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Thunderbird Portable

Lost all emails profiles

Submitted by richurdwong on October 1, 2012 - 11:58pm

I was using portable for more than a year but suddenly when I open thunderbird last night, I found all my emails profiles has disappear and the application is asking me to create new profiles again. So can I locate back my emails profiles folders especially the sent folders and the archives folders. Anyone able to advise? Thank you.

Richurd

Thunderbird 15.0.1 leaves behind folders AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Extensions

Submitted by m0d on September 24, 2012 - 1:11pm

Sometimes this gets left behind (it is not always removed by app), too - AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Crash Reports\InstallTime .*

And, it does not seem to clear this automatically when found, on restart.

On the other hand,
Firefox 15.0.1 creates and removes this folder, [AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Extensions].

One thing I noticed is that Thunderbird creates a separate folder for
AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Crash Reports\InstallTime .*
Meanwhile,
Firefox uses AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports
And,

Transferring settings from memory stick to memory stick

Submitted by Mike W on September 20, 2012 - 11:11am

For a few years now I have used a sandisk cruzer titanium U3 stick with Thunderbird for my emails. Now have Windows 7 and I know it doesn't work with 7.

How can I transfer my email settings and, if possible, all my emails, from the cruzer to a new memory stick.

Thanks,

Mike

Thunderbird portable version not correctly recognized

Submitted by Jorge XXXXX on September 15, 2012 - 6:53am

When I try to install some addons or personas from mozilla addons the button for instalation is greyed out and if I click I get this message:

Esta Persona requiere Thunderbird 3.1.Actualmente estás usando Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

Trad:

This persona requires Thunderbird 3.1.*. You are currently using Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

I'm not really sure if the version of TBP is badly encoded in some place or is a problem with some addons. I really got this problem with every persona I try to install and only some addons.

Portable Thunderbird 15 not working in Ubuntu Wine 1.4

Submitted by winghoe on September 11, 2012 - 6:21am

Hi,

I have just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and thought that with Wine 1.4, I could get Thunderbird Portable on my USB stick to run flawlessly. However, that wasn't the case and Thunderbird could not start.

I've done a lot of tests and hope that this can help to diagnose what's wrong. My suspect after all these testings, seem to point to "prefs.js".

Scenario #1
1. Download and install fresh copy of Thunderbird Portable in hard disk.
2. Double click ThunderbirdPortable.exe.
3. Thunderbird Portable (via Wine) started up.
Conclusion: Thunderbird Portable is working.

Changing thunderbird portable ICON

Submitted by Lope on August 29, 2012 - 8:34am

I run 2 instances of TB at once. One for personal emails, and one for work.
I'd like to change the icon of the Work Thunderbird so that its obvious which is which, because i switch between them all day long.

I opened up ThunderbirdPortable.exe in XN Resource Editor 3.0.0.1
Saved the icon 103 as an icon (with all the diff icon formats inside)

Opened the icon in IcoFX, edited the icons.
Then in XN Resource editor I added the new ICON, removed the old one, changed the language and resource number to be the same.

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