Deleted items

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kevs

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Actually maybe these folders were created by me and then deleted. I guess
folders don't get deleted, they get saved??
 
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Paul Berkowitz

PS:
Actually maybe these folders were created by me and then deleted. I guess
folders don't get deleted, they get saved??
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They should get deleted if you ever run Empty Deleted Items folder schedule.
I set it to run On Quit. If you merely select the messages in Deleted Items
folder and click Trash button or Delete, no, the subfolders won't get
purged.

Or is this a Deleted Items folder on an IMAP server? If you have your
Advanced account settings correct, it too should purge folders when
quitting. But there may be some IMAP servers which don't cooperate.


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K

kevs

They should get deleted if you ever run Empty Deleted Items folder schedule.
I set it to run On Quit. If you merely select the messages in Deleted Items
folder and click Trash button or Delete, no, the subfolders won't get
purged.

Or is this a Deleted Items folder on an IMAP server? If you have your
Advanced account settings correct, it too should purge folders when
quitting. But there may be some IMAP servers which don't cooperate.
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Thanks Paul, no it's not IMAP thing, I was just never aware that if you
delete a folder, it then becomes a subfolder of the deleted items folder. I
thought it would just show next to the deleted messages, which I delete
manually every week or so (everything older than one week)
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Thanks Paul, no it's not IMAP thing, I was just never aware that if you
delete a folder, it then becomes a subfolder of the deleted items folder. I
thought it would just show next to the deleted messages, which I delete
manually every week or so (everything older than one week)
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Well, OK. But if you were to delete your messages by running Empty Deleted
Items Folder schedule (Tools/Run Schedule/Empty Deleted Items Folder) then,
yes, the deleted folders would also get deleted. It's only if you go into
the folder and select the messages, then click the Trash button or press
Delete key, that only the _selected_ items get purged. Since you haven't
selected any folders in there - since they aren't visible that way -
naturally they don't get deleted. Now you could go in to each subfolder and
do the same thing, but you'd still have empty subfolders remaining. The only
way to do it is run the schedule, and that will get rid of everything in one
fell swoop without any selecting.

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K

kevs

Well, OK. But if you were to delete your messages by running Empty Deleted
Items Folder schedule (Tools/Run Schedule/Empty Deleted Items Folder) then,
yes, the deleted folders would also get deleted. It's only if you go into
the folder and select the messages, then click the Trash button or press
Delete key, that only the _selected_ items get purged. Since you haven't
selected any folders in there - since they aren't visible that way -
naturally they don't get deleted. Now you could go in to each subfolder and
do the same thing, but you'd still have empty subfolders remaining. The only
way to do it is run the schedule, and that will get rid of everything in one
fell swoop without any selecting.
Click to expand...


Thanks Paul!
 
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