Thunderbird Portable

My wife, Anne, and I both use Thunderbird Portable (running from separate USB sticks on the same machine) for our email. But we can't have two instances of TB running at the same time so if one of us wants to check our email we have to close the other person's instance of TB first.

I understand that using the "standard" version of TB, multiple instances are possible by adding a command line parameter but of course the PortableApps menu doesn't allow for these.

Is there any way to make it possible to run multiple instances of TB Portable?

Regards

Nick

I just found a bug in the latest Thunderbird release. It leaves behind a folder called "Thunderbird" in %APPDATA% with the usual Mozilla Crash Reports folder in it including a file with the install date.

Firefox and Seamonkey handle the folder correctly (=backup and restore), it seems that this functionality has been forgotten in the Thunderbird Launcher.

Tested on Win XP SP3 limited account.

Can anyone confirm this?

EDIT: This has been fixed.

I have portable thunderbird and firefox installed. When I click on a link in an email, it opens in firefox, but that instance of firefox does not use my normal settings (customized toolbar, history settings, ad-block, etc.)

Is there a way to fix that?

Hi all,

With TB 3.01 coming out (thanks!!), I tried again to upgrade, and with some tips posted on the forum I got TB 3.01 to work

I also installed the latest (beta) Lightning addon, and that works just fine too.
But I was under the impression that with the new 'Birthday/Age' fields in the Address Book, these would show up in Lightning automagically as well....

As the plugin I used to use (Birthday Reminder) doesn't work for 3.01, I'm looking for a way to add the Birthdays into Lightning.

I had no problem in this respect before!
Why now?
Why do not I get any reply?

OS Windows 7 Home Premium Dutch
ThunderbirdPortable 2.0.0.23.

All of a sudden I cannot get my mailboxes on screen anymore.
At start up I only get the screen about a.o accounts and advanced features.

At the same time I cannot get images in my mail, nor see the option whether I want to show them or not.

I hope you do understand what I mean.

I am axious to read the solution.

I upgraded my PTB from 2.0.0.23 to the new 3.1 today - actually I upgraded my 3 different instances of PTB, each with 4 mail accounts, to the new 3.1 and with 2 of the 3 it went like a breeze - like it always does!! - but with one of my instances the upgrade runs without problems, all my mails and address books are present, my add-ons upgrades without problems BUT I am stuck with three instances of "Local Folders". Usually I have only one and I don't use it.

Hello all
I have been using Portable apps (and thunderbird apps) for a while now. No problem so far. but today, major issue :
I unplugged my USB key safely, then plugged it again and launched Thunderbird. At first it was ok but all my mails folder had dissapeared. So I close/open again only to get this error message :
"Mozilla Thunderbird appears to be running from a location that is read only" and so on. So I can't access Thunderbird anymore and I don't have my mails, adress book and Agenda.

hello,

what is the best way to update my portable thudnerbird 3 to the latest version ?

auto update function ?

or

download the latest .zip file and extract it to my local tb portable folder ?

thanks

Just a heads-up. I've successfully upgraded my PortableApps version using Help -> Check for Updates.

Regards

Nick

I changed from TB 2 to TB 3.
Now the account folders i see 8 times.
when i delete one, all 8 will be deleted.
i used different ways. copy the profiles or install TB 3 in TB 2. Both its the same result. please help