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I'm about to go nuts. Everytime I empty my trash, Mail grabs something out of my Inbox or "Sent" or a folder and places it in the trash. Sometimes the item has been duplicated (my original is still where it belongs), sometimes it is not. If I empty the trash, then click on another folder or file, then go back to the trash, then something has been placed there again. If I go back and forth several times, sometimes the one file remains in the trash, sometimes it adds additional emails. Sometimes the emails are consecutive dates, sometimes they are not.
Basically...it all seems very random.
I just reinstalled my system today because of an unrelated problem (Aperture wouldn't open, now it does--I also re-installed Aperture). I also installed all updates, of course.
What next?
Thank you.
BTW: I've searched the forum without finding anything.
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