Thunderbird Frozen & Not Responding

I installed Thunderbird today on a new laptop.
I set up one email account with no problem, however, I have encountered problems after setting up a second email account. Upon setting it up, it proceeded to download thousands of emails going all the way back to 2011 from the server. As they were loading, I was deleting them and got to a point where most were deleted.
However, Thunderbird has now frozen.
When I open it, nothing happens, the cursor timer just rotates, "Not Responding" appears at the top and when I try clicking anywhere, the screen goes white. To close the programme I use Task Manager and try re-opening but with same result. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing and opening in safe mode, but nothing seems to work.
Getting to point of giving up and using a different mail client unless anyone has any suggestions?
Thanks

you are aware you have just deleted all the mails form the server don't you?

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''FredricJLowe [[#question-1041566|said]]''
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I saw I had almost 30,000 txt messages on a Gmail account that I had created a gmail account for on Thunderbird. I didn't realize that they were going here from Gmail. I highlighted all of them and attempted to delete them. The spinning circle finally went away and all of them were gone. But when I tried to do anything else on Thunderbird with my regular email accounts (Comcast & Hotmail), I would get a spinning circle and Thunderbird is not responding. I had to use Ctrl Alt Del and then reopen. I tried compacting but this morning when I tried to write an email from one of my Comcast emails in Thunderbird, again I got the spinning circle and Thunderbird is not responding. In order to do anything, I have to close the program by hitting Crrl Alt Del and try again.
My Trash Local folders says 8300.
This morning, when I tried accessing Thunderbird at the bottom of the taskbar it said, "downloading....of 17,000 to All Mail. Had no clue what that meant. I let it continue until all were and thought my issue would be resolved. But no. :(
Something obviously got corrupted in the program. What do I need to do to fix this?
Thank you.
Fred
</blockquote>
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