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Sunbird: penalty for not starting out with Lighning? address book architecture?

Submitted by jsbenson on September 4, 2006 - 7:20pm

Hi, I've just started using portable Thunderbird and Sunbird. I like the idea of address book integration but the public calendaring stuff leaves me cold in an age of snooping.

My current plan is to continue until Lightning and Sunbird are past the 1.0 hump and then move from Sunbird to Lightning. Here is my question:

Will I experience any more pain moving from Sunbird to Lightning in, say, a year as opposed to starting out with Lightning right now? My guess is that standalone Sunbird is a little more mature just based on version numbers--please correct me if I'm wrong. Also, I want a rock-solid Thunderbird app since I depend on it for email, which inclines me to caution. I expect a future cutover from Sunbird to Lightning to be easy given their close relationship (or perhaps even identity to a large extent).

Sunbird: Request/Clarification

Submitted by takyrob on August 22, 2006 - 11:22pm

Fellow Users,

I am hoping that S.B.P. could have the option of uploading a calendar to a specific web server so that myself and my other co workers can access the same calendar and know what each others scheduels are, im trying to do this but im not sure what im doing wrong (pending this is an available function) if some one knows how to do this or clarify if this is a current option i would greatly appreciate your time

Thanks

~takyrob

Sunbird: Copying "Profile" from Hard drive didn't work

Submitted by stuartnz on August 15, 2006 - 8:22am

I copied all files from
C:\Documents and Settings\~\Application Data\Mozilla\Sunbird\Profiles\5mrt7ds9.default

into
SunbirdPortable\Data\profile

and when I opened Sunbird Portable, I got a completely empty calendar. What am I doing wrong? Here's a screenshot of the two directories to illustrate what I've done:
http://maxqnzs.com/screenshots/sunbird.jpg

AbiWord.exe was not found.

Submitted by gcasanova on August 12, 2006 - 9:07pm

I've upgraded to the newest version of AbiWord but now I can't open it. I'm always getting this error: "AbiWord.exe was not found. Please check your configuration."

I've tried checking my settins but I don't see anything wrong.

All I did before upgrading was delete the old AbiWord because it had an Apps folder instead of the new App folder in version 2.4.5. I thought both folders weren't needed.

Can anybody tell me what I should do?

AbiWord: John, suggestion...

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on August 11, 2006 - 11:18pm

If at all possible, could you please make the next version of AWP not store the custom dictionary in %userprofile%\AbiSuite, and if that's not possible, try to convince the AbiWord developers to stop storing it there. That's the only barrier to true portability with AbiWord: custom dictionary entries get left behind on the host computer. I get tired of re-adding the same words to the dictionary on every computer I use--especially since the built-in dictionary doesn't recognize a lot of valid words, like "undiagnosed".

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