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The ThunderPlunger Thunderbird extension provides a few new ways to keep Thunderbird clean. This function will remove these files from your disk. Access this function from the context menu for any news account folder by selecting "Remove 'Orphaned' Files". Once you restart Thunderbird, any such files will be removed for that account.

When you remove a POP3 email, RSS, or News account Thunderbird seems to leave many of the account's files lying around on disk. This may be to assist in a future "un-remove" or archival process.

But the disk consumed by some accounts can become quite large and sometimes you really just want to permanently and completely remove an account. This function helps keep your computer clean by removing folders that are determined to be "orphaned" from any known current account.

Select "Clean Accounts" from the menu available from ThunderPlunger's status bar icon.

ThunderPlunger will check the following to identify probable "orphaned" folders for removal:
· Thunderbird's default POP3 email storage location
· Thunderbird's default NNTP (News) storage location
· A historical log, established and maintained by this add-on, of past and current accounts