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Thunderbird locks up in minutes and I found that there are over 800000 Sent messages some duplicated 1000+ times. I believe this has something to do with probl

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After a few minutes/seconds- after a few commands, Thunderbird locks up. After checking folders, trasn and Sent were very large- 800,000 in sent folder and many are duplicated 1000 times. I can't delete before it locks up. Expect it is locking up Tbird from functioning. safe mode does not help.

After a few minutes/seconds- after a few commands, Thunderbird locks up. After checking folders, trasn and Sent were very large- 800,000 in sent folder and many are duplicated 1000 times. I can't delete before it locks up. Expect it is locking up Tbird from functioning. safe mode does not help.

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have you tried compacting your folders?

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Yes and compacting did not stop the lock up. We tried to delete the sent file emails but they seem to keep dulicating again.

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I tried compacting again and let it run until it gave me a message: "The folder 'Sent' cannot be compacted because another operation is in progress. Please try again later."

There is something poisoning this process and causing this to lockup. I have swept for viruses but nothing shows.

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What mail provider? What version of Thunderbird?

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Version: 31.3.0 Email: IMAP through gmail