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Re: Obsolete files in Profile

From knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Obsolete files in Profile
Date 2025-04-25 08:37 -0400
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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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