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Erasing emails and contacts from local drive (IMAP account) - they won't delete!

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  • i mujjee tontu mooy JustThink

I've tried to purge Thunderbird of many emails from certain people. I've compacted, I've gone into Gmail and deleted there. I've emptied trash.

But whenever I type a certain persons name in the main search box, I get hundreds of hits and all the emails are there! When I click on them I get an completely empty blank area, no email, no nothing.

How do I get rid of them?

Thanks

I've tried to purge Thunderbird of many emails from certain people. I've compacted, I've gone into Gmail and deleted there. I've emptied trash. But whenever I type a certain persons name in the main search box, I get hundreds of hits and all the emails are there! When I click on them I get an completely empty blank area, no email, no nothing. How do I get rid of them? Thanks

Saafara biñ tànn

Is this happening with Global Search (Ctrl+K). Try rebuilding the database and then see if you still find results for those persons.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database

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Saafara yiñ Tànn

Is this happening with Global Search (Ctrl+K). Try rebuilding the database and then see if you still find results for those persons.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database

@sfhowes. Thank you, that did the job.