Thunderbird Portable

I just happened to be using Search to find all the biggest files on the C: drive (leave filename blank, make size over 30000), when I came upon something that surprised the heck outta me:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\1****rar.default\Mail\Local Folders

This file contained ALL my old OE mail, including my huge Sent folder which goes back to 2004.

The filedate of 10/08 agrees, as I remember it, with downloading Thunderbird Portable, installing it to a flashdrive, and importing the WAB & all old mail to the flashdrive.

I would like know the way I can suppress the splash screen when I enter in Thunderbird

Thank very much

I recently setup email certificates for both my Yahoo! and Gmail accounts. On my home laptop, encrypting and decrypting emails worked fine. When I imported my certificates onto my USB drive that contained my portable version of Thunderbird, I was unable to decrypt messages. After verifying my Account settings and Certificates were correct I decided to copy the entire ThunderbirdPortable directory to my hard drive at work and everything started working again. I could encrypt/decrypt successfully, but only from the copy on the hard drive.

For some reason when I add or delete contacts from my address book the changes don't stay after I close and reopen thunderbird.

Any one have a clue what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

If Thunderbird Portable is running, sometimes a new email is announced, but the marked email box or any other contains no new email. The marked email box is always the last box above local folder.
What to do?

Thanks,
khm

Is it possible to do this?

I've tried modifying my user.js to force it (I've done somilar in the past on my linux boxes)by adding the lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");

but this doesn't work

Any suggestions?

I'm using thunderbird 2.0.0.19 portable on my windows xp sp3. In order to archive I've copied my mail-file from 2008. I've changed the name of the copy into "2009" and cleaned up 90% of the old mails. Now I use the "2009"-file for the next year. If I have to check an old mail, i open the old "2008"-file. First it works - like in 2007, too. But after 4 hours (and compressing all sub-files) i can only read my mails from 2008 created until september. The mails from autumn > new year are invisible.

Hi Guys,

Thunderbird (TBP) did an automatic upgrade from v2.0.0.17 to v2.0.0.18 and now it does not start. The splash screen starts and then nothing else seems to happen.

When I tried re-installing TBP it mentioned that there is still an active/open version of TBP and thus cannot perform the install.

I'm planning to restart the pc so I can re-install but presume my problems are larger than a simple re-install.

Any ideas on where to start searching? I.e. can it be a corrupt prefs.js or index (msf) files?

Thanks
Paul

I have no idea what can cause this, but when I try compact folders when TB is sticked to an XP, it takes ages! Kind of 20 minutes for example.

Tha same job is done on an very slow laptop with w2k in seconds, on w98 similar even the usb port there is just 1.1 and all otherwise slow due to lack of ram.

Why does it take so long on the XP?

Hi,
trying to switch from good old Outlook to Thunderbird Portable worked with just a few frictions. The import of quite a large amount of mails was possible only with tricks. So yesterday - all seemed to be fine. I was happy to find all my mails in TBP, I had the feeling to have mastered all the character encoding settings. TBP even shows Chinese characters in the subject line (that Outlook doesn't do).

Until today:
All the Chinese characters in my mails are gone and substituted by question marks.
Per-ma-nent-ly, as it seems.