Thunderbird Portable

Hi John.

I don’t know whether this is actually a bug or not. Even more so I don’t know if it is specific to Portable Thunderbird or not.

Since upgrading to 1.5.0.5. I had a lot of trouble getting it to work properly. I could send and receive mail but when I tried to open it I just got an “alert” message saying that the path I was actually using was not available. I could follow the path and it was indeed the one I was using.

After struggling with it for quite some time I have eventually discovered what the problem was. It’s a strange one ! :o)

On my flash drive I sometimes put “##” at the end of folder names so I can easily find them amongst a long list. I have always had ## at the end of my Portable Thunderbird folder as I regularly check it.

I was wondering if there was a way to use Thunderbird portable on my jumpdrive on any computer and not having my local setting stored on my computer, but instead on my jump drive.

After using Portable Tbird for several weeks, I decided to install the full Tbird into my harddisk permanently. The question is: how do I migrate all my settings and emails from Portable Tbird to my full Tbird?

is there a way to automatically sync the addresss books of my desktop copy of thunderbird and the portable one?

Copied a copy of portable Thunderbird onto a 2GB USB Flash stick .. and then copied my profiles from my desktop installed version of (full) Thunderbird ...

Getting email from my accounts is working great ...

I also have several RSS/XML feeds that are working fine on the desktop version of Thunderbird ... BUT ... the PTB reports(in the bottom status message area) "Http;//blah blah blah.com/rss.php is not a valid RSS feed" ...

Several feeds are .php/RSS/XML files ... and ARE working OK on the desktop but not on PTB ...

Any ideas?

GaryW

I've just started using Portable Thunderbird and things are going fairly well.

It's a little slower than I'd like, but that could be just the old drive I'm using for the time being.

One thing that isn't working is the notification that Thunderbird puts next to folders that have new items within. In 'Desktop Thunderbird' the little satellite dish is highlighted with an orange star whenever there are new unread items within a folder. In Pocket Tbird, the change only happens once I click on a folder. That is, I get the 'highlighted' state, but only after clicking the folder, which otherwise looks like all the others.

As I only have a 2GB stick, and intend using portable app.s to do most of my sensitive work from hereon in, I am a little obsessive about space. Running a check for duplicate files (identical CRCs), I found around 14MB of them on my stick already. Here's a shot listing some of the biggest:
http://maxqnzs.com/screenshots/duplicates.jpg

Is there a safe way to remove some of these, to maximise space on my stick?

I have TB set to download headers only and I pick the messages I want to view manually.

Once they've been downloaded, it there a way to keep the mail on the server but remove the body from TB? This would be handy to keep our mailbox size reigned in on a limited size flash drive. It also speeds up the encryption process before I disconnect my media...

I have installed thunderbird portable and I have filled in the boxs to send/recieve e-mail. I recieve the error message "Failed to connect to sever popmail.yahoo.co.uk", could any one advise me what to do. Many Thanks

I have been having the same problem as this guy. So I downloaded the ini, made sure the two settings were false and saved it in the same dir as PortableThunderbird.exe. I still get no accounts showing in PT. So I deleted the LocalFolders-1 directory PT has created and tried again, still with the ini in the folder. Still no boxes.

Suggestions?