I'm trying to make a smooth system that'll allow me to run PTB from different PCs and a memory stick, so that I get the same profile from any location. Is there an idiots guide to using an internet location for the profile?
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Thunderbird Portable takes your profile with you, so you don't have to worry about the profile. The launcher (ThunderbirdPortable.exe) takes care of telling Thunderbird where your profile is so you can just use the program as you would normally.
Each instance I run has different account details, saved searches, addressbook and so on. I can manually replicate the files on all the different hosts but that's unwieldy and prone to operator error. I figure a single internet based profile will enable all of the hosts to use common, and current, settings.
You could use several copies of Thunderbird portable with each of them having another profile. I suggest this cause I don't know of any possibility of using an internet based profile with the standard version of Thunderbird, let alone Thunderbird Portable.
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For me, the point about using the Portable version is that once a setting has been implemented on one host it can be cloned to all the others, so I've got a common tool on any hardware. IMAP makes possible a common and current view of the mail itself. I want to do the same with newly saved searches, rules, address book changes, etc.
This link
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_a_profile_to_Portable_Thunderbird
indicates that it should be possible to edit thunderbirdportable.ini and set ProfileDirectory to a different location. But I don't know how to choose an internet location without a guide.