Encrypted Thunderbird-Profile

Hi,

I have installed PortableApps-Base on my USB-Device the first time. Installed a few PortableApps applications like Firefox Portable, Thunderbird Portable and so on. The problem is that the Mozilla Profiles are saved in "plain-text"(not encrypted) on the USB-Device. So in case of loosing my stick everyone is able to look through all my emails and so on.

Besides the PortableApps applications I installed TrueCrypt and run it in Traveler-Mode. So from my point of view there a two alternative solutions to prevent others from watching my profile-data:

1) Create a TrueCrypt container-file. Mount this container-file as a virtual drive let us say Z: and install all PortableApps onto this virtual drive Z:. So everything including all applications is know encrypted. But because of the need to load a virtual device driver by TrueCrypt it is neccessary to have admin privleges on windows systems. So, I cannot even run a single application because I have to install everything(because of the PortableApps-Menu) into the virtual drive Z:.

2) I install all PortableApps directly on the USB-Device without any encryption. Now I create a TrueCrypt container file. Mount this file as the virtual drive let us say Z: again. Run the following command to create a new Thunderbird-Profile(assuming that my USB-Device is drive G:):

G:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\App\Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -profile "Z:\TBprofile" -CreateProfile

Furthermore, I copied G:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Other\Source\ThunderbirdPortable.ini to G:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable and tried to change the Profile-Location pointing to my profile at the given Location on the virtual drive Z:

But it seems that only relative path-values are supported because the ThunderbirdPortable.exs-Launcher creates the directories "Z\TBprofile" in the base directory "G:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable"

Because I want to use the PortableApps also at university I need to get the second solution(mentioned above) running. I do not need access to my mails at university because I have a separate mail-account with web-access but I would like to use other applications like OpenOffice. So my questions are:

- Are there any known solutions and/or workarounds to use Profiles located on different drives?
- Is there any other known solution and/or workaround to ensure profile encryption of at least Thunderbird Portable and Sunbird Portable

For the sake of completeness, I used the latest german downloads that was available today. So I think everyone can reproduce the situation easily.

Sorry in response to the guidelines for this rather long post. But I do not know how to give a shorter explanation of the situation in english.

Thanks a lot in advance.