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| From | knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.software.thunderbird |
| Subject | Re: Obsolete files in Profile |
| Date | 2025-04-25 08:37 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vufvm0$3vcar$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vuftfg$3slsk$1@dont-email.me> <vufv42$3v9q6$1@dont-email.me> |
On 4/25/2025 8:28 AM, Newyana2 wrote: > On 4/25/2025 7:59 AM, knuttle wrote: >> A week or two ago I asked how to scrub unused files from my >> Thunderbird Profile folder. I had over 20 Prefix files. >> >> This is what I found. >> https://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_folders_in_the_profile_-_Thunderbird >> >> I removed all of the file that the above said were obsolete or >> replaced by another file in the profile. >> >> It is not on this page but I found the only valid Prefs file was the >> one with the highest number. I remove all of the Prefs files except >> the highest number. ie Prefs1, Prefs2, Prefs3 ... I removed all but >> Prefs3. >> >> Lastly, I looked at the abook.mab files, and realized there are three. >> abook.sqlite, abook.sqlite-shm, and abook.sqlite-wal. >> I remove all the abook files that did not have all three files. >> > I don't have multiple prefs files. And the abook files are > tiny except for the actual address book. I clean up by > weeding out old email and attachments, so that the whole thing > is maybe 40-50MB. > > My question is why there's also a profile in Local, and it seems to > copy much of what's in Roaming. > > > I just check the Thunderbird folder in Local. There are two profiles folders, One is empty. The other looks like it is start up information with a cache, safebrowsing, and startupcache floders. All have minimal data. Has someone tried to transfer a profile and copied it to the wrong folder?
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Obsolete files in Profile knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 07:59 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-25 08:28 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 08:37 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-25 12:09 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 13:19 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-25 22:38 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-04-26 02:04 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-25 09:53 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 10:18 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-04-25 23:45 +0000
Re: Obsolete files in Profile "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-25 21:22 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-04-25 15:55 -0700
Re: Obsolete files in Profile occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2025-04-30 12:10 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-30 07:27 -0400
Re: Obsolete files in Profile occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2025-04-30 14:21 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-30 21:33 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2025-05-01 12:38 +0200
Re: Obsolete files in Profile "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-01 19:53 +0200
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