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Continual authorization requests for an account I no longer have access to

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I had a shared gmail account for an organization I was involved with for a few years. Last May, that association ended. I deleted that gmail account off of my Thunderbird. I have no associated calendars on my TB. I have no add-ons on my TB. But every ten minutes or so, this message authentication request pops up on my screen, regardless if TB is even open. It's driving me insane. Please help.

I had a shared gmail account for an organization I was involved with for a few years. Last May, that association ended. I deleted that gmail account off of my Thunderbird. I have no associated calendars on my TB. I have no add-ons on my TB. But every ten minutes or so, this message authentication request pops up on my screen, regardless if TB is even open. It's driving me insane. Please help.
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SOLVED! I kept searching and found this.... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1382177#question-reply

In my prefs.js file, there were several calls for the old gmail account. I think what was really tying it up was the auto-sync every 30 minutes for the address book associated with that account. Hope this helps someone in the future!

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SOLVED! I kept searching and found this.... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1382177#question-reply

In my prefs.js file, there were several calls for the old gmail account. I think what was really tying it up was the auto-sync every 30 minutes for the address book associated with that account. Hope this helps someone in the future!

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