Hi Paul,
In my experience, if I open a folder like the InBox, and move one message
to the Trash folder, it will take some time. This happens not only when
moving, replying or forwarding an email right after the folder containing it is
opened. But when I do the same to the next emails in that folder--delete,
move, reply or forward--it will not take as long.
So I move to the Trash one email as soon as I open the InBox--the command
is CONTROL with 8 or BACKSPACE with dots 2356--and then I mark the rest that I
want to delete--the command for marking is CONTROL with SPACE or SPACE with
m--then I execute the delete command to move all of them to the Trash. Since
this is not the first time I executed a command in the folder, the messages are
deleted faster compared to what happens if I marked all of them before using
the command on just one email first.
If I mark ten messages right away, then moving them to Trash takes about
3.5 minutes. If I delete the first one only, it takes about 30 seconds; and
when I mark the other nine and delete them as a group, it takes about 30
seconds also--a total of roughly just one minute. I wonder if this will work
for others as it does with me. In summary, delete only one email first, then
mark the others you want to move to Trash and execute the delete command.
I hope this helps,
Kirstyn
