Re: Remove Thunderbird email account

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:34:27 UTC, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 06/27/16 02:03 PM, Barbara wrote:
> > I need to delete a no longer needed email account, plus all email for that
> > account from Thunderbird.
> >
> > Thinking I knew what I was doing, (ha).. I went into account settings,
> > highlighted the account, and using the little "Account Actions" down arrow,
> > chose "REMOVE ACCOUNT"
> >
> > It went away alright, but the mail is still there on my computer and in my
> > profile under the "MAIL" directory.  For those who like details that's:
> > Thunderbird > Profiles > Profilename > Mail, where the unwanted account has it's
> > own folder holding all mail ever sent or received.  There are also three other
> > account folders I want to keep.
> >
> > Is it OK to just delete that unwanted account folder without messing up my
> > profile?
> >
> 
> Should be fine, delete the corresponding msf file as well. Perhaps the 
> parent one as well and as Lars said, make a backup first.
> You also should leave TB running for a while for the folders to get 
> re-indexed, you can look at the activity monitor under Tools to see the 
> progress.
> Dave

Thanks guys.  That seems to have worked.  (I *ALWAYS* make a backup first..)

I deleted the .msf file, then the folder.  Started Thunderbird up and saw no 
activity (blank) on the Activity Monitor.  Maybe it went so fast I didn't catch 
it since that was my least used email account and it finished before I turned it
on.  

Now I'm off to do a new profile backup.    :)

-- 
Barbara