Keeps asking me if I want to subscribe to news...
Mike "Piedmont"
Account that I set up originally and each time I click on a newsgroup in
my original News Account, it endlessly asks me if I want to subscribe. I
deleted the rouge "news" account, rebooted my PC and still, each and
every time I click on a newsgroup, I get asked if I want to subscribe to
it. What can I do?
Chris Ilias
This can happen, if you've clicked on a link to a news server you
already have an account for in Thunderbird. Removing the account via
Account Settings isn't enough. After you've removed it, you need to
close Thunderbird, go to your profile folder[1], 'right-click -> Edit'
on the prefs.js file, and remove any lines in prefs.js pertaining to the
news account in question.
[1] http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
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Michael
account is removed from account settings? Why the extra steps to remove
leftover junk?
Melchert Fruitema
> Chris Ilias wrote:
>> _Mike "Piedmont"_ spoke thusly on 05/03/2006 1:30 AM:
>> This can happen, if you've clicked on a link to a news server you
>> already have an account for in Thunderbird. Removing the account via
>> Account Settings isn't enough. After you've removed it, you need to
>> close Thunderbird, go to your profile folder[1], 'right-click -> Edit'
>> on the prefs.js file, and remove any lines in prefs.js pertaining to the
>> news account in question.
>> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
to get rid of everything and add it again?
| Why wouldn't Thunderbird automatically delete these references when
the account is removed from account settings? Why the extra steps to
remove leftover junk?
Please, bottom post in Mozilla news groups, next time. Thank you.
.
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Melchert
MacOS 10.3.9/Firefox 1.5/Thunderbird 1.5
V S Rawat
> Chris Ilias wrote:
> > _Mike "Piedmont"_ spoke thusly on 05/03/2006 1:30 AM:
> > > All of a sudden, in "Local Folders", "news" shows up under
> > > the News Account that I set up originally and each time I
> > > click on a newsgroup in my original News Account, it
> > > endlessly asks me if I want to subscribe. I deleted the
> > > rouge "news" account, rebooted my PC and still, each and
> > > every time I click on a newsgroup, I get asked if I want
> > > to subscribe to it. What can I do?
> >
> > This can happen, if you've clicked on a link to a news
> > server you already have an account for in Thunderbird.
> > Removing the account via Account Settings isn't enough.
> > After you've removed it, you need to
> >close Thunderbird, go to your profile folder[1], 'right-click
> -> Edit'
> > on the prefs.js file, and remove any lines in prefs.js
> > pertaining to the news account in question.
> >
> > [1] http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
> Why wouldn't Thunderbird automatically delete these references
> when the account is removed from account settings? Why the
> extra steps to remove leftover junk?
>
It is the policy of most of the software that userdata is not
removed.
If you uninstall programs, you will find that several software
do remove every of the files they had put in, even the drivers,
but they leave the files in which users had made some settings,
or had stored some data, or even log files.
I think it is a wise thing. If you mistakenly uninstall/ delete
something, your data is not gone in thin air.
At most, TB should give an alert that the data is not removed,
or, better, it can even ask whether you want the data files to
be deleted.
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Chris Ilias
[Please place your reply below the quoted text, when posting in this
newsgroup. Thanks.]
This anomaly only happens if you click on a link to a news server, you
already have an account for in Thunderbird. If you simply set up an
account, read some messages, post a few messages, and remove the account
via 'Account Settings' you won't have to edit your prefs.js file.