Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
I was subscribing to a news service XXXXX, which shut down, so I removed the Account via Edit -> Mail & Newsgroup account settings -> Remove Account. The Account disappeared from the account pane (left pane on mail & news display) and from the Edit Mail & Newsgroups display window. HOWEVER when I look at the files and folders where SM related stuff is held, I notice that in the profile's News folder there are still an XXXXX.rc file and an XXXXX.msf file and an XXXXX subfolder containig a hostinfo.dat file. i.e. SM does not delete these when the XXXXX account is deleted! Is this by design? or may I delete these without danger, and are there any other places where traces of XXXXX remain in hiding?
When developers neglect cleaning directories with old/unused/phantom files ... you can decide if this is by design. In my opinion, if it's by design .... it's a bad design.
With my pc, i would look in C:\Documents and Settings\RAY\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\2pj2ffu1.default\pref.js to see if in this files stuff you removed did not exist anymore. Normally, this file is clean. If not, take great care if you want to removing items - some of them are numbered.
Anyway the phantom files of an deleted account can be securely removed. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
