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syncing TBP with TB

Submitted by marcolav on September 28, 2008 - 12:44pm

Hello everybody

I just installed TB on a new laptop and want to keep it in sync with my TBP, however it seems TB is ignoring the data I keep copying over.
no matter what i do , TB always starts from scratch, ignoring the profile with all the mail and data.
I have tried starting TB, then moving all the files into the newly created ******.default folder. I have tried creating a new folder and edited the profiles.ini file accordingly, however the only thing that has been updated are the addons

Any suggestions anybody?

thank you

Marco

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Tim Clark - September 28, 2008 - 1:01pm

Note: The poster has searched and was not able to find the right answer.
He was directed to post here by members of the irc channel who were unable to help him.

Welcome Marco, to PortableApps.com

Tim

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I personally use Gmail which

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m-p-3 (Homepage) - September 28, 2008 - 1:48pm

I personally use Gmail which offer IMAP, so I have no sync issues.

Other than that, maybe you could try to make a full synchronization of your profile folder with Toucan?

Toucan is a custom built

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Tim Clark - September 28, 2008 - 1:51pm

Toucan is a custom built portable app for advanced users to synchronise, backup and encrypt their data, wherever they are.

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan

"The wheels of John grind Slowly, But they grind Exceedingly Small" ;-)

Follow up

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Tim Clark - September 28, 2008 - 2:03pm

This post seems to address the OP direct question if he does choose to use Toucan:

Layperson directions for sync'ing TB with Toucan
http://portableapps.com/node/13615

Note to Marco:I myself do not use the program and know little about it's sync functions. If you do decide to use it follow the creators instruction about backing up before testing.

Tim

"The wheels of John grind Slowly, But they grind Exceedingly Small" ;-)

Off topis but just want to

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horusofoz - October 1, 2008 - 3:07am

Off topis but just want to say thanks to Tim Clark for the effort in helping users. Thats pretty cool of you. 8)

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Aciago - September 30, 2008 - 12:06pm

A program to sync the data in your portable data folder with your Documents & Settings/blabla data folder... any sync program can do that...

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report :D

Tutorial.

MaienM - October 4, 2008 - 2:21pm

I've made a small tutorial on how to do this, the topic about it can be found here: http://portableapps.com/node/15889

Sorry for my english, I'm Dutch;)
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