Clear Move-To Recent History

[ichthyosaurus]

Hi, would anyone help me with how to clear the recent history when I move messages? I did it a while back, but forgot how and can't figure it out. Thank you in advance.

[tanstaafl]

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I don't know how to do that. Its not part of tools -> clear recent history. That lets you clear the browsing history, cookies and cache. The activity manager has a clear history button, but that not relevant. The list of recent folders and existing visited links are stored in the panacea.dat file. I suspected the message move history might be in the places.sqlite database but when I deleted places.* and restarted the move recent history is unaffected. One of the folders in my list of recent moves is condo. I used file explorer to search for every file that references it. It found tags for it in prefs.js, the mbox and *.msf files for that folder, the word being defined in a en-gb dictionary, but nothing about where the move-to history is stored. So I assume its in a binary file.

I suspect if you used to be able to clear it that its an option that has been removed from the user interface.

[morat]

The recent folder list is stored in the panacea.dat file. (mail folder cache)

It can be safely deleted to resolve various issues.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_fol ... hunderbird

Here is how to remove a single folder from the recent folder list.

* select folder
* open error console i.e. tools > developer tools > error console
* copy and paste code into error console
* press enter to run
* restart thunderbird

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GetFirstSelectedMsgFolder().setStringProperty("MRMTime", "");

[ichthyosaurus]

Damn, there should be just a simple option

Thanks for the pointers though!