How can I get rid of old archives?

I added an old Gmail account to my Thunderbird application on my Mac (newish MacBook Pro with the Mavericks). I checked "Keep messages for this account on this computer" in the "Synchronization & storage" section of the account settings.
I finished with a record of archive 285 GB! It took me almost a month to understand why my hard drive space was suddenly disappear... Mavericks hides the folder from the library, while it was difficult to find the file to archive.
In any case, I unchecked the "Keep messages for this account on this computer" setting and file to archive went quickly up to 192 GB. However, according to my hosting provider, the other IMAP address I have Thunderbird is only 6 GB in size. I have the box checked for this account, and I don't want to archive locally this address.
How can I get rid of all these additional e-mail archives? I don't need about 200 GB of archived email! My hard drive is 500 GB!

The .msf files are clues for the other files.
http://KB.mozillazine.org/Nstmp_folders

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