taking way too much time to load an email that contains a picture. This happens with at least 3 of these gmails. I'm at a loss here and extremely frustrated and about to change these gmails from imap to pop. win10 and TB is up to date. But it doesn't compact folders as much as it used to either. Any help appreciated

In the last month or 2, when I delete an email it does not show in the trash folder. I can wait from 5 minutes to even the next time I reboot my puter to finally see it it trash. Sometimes it sends it to the all mail or important folder instead of trash. And if I delete from there, it still takes tons of time to end up in the trash folder...if it even gets there. This seems to be getting worse by the day. I have clicked repair folder, no change, I have cleared Thunderbird's cache, no change. It's also now taking way too much time to load an email that contains a picture. This happens with at least 3 of these gmails. I'm at a loss here and extremely frustrated and about to change these gmails from imap to pop. win10 and TB is up to date. But it doesn't compact folders as much as it used to either. Any help appreciated

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Wayne Mery
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So this started prior to version 153? Does this only happen with gmail?

Nightowl
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I'm not sure if this started before the last update or not. It only happens with 3 of the 5 or 6 imap gmails. The other ones that are pop have no issues. I just found that if I double click the progress bar on the bottom right, A pop up has the history of current actions taken by TB. One of the bad gmails (if any action was taken on that one at that time) it says authentication error? But it brings in the email? When TB is moving deleted emails to trash, that progress bar just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling, so it's trying to do its thing but not completing it. I also noticed it says that particular email was sent to trash, but it didn't. I have been watching that progress bar action and it looks like it alternates between different email addresses with the authentication error? If there is an issue with gmail, that error should be constant. Also, when I have a new email and click on the header to read, there is no preview for a minute, then it pops up. Something is really wrong.

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