
A small timesaving trick when emptying Mail’s Trash
February 18th, 2010 admin

I have multiple mail accounts and folders set up in Mail, including the Junk folder. I found that after deleting mail from the Junk folder, and from multiple different accounts’ inboxes, that when I went to the Trash and selected all items and pressed the Delete key, only some of the items would be deleted — I would have to “select all” a
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