Thunderbird Portable

I recently installed the Google Desktop Search Beta 4. Although it claims to index Thunderbird mail (as long as the app is open), it has fine none of my emails. I think PTB doesn't give Google Desktop any signal that it is there, so Google doesn't look for its files.

Anyone know of a workaround?

-----Paul-----

Version: 1.5.0.2 (20060308)with enigmail + GPG
Recently i received a pop up saying that a newer version 1.5.0.4 was ready to install. So i backup me profile and allowed the update to continue. upon updating it said that it was missing some file and could not complete. since then i am not able to receive or send any emails from my gmail account and i receive this message... Sending password did not succeed. Mail at pop.gmail.com responded: user name and password not accepted.
i have not changed any of these settings and i am able to login with my user name and password. (i have tried to verify my passowrd in ptb settings but cannot locate?) thanks for your help...

When i use portable thunderbird it says that it connected, but it never downloads the mail. if i exit the program while it is connecting it "kills" the connection. this prevents me from downloading my mail.

Note: i have checked to make sure that all of my settings, username, and password are correct.

Dear Forum,

I started my use PTB with version 1.0.5 beta.

Migrated to PTB 1.0.7 beta by extracting the new version to its own folder named "Portable Thunderbird". Afterwards I copied the complete "\profile" folder into the new location.
As far as I can remember, everything worked just fine that way. I had my two accounts properly "imported", as well as "subfolders", into which I manually used to move received mails, depending on who sent me that specific mail.

After a reformat/clean install of WinXP Home SP2 I decided I wanted to go with portable programs wherever possible. PTB 1.502 + Enigmail & GPG installed fine and copying my previous profiles and data directories seemed to work OK. That was a couple of days ago. Now I am beginning to see a problem.

When initially signed in, I see no problems but after PTB has been running for several hours I find an apparent issue. I use filters to sort emails into a bunch of different folders based on sender or subject. The header for the folder lights up and says there are x new mails. I click on the folder and, voila', there are no new mails in the folder.

PTB 1.5.0.2 starts downloading the update although I didn't check the update function!

Starting today, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare report a virus in PortableThunderbird.exe, and in ALL Executable files from Portable Apps.
I scanned those files with Panda Antivirus and no virus found.

LOG from OneCare (partial):

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Antivirus

07.06.2006 10:49 Windows Live OneCare found a virus on your computer
FileName: G:\_Portable_Apps\PortableVLC_0.8.5\PortableVLC.exe
Temporary local copy: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MalwareProtection\LocalCopies\PortableVLC.exe
VirusName: TrojanDownloader:Win32/Agent!DE3E

Hi

I love the idea of being able to run Thunderbird from my USB flash drive. I liked it so much in fact that I decided to set up two other Portable Thunderbird flash drives for a couple of friends of mine.

I am however having a couple of problems if someone could help me out please.

Firstly for some reason when I have tested these different drives with different accounts set up I have noticed that in...

Options/Privacy/Passwords/Viewsavedpasswords

I can see my username but with the password of the actual account of the drive currently plugged in ! This is a little scary security wise. By the way each account has been created separately and each flash drive only has one account on it.

For the record, I'm running PTB 1.5.0.4 (as of an update this morning) off a USB 2.0 HDD.

My WinXP Pro (SP2) system crashed while I was working this morning. At the time, I had just restarted PTB after the 1.5.0.4 update. Now, when I start PTB, it comes up thinking that there are NO accounts configured for it. How, if it's even possible, can I recover my profile and data? As far as I can tell, all of the actual mail storage files, etc. are still there. PTB just doesn't seem to know about any of it.

If this is an FAQ, please point me in the right direction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Is it possible to modify the PTB launcher to allow multiple profiles. What I mean is, to let the profile chooser come up at startup, and allow me to choose from different profiles, say:

Friends & Family
School
Work
Junk

I know, it seems kinda redundant as PTB can have many accounts, but with all of my accounts, It is getting pretty sluggish, even with compacting, and it is way way way too cluttered. I'm, as you know, a little OC, and it would be nice if I could contain things in different profiles for organizational purposes.

And if it's not too much to ask of you, John, maybe the same option for PFF?