Running Thunderbird 115.10.x on Windows 10 Pro 22H2 on an older Samsung Note 9 Pro 15 w/ an 8th gen Intel i7, 16GB RAM and an aftermarket 1TB SSD w/ over 660GB of free sp… (hamaky bebe kokoa)
Running Thunderbird 115.10.x on Windows 10 Pro 22H2 on an older Samsung Note 9 Pro 15 w/ an 8th gen Intel i7, 16GB RAM and an aftermarket 1TB SSD w/ over 660GB of free space. I have emails going back to 1997 in the Sent folder (16K sent emails). While running Thunderbird 115.9.x earlier today, I noticed I suddenly could not delete emails out of my Inbox. The following error message was displayed:
The messages could not be moved or copied to folder 'Trash on [username@domain.com]' because writing to folder failed. To gain disk space, from the File menu, first choose Empty Trash, and then choose Compact Folders, and then try again.
So I did that to no avail. I then tried to delete messages out of other folders as a test (Sent, Drafts, etc.) figuring I could simply move them back if successful. Received the same error message. Closed all applications and rebooted the laptop as it had been running for several days. Same error message.
Did some research which all told me to delete the Trash MBOX files (including the .msf file). Did that, same result. Launched in Safe Mode, same result. Created a Trash.txt file, removed the .txt file extension and relaunched Thunderbird. Same result. Compacted all folders and relaunched. Same result.
If I backup the current folders and restore from them, I'll get the same result. Anyone have a new idea or set of instructions I can follow?
Thanks!