Empty trash - Mozilla 1.6 (OT)

[Harvey Ussery]

Update to my previous post:  Can't understand the reason for the 
behavior I described; but a reboot has knocked a little sense into Moz, 
and delete function is now normal. Sorry for the distraction.    --Harvey

Harvey Ussery wrote:

> Has anyone installed Mozilla 1.6 on a MacOSX system? I just did so on 
> my wife's iBook. I probably should have installed 1.4, the most recent 
> stable install; but installed 1.6 before realizing it wasn't the most 
> recent stable ver. Anyway, installation went clean as a whistle. No 
> prob's--until I tried to empty the trash within Mail & Newsgroups. No 
> way can I get Trash to empty: Select Trash folder>File>Empty 
> Trash--nope.  Select Trash folder>Edit>Select all>Delete--nope.  Even 
> if I select an >individual message< in the Trash folder & click the 
> Delete button or Edit>Delete message, nothing happens--the trashed 
> messages just sit there.  I've also tried to delete from the command 
> line; but the messages in the Trash folder are not showing up as 
> separate files, but as one big file marked "Trash"--and I'm assuming 
> that if I deleted that, I would be deleting the Trash folder itself.
>
> I've searched the Mozilla site--no ref to this behavior as a known 
> bug--no ref to it at all that I can find. Has anyone else encountered 
> this behavior in Moz 1.6 for MacOSX? Any luck solving it? Can you 
> point me to somewhere in the Mozilla cosmos where I can get more info?
>
> Thanks for any insights.    --Harvey
>
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