FredricJLowe said

I saw I had almost 30,000 txt messages on a Gmail account that I had created a gmail account for on Thunderbird. I didn't realize that they were going here from Gmail. I highlighted all of them and attempted to delete them. The spinning circle finally went away and all of them were gone. But when I tried to do anything else on Thunderbird with my regular email accounts (Comcast & Hotmail), I would get a spinning circle and Thunderbird is not responding. I had to use Ctrl Alt Del and then reopen. I tried compacting but this morning when I tried to write an email from one of my Comcast emails in Thunderbird, again I got the spinning circle and Thunderbird is not responding. In order to do anything, I have to close the program by hitting Crrl Alt Del and try again. My Trash Local folders says 8300. This morning, when I tried accessing Thunderbird at the bottom of the taskbar it said, "downloading....of 17,000 to All Mail. Had no clue what that meant. I let it continue until all were and thought my issue would be resolved. But no. :( Something obviously got corrupted in the program. What do I need to do to fix this? Thank you. Fred

When I try to go the Gmail address. it has the spinning circle and says, "opening folder and at the top Thunderbird is Not Responding"

Whenever I try to write a message now, I get the spinning circle and Thunderbird is not responding. I have to hit Ctrl Alt Del in order to close the program and relaunch it.

Have you tried to logon to your gmail-account from FF or IE and deleted them there? Then you can delete (or move) %AppData%\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\??????.default\ImapMail\imap.googlemail.com\INBOX.* Now it should recreate a new inbox with the emails you left at Gmail.

When you delete an email on a IMAP-account your mailclient should delete it from the mailserver also. Thus creating a lot of traffic. If you delete it ONLY on your pc it might get stuck on recreating and downloading all 30000 emails.

I was able to delete the gmail account from Thunderbird by going into Account Settings. Got the spinning circle but it worked through. I let it compact the folders. I now see a reply from Gnospen from Mozilla Report so I haven't had a chance to do that yet. I'll advise if the issue is fixed. But will also try Gnospen's advice. TY

Problem is fixed. By removing that gmail account, it cleared up. TY for your help!!

FredricJLowe said

Problem is fixed. By removing that gmail account, it cleared up. TY for your help!!

Please select problem solved for your own answer

These answers don't help me. I regularly empty my trash. I regularly delete the emails on my gmail.com account. So it is not an overloading problem. But yesterday, when I click on "inbox", the circle goes round and round and nothing loads. I can go to my gmail.com account and read my emails there. but I want them in my thunderbird program.

Please start your own question as this is marked as solved and no longer on "need help"-list. You can then describe your problem more in detail.