Thunderbird Portable

Friends

I have a strange problem on two computers when using TB Portable (latest version, 3).

Here are the details:

Vista (one is 32 bit business and one 64 bit business)
Thumbdrive Kingston Datatraveler 1 G and 8 G (behavior same on both)
On a local network with a domain server and a 2 MB broadband subscription
Running inside a Truecrypt file container (2 G and 300 MB)
The computers are both fairly new and powerful.

Enter in Thunderbird without downloading

I would like to execute TB3 without downloading emails or news from my accounts.

How can I do that ?

Best Regards

hi
i downloaded the portable version

and i like it a lot

is there a way to avoid the splashscreen lancher ? (the portable splashscreen)

DisableSplashScreen=true doesn't work

thanks
best regards cheers

(Win7 Home Premium 64-bit)

I can no longer directly access my main address book which is located in abook.mab via Tools/Address Book. The only address book available via Tools/Address Book is Personal Address Book with 32 entries -- but not abook.mab which has 107 KB of addresses. I can see abook.mab using Explorer in the proper directory; and (b) when typing in email addresses the auto-complete function is accessing data from that file.

Thunderbird message filters

How can I examine and revise the good state of thunderbird message filters ?

How can I identify the filters that don't function well ?

Best Regards

I have TB portable 3.1.2 -- after upgrading from the previous version, the links in the Add-Ons menu for Get More Extensions, Get More Themes, MozillaZine, MozDev no longer do anything. I tried downloading and running a fresh copy of the installer just in case the original was damaged but it didn't make any difference.

I'd like to get more add-ons and maybe one or two different themes, but the only way to do that now is via Firefox. Not a big deal, but slightly less convenient.

Does anyone know where can I find the older version, the 3.1.2 seems to not work properly for me, I can't change/delete emails from the imap accounts.
Hopefully a 3.1 version, as I did see the older 2.* versions on sourceforge.

I am getting too many file errors on my USB thumbdrive when accessing T'bird Portable on my Win7 64bit machine.
* I always use "Safely Remove Hardware"
* There are almost always 1 or 2 file errors after dismount.
* File errors are mostly in the Address book, but not always.
* The last one wiped the profile and even restoring the "Data" directory did not get it back, I needed to re-install T'bird Portable.
* USB Drive is Kingston 32 Gig with FAT32 file system.
* Running the same USB on WinXP 32bit works just fine, never any file problems.

Fail downloading emails from gmail

The account don't download all my emails from my gmail accounts.

How can I do ?

Best Regards