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TB Portable 'lost contact'

Submitted by HerbEppel on February 4, 2009 - 8:05am

My wife uses TB Portable, and it used to work very well.

However, suddenly it appears to have lost contact with her profile, i.e. on startup TB comes up with the account setup wizard and then just an empty TB window when I cancel the wizard.

Any suggestions for how to reconnect the profile?

Thank you.

IMPORT local profile + mail settings into TBP does not work as it should - URGENT

Submitted by newpa-user on February 3, 2009 - 9:05pm

Hi!

I am new to portableapps, having just stumbled upon it a couple of days ago. I wanted to be sure switching to TBP would go without any problems. It seemed it would - or so I thought.
Know before you say anything I've backed up my local TB a hundred times and am therefore familiar with the general process. Still, this time is different.
I was using version 2.x before, yet not the latest version of TB, and now I am using the latest TBP version.
I've got a backup of all previous Application data and of my former install folder.

Firm and cypher of messages

Submitted by Esgrimidor on January 30, 2009 - 4:25pm

"Firma y cifrado de mensajes email

Qué lista de programas pueden usarse en combinación con Thunderbird (portable) para firmar y cifrar en el envío de correos electrónicos ?

Gracias

El cifrado me gustaría que fuera durante el envío y que el destinatario no tenga que necesitar contraseñas o por el estilo. No se si existe algo así. "

I would like to know the list of programs compatible with Portable Thunderbird for encrypting messages during sending emails.

And firm too.

Thanks
Excuse my language. I'm from Canary Islands

locale switcher addon not working

Submitted by macariooo on January 30, 2009 - 2:08pm

Hi folks! My english is not very good, so I hope you can understand me.

I want to run Thunderbird Portable 2.0.0.9 from a CD, so I have put the "ThunderbirdPortable.ini" file that I have found here (https://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#cd) in E:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable directory.

Now, the locale-switcher is not working properly and the programm is running in english.

newsblog.jar file spoiling installation on USB

Submitted by meet6669 on January 29, 2009 - 1:08pm

I have been trying without success to install the portable version of Thunderbird on to my Kingston 4GB Data traveler USB drive and when it comes to the newsblog.jar file, this weird message that says the file cannot be written pops up and cancels the whole process. I would really appreciate any help.

Jimmy

Info on ThunderbirdPortable.ini should be easier to find on web page and help files

Submitted by piotr.dobrogost on January 28, 2009 - 3:21pm

Hi

I'd like to say that ThunderbirdPortable.ini is not only helpful when running TBP from read-only memory. Because of this it deserves much better place in help than it currently has.

Placing any data (mail and profile data in this case) in a subfolder of program folder is just not right. Especially when there is already Documents folder created by default when installing PortableMenu... But to move mail to its proper location (underneath Documents folder) one has to get know ThunderbirdPortable.ini...

gmail timeout

Submitted by galwayguy on January 28, 2009 - 12:09pm

I have Gmail set up correctly with pop enabled, every time I try to download
emails it get 2 or 3 emails and then stops till it times out. If I close it and open it again it will download another 2 emails and again time out.
My settings are correct as I have tried them with a couple of other portable email clients and they downloaded no problem.

Free/opensource Thunderbird Windows Mobile sync solutions?

Submitted by PollieXmas on January 27, 2009 - 10:02am

Hi Guys,

I'm again in a position where I'm unable to sync my calendar and contacts between my desktop and windows mobile phone and was hoping that someone here has a slick solution that would work for someone that's tired of fiddling to get things working...

I used to use active sync to keep my phone in sync with Outlook and would then occasionally export my contacts manually and tried to stop using calendar, but that was obviously not the best solution.

Fix for TB not opening from platform

Submitted by Miles on January 23, 2009 - 7:49pm

On your TB page it is said:

Sometimes, certain profiles will cause the launcher to fail or hang. In that case, start from scratch and try just copying your mailstores (Mail and ImapMail directories) as well as your prefs.js and abook.mab files. unquote

Installed and twice tried to open TB from the portable platform and it wouldn't go. Feared I would have to delete all and start over. However, quickly discovered that it would start if clicked on the TBPortable.exe. And thereafter it continues to start using the platform.
Miles

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