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Copying my computer's entire TB profile into TB portable

Submitted by jbarrington on November 1, 2013 - 2:51pm

I'm using the full version of Thunderbird (v.24.1) on my computer, and the portable version on my USB drive. I'm using Win7 64 bit on my computer.

I've spent a day trying to copy my six email accounts, along with my contacts, current email and their folders, personal settings, and pluggins from my computer and into my portable version. I saw further down under the download link some brief instructions on how to do this within the FAQ area, but either I'm doing it incorrectly, the instructions are old, or the portable version doesn't have a way to utilize all of my transferred items.

which lightning do you use?

Submitted by ottosykora on October 30, 2013 - 4:30am

On the current Thunderbird the lightning seems to get updated and since then it doe not work.
In the list with the extensions, the Lightning is included, but the icon is missing.
No signs of any lightning otherwise.
This was the lightning 2.6.1

I tried then to install the previous version 2.6, but also this one does not seem to work, the calendar tab is empty, it seems not to be able to read the calendar file properly.

Anybody with some experience on this?

Portables Thunderbird hangs after upgrading to Mavericks

Submitted by kepler on October 23, 2013 - 10:25am

The early bird catches the worm? Not this time: I upgraded my MacBook Pro to OS X Mavericks just when it was released last night and since then Portable Thunderbird stopped working. It just hangs after being launched. Any other users affected by that? And more importantly: any idea how to solve the problem?

[Closed] systen gpg instead of portable one

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Submitted by Simeon on October 17, 2013 - 5:34am

Someone mentioned this on IRC and I thought I'd put it here in the tracker:

OpenPGP PGP/GPG v1.4.15rev2 is accessing system's gpg (inside c:\program files\ instead of c:\portable folder), observing such, when i change some configuration inside OpenPGP's preference , advanced gpg commandline.

Havent tested it myself though.

Tb 24.0.1 Enigmatic...no mails offline!

Submitted by Salto on October 14, 2013 - 6:10am

Hi,

Tb installed on a flashdrive for using offline at home. Plugged it in the netbook, offline, could read the mails, but no pictures. Half an hour later no mails available, folders on the left-hand pane not longer existing! Where are the mails?
This Problem occurred several times. I deleted TB and everything else, installed again, for a short period ok-then...look above!

What might be the problem, and, of course, the solution of this riddle?
Thanks for reading this and your hints,
Salto

SOLVED: Thunderbird 24 crashes when adding an .xpi file

Submitted by EOBeav on October 2, 2013 - 9:26pm

I'm pretty sure I've narrowed this down to a bug with the PA version of TBird. It's crashing whenever I try to load in a new extension, in this case the Lightning and Google Provider extensions. I haven't been able to replicate it in the desktop version of TBird 24 that I downloaded directly from their website. That seems to work fine in Win7.

What happens is I go to Add-ons-->Install Add-on from File, then navigate to the .xpi file, the entire app freezes up when I hit 'add'.

Addendum: I've tried this on two different Win7 machines with the same results.

mail merge

Submitted by lordmax on September 22, 2013 - 4:52pm

Hi to all

I'm using thunderbird 24 with extension mail merge 3.5.0

The problem is that nothing happens.

I have a set of well-formed csv file (already used some other times).
I checked that the variables are all correctly typed (they are only 3).

When I start mail merge the working window appear for a moment but then e-mails are not created.

I've looked at the error console and find this:

TB Portable crashes system to blue screen on 64-bit OSs

Submitted by klungkung on September 20, 2013 - 6:01pm

I was forced to move away from TB portable months ago because it kept crashing my system (Win7 64) every time I received mail (sometimes if there were only a couple of emails retrieved it would crash to blue screen when I tried to view the retrieved emails). Seems to have been a common problem as there was a lot about this happening on the net. Couldn't find any solution to stop it crashing. Moved to DreamMail which worked well. Now the European support site for DreamMail is closing up.

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