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From: "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Obsolete files in Profile
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:53:07 -0400
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On 4/25/25 07:59 AM, knuttle wrote:
> Since I did this while transferring Thunderbird to a new faster computer, I do not know if 
> it affected the operating speed of Thunderbird.

If the files are obsolete, then they don't get used and don't get accessed so they don't 
slow anything down.

They take up space, that's it.   It's more of a visual thing to us humans since disk space 
has become almost a non issue.   IMHO

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Linux Mint 22.1, Cinnamon 6.4.8,  Kernel 6.8.0-58-generic
Thunderbird 128.9.2esr, Mozilla Firefox 137.0.2
     Alan K.