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No disk space on Thunderbird

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I get the following error when trying to delete emails:

Messages cannot be moved or copied because writing to the folder failed; to gain disk space, go to file, empty trash, then compact folders.

I have tried this and all trash folders are empty, yet the message remains, I cannot delete, move or receive emails. There are 970 emails in my inbox... I even rebooted several times after doing the above and it still does not work.

What ever instructional help is provided, please include how I can save some of those emails if possible as I don't want to loose them... Right now I have had to go to spectrum to be able to read any incoming emails. Thunderbird is bricked....

Please help...

Thank you

I get the following error when trying to delete emails: ''Messages cannot be moved or copied because writing to the folder failed; to gain disk space, go to file, empty trash, then compact folders.'' I have tried this and all trash folders are empty, yet the message remains, I cannot delete, move or receive emails. There are 970 emails in my inbox... I even rebooted several times after doing the above and it still does not work. What ever instructional help is provided, please include how I can save some of those emails if possible as I don't want to loose them... Right now I have had to go to spectrum to be able to read any incoming emails. Thunderbird is bricked.... Please help... Thank you

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The information about disk space is false. We have fix coming 2-5 weeks from now.

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