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Select the profile folder

Submitted by iw2nzm on April 7, 2008 - 4:23am

Hello,

I have on my USB pen the backup data of my desktop PC. Among all folders I also have the thunderbird profile one. I'd like to use this for TB portable so I keep it synchronized with the desktop.

The folder's path looks like this:

H:\Documents\Femtotech\Thunderbird

How to configure TB portable to use this folder?

Thanks!
Marco / iw2nzm

by uninstalling Thunderbird: error message: can't delete because of empty registry

Submitted by evelyns on April 7, 2008 - 3:56am

hi,
i have a portable Thunderbird on a USB stick in an encrypted (with TrueCrypt) area.
by removing the stick without demounting it first i damaged my Thunderbird application to the extent that all folders and all mails were gone and i was prompted to set up a new account before being able to use the program.

i wanted to deinstall TB and then reinstall it again. however, by deleting the folders most were gone, except for the Data/Profile/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox and when i try to delete these, i get the error message: Folder can't be deleted because registry is empty.

Large Inbox File

Submitted by stands2reason on April 6, 2008 - 9:28pm

I have an inbox file that is much larger than it should be. I have tried deleting the .msf file and compacting. Also, all of my folders are stored in the same local folders, so I can't find the one that I've having trouble with in particular. Any suggestions?

Custom settings disappeared after update (1.5.0.13 -> 2.0.0.12)

Submitted by novicew on April 2, 2008 - 10:19am

Hi Guys,

I have recently updated the Thunderbird Portable from 1.5.0.13 to 2.0.0.12. Everything went smooth except the user preferences. So far the following problems were observed.

1) In the old version, it was set to delete mails older than 2 weeks. After the update, the setting has disappeared.

2) Header information switched to "All" instead of "Normal".

Is there a way to preserve custom settings? Can I deactivate "Find Updates" function. Previously I could do it by adding "user_pref("xpinstall.enabled", false); " in prefs.js.

TIA

Nov

Getting Hotmail to Work Properly

Submitted by adamdschmidt on March 29, 2008 - 9:09pm

Hi,
I've just started using portable apps. The problem I'm having is when I try to download my Hotmail email to the Portable Thunderbird client. I'm using the server:
pop3.live.com and am using the SSL connection type. I set it up using the "webmail account" settings in Thunderbird. The specific problem I'm having is that I get this message everytime I try to access my email through Thunderbird:

"Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server pop3.live.com responded: mailbox for swavcat@hotmail.com is not available."

Trying to recover mail - TBP

Submitted by michael0429 on March 26, 2008 - 7:04pm

After using a hotel’s internet service, TBP opens but does not display any folders and will not connect. Error message displays “could not initialize browser’s security component.. most likely cause problems with files in browser’s profile directory…” Going to account settings all appear to be in order.

Going to app folder, opening Data, I do not find any mail files.

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