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Originally Posted by atikovi
Since I have over 80,000 messages in the trash file, it would take forever to find something I deleted ...
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It seems to me that "Trash" isn't doing anything useful for you, as you're just using it as a long-term dumping ground.
I don't know if, before things end up in Trash, you keep them in subject-related folders? But if you do the sensible way to keep long-term stuff is in subject-related long-term folders.
In your position I'd sort out the existing contents of the Trash folder so that there's some segregation, even if it's only eg by month or year received. Then at least any searches you do later of that stuff can be limited to roughly when you think the mail arrived.
Separately from that I'd give yourself a weekly or monthly (or whatever) task - to take whatever's in Trash (from now on) and move all of it to a "Deleted in Oct 2018" (or whatever) folder. Then at least from now on you'll be able to find things by the month of deletion.