Email won't let me empty trash, then crashes

When I try to empty my email trash, it says it cannot, then it crashes.
Also, I frequently get a "slow script" error message.
Any ideas?
Please help.
Thank you

Thanks for letting us know how things are going.
It is recommended that you keep at least 15% of your hard drive space free to enable OS X to run smoothly.
I was about to suggest the sledgehammer approach of deleting a user account if nothing else worked. I'm glad you found another, less drastic, way.
You may continue to have problems from the after-effects of a too-full hard drive and may benefit from using the OS X Install disc again to repair the hard drive once you have deleted enough material to regain the proper amount of hard drive space. Then restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane.
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar, ("Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). Repair permissions on it.
Good going!

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