After my recent post, I have been working on cleaning up my thunderbird profile which apparently contains a lot of unwanted crud.
I have couple of folders for RSS feed accounts that I had tested a few weeks ago. Although I deleted them, they are still in the profile!!
Deleting sent mail from my pop account does not make any difference in the size of the folder in the profile. Even restarting thunderbird doesn't help.
Any tips to manage the profile and its size?
How to clean up Thunderbird profile crud
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- Daifne
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Deleting mail only marks it for deletion and therefore it doesn't show in the mailbox. You need to compact your folders to complete any delete or move process. See this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders
Since you don't want those RSS feed accounts, you can safely delete the folders in your profile. Deleting an account from within the program again, just sets it so it doesn't appear. A safety feature.
Since you don't want those RSS feed accounts, you can safely delete the folders in your profile. Deleting an account from within the program again, just sets it so it doesn't appear. A safety feature.
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No I don't want to unsubscribe to them. All I wanted to do was delete really-old headers (as I don't download messages for offline reading). I did find an option in the newsgroups account "Offline & Disk Space" > Keep (*) Messages which have arrived within the last [60] days.
I use 60 days and I thought that it would work just fine, but the newgroups account is still eating up around 6MB on my HDD!
I use 60 days and I thought that it would work just fine, but the newgroups account is still eating up around 6MB on my HDD!
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