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Isn’t “Trash” where “deleted”? Analogy to the physical world. You throw in the
trash can, and the trash can gets emptied at some time later. Gives a last chance
to scan whether anything is there which shouldn’t be. You delete trash from among
majority content you want. When you are about to delete trash you scan for all
trash for something which stands out that it shouldn’t be there.
When you delete from “trash” it’s gone “for ever” - there is nothing remaining on
the computer of it.
Sorry if I’ve hopelessly misunderstood your question…
> On 22 Mar 2023, at 07:53, Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21/03/2023 15:22, rds_met wrote:
>> The emails wherever they are should be stored as “flat text” / ASCII text.
>> So if you know phrases or unusual words in the email, recipient’s email
>> addresses, etc., you could search for them with “grep” - the standard
>> unix-toolkit pattern-matcher.
>> As you don’t know where to look, you might fire it up through “find” with
>> something like
>> find . -type f -exec grep ‘contraoscillating’ {} \;
>>> On 21 Mar 2023, at 13:05, Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> My wife uses thunderbird for her emails. She seems to have lost any trace of an
>>> email she sent recently.It is not showing in the sent folder. I have also noted
>>> that she has a trash folder but no deleted folder. I am wondering what happens
>>> to any emails that she deletes.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions please? Before I get into trouble for messing up her system,
>>>
>>> Neil
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> What puzzles me most is the lack of a delete folder. I use TBird too, under
> several user names, and each one has a delete folder which was there automatically
> from the first set up. Her version has a trash folder but no delete folder.
>
> Neil
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