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I've looked at the articles on keyboard/mouse click shortcuts; and the only reference I saw for emptying the trash said that right clicking on the trash folder would bring up a menu of options and that one of these would be to empty the trash.
Not the case.
I'm using Thunderbird 24.3.0 on an mac running OS 10.9.2 . When I use the mac version of right click (that is -- control click) I get the following menu options: Open in New tab * Open in New Window * Rename * Favorite Folder * Properties
Empty the trash is not among the options. Since this is such a fundamental operation, I would think a keyboard or mouse-click shortcut would be obvious. What am I missing?
I should add that we manage several email accounts and that they all use "Trash on Local Folders".

Thank you for the reply. Sadly, it didn't work.
On a mac, alt and option share the same key. I tried using option/alt in combination with command, control and shift (+f) -- but none worked. None of these combinations did anything at all. Is that a clue? Could a plugin be causing the problem? In search of a resolution, I deactivated most of my Plugins. Those left are:
* Adobe Acrobat NPAPi Plug-in
* AdobeExManDetect 1.1.0
* Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin
* Jave Applet Plug-in Java 7 Update 51
* QuickTime Plug-in 7.7.3
* Sharepoint Browser Plug-in 14.3.1.
* Shockwave Flash 12.0.0.70
Don't know what they do exactly. I have no extensions.
Does this help?

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