Thunderbird Portable

I telecommute and use a number of desktops and laptops. I've really enjoyed having my email with me via a USB drive. I worry though, what could happen if I ever lost the drive - most likely someone would just wipe it clean for their own use, but what if they did go through my mail?

From searching around through the forums, it appears that there are some ways of encrypting drives, most of which require administrative rights, though some more complex methods may avoid this (?). But it is really just my email that I'm concerned about.

I am trying to copy mail from my f drive to c drive. When I am in Windows Explorer, which file do I copy, and which file do I paste it into?

Also, must I set up the accounts in the c drive, or do the accounts automatically transfer.

Thanks

Hi everybody,

Can any one tell me how to put a password to lock my local folders, so that only I can access it.

"thunderbird.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

The error message appears, without the program even appearing first. It's happened every time since I updated to the new version number of thunderbird (minor update, e.g 2.10 to 2.11 or whatever number it is now).

Has anyone got any ideas on maybe how I could fix this, or if not where can I find backdated versions of thunderbird portable?

When I try to get my e-mail it sets for quite some time and then says that pop.earthlink.net has timed out I can send e-mail with no problems, I have checked the pop setting they seem to be correct, I have checked mail2web and I have mail, I have deleted tbird and reinstalled a newer version, this didn't help, I have completely deleted and tried that and it still didn't work.

When I load Portable Thunderbird version 2.0.0.12 (20080213) I alway get the following message in red at the bottom of the display:

<menu id="offlineMenuItem" insertafter="trashMenuSeparator" label="&offlineMenu.label ;" accesskey="&offlineMenu.accesskey;">----^

I had to type the error message because it is diplaying sat the bottom of the screen and I cannot copy paste the message.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

JPB

I have tried to download 2.0.0.12 four times, and each time when I try to install it, I keep getting a "16 Bit" error and the installer stops?

Is the download corrupted?

Not sure what happened, but starting last night for no apparent reason, I can't get thunderbird to launch firefox anymore when a link is clicked. i've reloaded thunderbird (the version from this site) and it has not helped ... any ideas?

[i do have launchy installed; i just installed thunderbrowser to see if that helped ... it works, but i still can't get a link to open in firefox portable from it ... firefox IS the default browser as far as I'm aware, unless that can be 'overridden' somewhere]

This is a copy and paste from a thread a also started over at the mozillazine forums.

G'day.

I use portable Thunderbird and have had no dramas up until now.
I have been using version 2.0.0.6 for ages and decided that i had better upgrade after reading the secunia warning http://secunia.com/advisories/29133/
So i grab the latest thunderbird portable https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable and proceed to remove the original thunderbird folder from my usb drive and replace it with the latest version and copy my profile back to the usb drive.

I just got a message from Thunderbird that a new version had been downloaded and that I should restart Thunderbird to install it, which I did. Now Thunderbird does not work anymore. I can double-click the Icon and I get the Portable Apps splash screen. Then nothing. I have already restarted my computer, but it does not help. How do I get Thunderbird back to work without losing all my emails and having to go through all the configuration settings again?