No matter what I do, Trash will not empty. I started with 200 messages in Trash. When I tried to delete all of them, suddenly there were 1658. I tried deleting individually, I rebuilt both Trash and the Inbox. Nothing works.
MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences... ▹ Accounts
Select one of your IMAP accounts in the list on the left, then open the Mailbox Behaviors tab, Uncheck the box marked
Store deleted messages on the server
Do the same in your other IMAP accounts. Save the changes when prompted.
Did not work. I tried 4 times, each time I had more and more in Trash.
Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox. Try again to delete the messages.
I've already done that. Didn't help.
What else have you done that you didn't mention?
Sorry, I had googled problems emptying Trash in Yosemite and someone had suggested that. I also rebuilt the Inbox - no change. I have gmail by the way, I should probably mention that. I haven't tried anything else besides trying to delete one by one, deleting with Command Delete as well as regular Delete, closing and opening up Mail again and rebooting my computer. Everything is ok in Gmail on the web - it's just Apple Mail that is driving me crazy.
See the comment by Stephen Adams in this thread, and by William Lloyd in this thread.
Oh My God, you are my new favorite person. The Stephen Adams answer worked. I kept going back and checking to be sure. I'm not even going to do the second person's suggestion. If you are ever in the SF Bay Area, let me know, I owe you a drink!
Can I ask you other questions here or should I choose a different thread? I'm trying to export a Group in Contacts to Excel.
You are the best!
Thanks for the update. I suggest you search the site for answered questions similar to yours, and if you don't find a solution that way, start a new thread with a full description of the problem and whatever you've done to try to solve it.
OK, will do. Mille grazie and an apple martini.
Mail trash not emptying in Yosemite
