diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 91f550c84..a0b47d5fe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 CHANGELOG Roundcube Webmail
 ===========================
 
+- Fix purge action in folder manager (#1489280)
 - Fix base URL resolving on attribute values with no quotes (#1489275)
 - Fix wrong handling of links with '|' character (#1489276)
 - Fix colorspace issue on image conversion using ImageMagick (#1489270)
diff --git a/program/js/app.js b/program/js/app.js
index 8e6a6fff3..73612381f 100644
--- a/program/js/app.js
+++ b/program/js/app.js
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ function rcube_webmail()
         }
         else if (this.env.action == 'edit-folder' && this.gui_objects.editform) {
           this.enable_command('save', 'folder-size', true);
-          parent.rcmail.env.messagecount = this.env.messagecount;
+          parent.rcmail.env.exists = this.env.messagecount;
           parent.rcmail.enable_command('purge', this.env.messagecount);
           $("input[type='text']").first().select();
         }