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There are complaints and worried people in Support Forum regarding the pop up message that says  "The messages you have deleted  can be purged from disk. Select the option to let TB do this automatically";  with a check box.
followed by two button: "proceed" & "cancel". 

The wording of 'purge' is causing concern that it has nothing to do with 'compact' which users understand and it is the wording used in the Options/Preferences and also in all the help Articles and user Question threads, Thunderbird Support Forum and  http://kb.mozillazine.org  and other places you can find via Google.
'Purge' might be a word familiar amongst developers, but it is not a term used by the general populous of Thunderbird users.

The users say:
The popup message is misleading. It should say something like "Your Inbox can be compacted, which will free up XX MBytes of disk space. Compact now?"
Then it is understood what that message actually means and it also matches the option selected in the Options Disk Space section.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308222

One person says "I compact all the time...... If I select 'proceed' my trash is permanently lost."   They do not want their 'Trash' folder emptied.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1312686
There are complaints and worried people in Support Forum regarding the pop up message that says  "The messages you have deleted  can be purged from disk. Select the option to let TB do this automatically";  with a check box.
followed by two button: "proceed" & "cancel". 

The wording of 'purge' is causing concern that it has nothing to do with 'compact' which users understand and it is the wording used in the Options/Preferences and also in all the help Articles and user Question threads, Thunderbird Support Forum and  http://kb.mozillazine.org  and other places you can find via Google.
'Purge' might be a word familiar amongst developers, but it is not a term used by the general populous of Thunderbird users.

The users say:
The popup message is misleading. It should say something like "Your Inbox can be compacted, which will free up XX MBytes of disk space. Compact now?"
Then it is understood what that message actually means and it also matches the option selected in the Options Disk Space section.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1308222

One person says "I compact all the time...... If I select 'proceed' my trash is permanently lost."   They do not want their 'Trash' folder emptied.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1312686

The "The messages you have deleted  can be purged from disk"  may mean the 'marked as deleted' and 'hidden' emails, but it seems to also mean the deleted messages currently in the 'Trash/Deleted' folder.  This is clearly causing real confusion and with unexpected results.

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