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Without panacea.dat, how do I clear my recent folders list?

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Hey, folks! To clear my list of recent folders, I used to simply delete panacea.dat from the profile folder and let Thunderbird rebuild it. But now I see that panacea.dat is no longer there (running 102.0 beta on Windows 10).

Is there a new way to reset/clear that list now that panacea.dat is gone? Thanks for suggestions!

Hey, folks! To clear my list of recent folders, I used to simply delete panacea.dat from the profile folder and let Thunderbird rebuild it. But now I see that panacea.dat is no longer there (running 102.0 beta on Windows 10). Is there a new way to reset/clear that list now that panacea.dat is gone? Thanks for suggestions!

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delete folderCache.json

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Nope, no joy — didn’t clear the list.

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There is the bug where the file name was changed. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418551#c74

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Nope, didn’t work! I deleted folderCache.json, but it didn’t change anything — the old list of recent folders remains.