Trashed mail

Lately on my Mac Mail, when I delete a message it goes into the Trash folder, but whenever I go to delete one or many at once permanently, I have to do it twice. I highlight the messages and hit Delete and they immediately come back and I have to repeat the procedure again.

Any thoughts?

Running OS High Sierra 10.13.6

iMac, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 18, 2023 5:15 AM

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BDAqua

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Mar 18, 2023 7:43 AM in response to krcolson

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

If you have no POP accounts & they’re all IMAP accounts then in Mail’s Mailbox menu choose Rebuild.

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