Mountain Lion Mail - bin items will not delete

I use Mountain Lion Mail and use Google IMAP. In mail box behaviours I have it set to Trash-> move deleted messages to the trash mailbox. The items go the bin. However when I got to Mailbox-> Erase deleted items nothing happens. In Gmail I have it set to delete immediately. But nothing seems to work in Mail. I have 16,389 message in the bin!!!! How do I delete these messages rather than going in one by one? Trash under the Top right hand heading of Mailboxes does delete it is just the bin that does not erase any emails. IMAP in Gmail is set to Auto-Expunge On - Immediately update the server (default). Do I have a setting wrong somewhere?

Try reinstalling Mountain Lion:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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