Thunderbird Portable

To whom it may concern:

Thanks for letting me use the Thunderbird Portable. The portability is what I really appreciate about it, but I am experiencing some inconveniences with Version 3.1.7 as follows.

1) History tabs

This is just a minor, almost cosmetic, problem (unless it reflects a deeper issue), but I thought I'd report it anyway.

My mailbox consist of hundreds of folder organised as a tree and I noticed Thunderbird usually touches (i.e. changes the timestamp of) many folders that I haven't even accessed. Can anybody explain why this is happening and if it can be avoided?

The reason why this is an issue for me is that my primary backups are synchronised copies that I preview manually. And every day Thunderbird causes hundreds of out-of-sync situations that I should not have to deal with.

I notice that nsi is now Unicode. It seems that this breaks portable GPG/Enigmail.
It does not work anymore for me.

Also, is it possible to include my previous suggestion?
Here it is:
It seems there is a bug with enigmail.
I have a path for portable TB like: D:\nxxxxx\....

Dear TB users

I'm needing to get GPG to work for my current ThunderbirdPortable 3.0.6 installation, on Windows XP SP2.

The first option I went with was trying to install Enigma enigmail-1.1.2-tb-win(2).xpi as an Add-on, and install gpg4win independently, so to have Enigma just for providing the mail encrypt menu option. However, Enigma installation from the Add-on wizard was not successful.

Anyone else found a bug in PTB 3.1.7 which won't let me open multiple instances of PTB at the same time? And yes, I have set "AllowMultipleInstances=true" in Thunderbird.ini and this was never a problem with version 3.1.6, from which I upgraded today.
(and please don't question why I want to open multiple instances, this is how I set up my mail system and it has never been a problem before.)

The pt-BR localized version of Thunderbird 3.1.7 seems to be unavailable for download. Broken link? Not yet uploaded?
Many thanks

I want my Thunderbird Portable 3.1.6 to be a default mail client in Windows 7. The main problem why I can not do this is that there is no Thunderbird Portable in default programs list in Windows 7. There is Thunderbird in the list but it is not portable one. The same story was when I wanted to make my Firefox Portable browser as a default browser. This helped me https://sites.google.com/site/firefoxuniversal/brauzer-po-umolcaniu (written in russian, but there are pictures that can help you to understand).
If someone finds the solution, please write it here. Thank you.

Hey,

Any chance we could get a Thunderbird 3.3 (Miramar Alpha 1) Portable Build ?

Thanks,

Will

I have a folder that is 188 MB. When I open Thunderbird, it rebuilds that msf file it tells me that I only have 27 messages in the folder. I know that there are a lot more than that.

I have tried deleting the msf file and restoring it from a backup. The msf for the backup file rebuilds with only 27 messages as well.

Is there a way to get the entire folder back or is it a total loss?

Thanks

Janene

Greetings to the list.

I have become such a fan of the flexibility and versatility of Thunderbird Portable that I am now wondering why one should bother with the standard Thunderbird at all. True, Tbird Portable is slower on a flash drive than the standard installation is on a hard drive, but if one is willing to sacrifice speed, why not go with the portable version? This question may strike experienced users as naive, but I wonder what one really loses by foregoing the standard version.

Craig