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Migrating just the LOCAL MAILS from Thunderbird (on one Laptop) to Portable (on another Laptop)

Submitted by Verydeep56 on November 6, 2011 - 2:16pm

All I want to do is to TAKE A COPY of all emails in my Local (Thunderbird) folders, and STORE/ACCESS them in another environment. Purpose here is to kind of archive the current LOCAL EMAILS on another Laptop. Please advise if following will work:

1. Install Portable in target Laptop
2. Replicate Settings (for Thunderbird Local) from Current Laptop to Portable
3. Copy the Thunderbird Local Files to Portable

Thanks,

GPG for Thunderbird portable has a problem handling file has multibyte character path

Submitted by ogoshi on November 6, 2011 - 1:01am

Hi, all.

I'm using Thunderbird portable 7.0.1 with enigmail 1.3.2 and GnuPG for
Thunderbird portable 1.4.11 on windows vista (or 7).

Then, I'm facing a problem that case if the windows user has registered his
name using multibyte character name (e.g. Japanese), to encrypt the attached
file failed.

The gpg application complains me;

> gpg: can't create `C:\\Users\\2.\\AppData\Local\Temp\ENCFIL~1' : No such file or directory
> gpg: C:\\var\test.txt: encryption failed: file create error

Of course my username is not '2.'.

Portable Thunderbird Melt-Down

Submitted by JamesGlitz on October 24, 2011 - 4:47pm

I posted this in the Thunderbird support forum, but haven't received a reply, and have an event with 200 people coming up in two days without access to my emails, so I hope no one's offended by the crosspost.

Portable Thunderbird OSX meltdown
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I am running Portable Thunderbird on a USB drive on OSX. Today it just crashed completely - got stuck opening a message. When I restarted, all my folders were gone, everything moves at a snail's pace, but my settings remained.

"Delete" working differently in v7.0.1 / roll back to previous version?

Submitted by Griswold on October 18, 2011 - 11:41pm

I recently updated to v7.0.1 and notice that when I have an e-mail message open, and press either the Delete key on the keyboard or the Delete button in the application, it deletes the message and returns to the inbox.

Until this time, pressing either of these would delete the message and open the next unread message.

Was wondering if anyone was having a similar issue and if there was a fix. I've closed and restarted Thunderbird and have since restarted the computer with no change.

how can I get Thunderbird to look in local folders for emails & folders instead of online?

Submitted by beth050764 on October 18, 2011 - 11:43am

I installed thunderbidportable2ndprofile on my flash drive. After downloading all emails, I copied them to DVD. How do I get thunderbirdportable2ndprofile to look on the DVD and open those emails and folders instead of going on line again?

Thanks
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