Hi Guys
I've been using Thunderbird, firefox and a few other things on my usb stick for a while now. I would like to upgrade from my 2Gb stick to and 8Gb one but I am having problems getting the apps to move without corrupting. I know i can reinstall onto the new drive but i don't want to lose existing application data. In particular thunderbird, as i don't want to lose my mail and settings.
What I have tried is a) directly copying the file across 2) using Toucan to 'backup' to the new usb stick c) reinstalling over the top of a copied thunderbird install. All of these cause Thunderbird to crash on startup.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
Chris
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copying everything over should work. however, if you end up with a corruption, make a backup copy of ONLY the [AppName]Portable/Data directory and save it somewhere else. Then delete the [AppName]Portable directory. Then reinstall the app. Then copy your backed up Data directory into the new [AppName]Portable install.
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It sounds like you're having a drive or hardware issue.
Try copying it all locally to C:\ first. Then ensure that your apps still work. If they do, then the old drive is good. If not, it's bad and you need to move your data off piecemeal verifying each bit of it works.
Then try copying it to the new drive from C:\. If it fails, the new drive is bad. Or you have a bad USB port.
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I thought that some Apps don't like when their paths change as they only adjust the drive letter. Wouldn't these be corrupted by doing that?
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You are correct in the fact that they don't like there paths changed. However if you just put them in the C:\ directory and don't run them then they will be unaffected.
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I should read more carefully...
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To test your hardware (flash drives) you can use H2testw. I wrote something about it in this thread.