Thunderbird Portable

I'm using a copy of TB Portable to make a backup of a large number (12k+) of messages currently residing on my email server. I'm leaving messages on the server for now as a backup, and my "local" copy of TB works fine with it. However, TB portable keeps re-copying messages it's already read from the server (usually about 4k of them at a time!), and it looks like a nasty bug.

I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition (SP-2) on an Athlon 64 X2 (dual core).

I've got T-Bird and Firefox working on my jump drive. For FF, the application Icon was sent to the main window of the jump for easier access. It works. However, doing the same for T-Bird doesn't. An error message comes up saying to reinstall to fix the problem (it doesn't). Is this the way Portable T-Bird is or is there a workaround? I'd appreciate any feedback. Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend. D Jones

Whenever I try to send an email, it shows "enter your password for ***** on smtp.mail.yahoo.com". I promptly fill up my yahoo mail plus password and I check the "use password manager to remember this password".

Then it shows "enter your password for ***** on smtp.mail.yahoo.com again and again even I check the remember password.

Once I press cancel sending.

I change a computer so I copy the whole thunderbird Portable to my new computer.

The Thunderbird Portable works fine on my computer except that it can't record my new Message filters info. When I modify my Message Filters, the thunderbird works immediately and correctly.

But after I shut down and restart the thunderbird portable, the new message filters are gone. I don't know why.

I can't modify the filters config file manually:
ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\ImapMail\11.11.11.11\msgFilterRules.dat

But just can't save the change to this config file in thunderbird.

I feel like a noob, but here goes.

I have a version of TBP that I use on my main desktop. At some point, I must have hit "Update" and now have mess. I know how to transfer a profile from an installed to a portable version (copy profile) but it seems that some of my information is in the portable location, and some at the "Application Data" location. Copying either makes the new portable version act like a new install. Does this make sense? (Be kind.) Is there a way to save this, or should I just use this as an opportunity to migrate to TB 3.0?

EDIT:
In this posting I describe a workaround for the problem: https://portableapps.com/node/20611#comment-127130

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Hello,

after I installed the latest german version of Thunderbird portable 2.0.0.23 the add-ons Enigmail and Lightning are in English language. When I went back to 2.0.0.22 the were in german again. Any ideas?

Best regards!

Hi all,

It seems it's 'portable apps problem week' this week

My TP writes two keys (.... = email adres) to the registry:
-one to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\.....
-one to HKEY_USERS\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\.....

I can remove them from the registry, but every time I ran TP they're there again.
It's a bit annoying, as I cannot run TP on a PC without leaving 'a trail'

Running TP 2.0.0.23, only addon is Lightning 0.9 for my calender.

"Unable to save your message as draft
Error writing temporary file"

I am moving my OUTLOOK mail etc. to TBird on a new desktop with multiple drives and partitions. I will point TBird to store its data on a separate partition and will setup a share on the folders. I think I can make all of that work OK.

After upgrading to 2.0.0.23 Thunderbird portable crashes when trying to reply / forward a message.
OS is Win XP Pro SP3.
Thunderbird is installed on a memory stick with enough free capacity.
Detailled information about the crash might be included in the 45k big file file df6b_appcompat.txt which is mentioned in the error message.
How should I submit the information included in the file?

What is the problem with TB?

Thanx for your help!