Thunderbird Portable

i thought that by default, if the button to keep mail on the server was not checked, then mail would be deleted off the server as it's downloaded into TP. guess not - but now, the mail on the server is taking up too much room and i need TP to download and delete. does anyone have a solution or know the setting i need to have to do this? thanks.

i just updated to portable tbird 2.0.0.17 by using the portable apps launcher, but the program hangs and i have to use windows task manager to stop the program.

on the windows task manager 'processes' tab, there is a 'thunderbird.exe' running using 90+ CPU and anywhere from 60,000 - 300,000K for Mem Usage. at the same time there is also a thunderbirdportable.exe running under 10 CPU and under 10,000K Mem Usage.

i deleted the portable tbird folder and reinstalled--same thing...

i did not have this issue with the 2.0.0.16 portable tbird...

Hi.
I'm just fiddling about with my ThunderbirdPortable and I looked into the files in my "Data\profile\Mail\Local Folders". There are the small .msf files and bigger files wwith the same name. I already learned that the .msf files contain TB's information about the mails in the bigger files. In some of the bigger files I can read old emails I already deleted and I'd like to delete them completely because they need pretty much storage space.

Hello:

Can anyone tell me when one can expect Portable updates?

Thank you in advance,

Alan

I was wrong, it is possible.
Instructions are located at http://maienm.heliohost.org/tb/tbpsync.html
USE AT OWN RISK!!!!
EXIT ALL INSTANCES OF THUNDERBIRD BEFORE USING THIS METHOD
Not thoroughly tested, but it seems to work fine from the tests I ran.
Oh, and this won't sync your extentions, just your mail (and settings?).

Please give feedback.

Hello everybody

I just installed TB on a new laptop and want to keep it in sync with my TBP, however it seems TB is ignoring the data I keep copying over.
no matter what i do , TB always starts from scratch, ignoring the profile with all the mail and data.
I have tried starting TB, then moving all the files into the newly created ******.default folder. I have tried creating a new folder and edited the profiles.ini file accordingly, however the only thing that has been updated are the addons

Any suggestions anybody?

thank you

Marco

I have a user.js file that I place in my non-PortableApp Thunderbird profile directory. When I run the PortableApp version of Thunderbird, I place that same file in:

C:\ThunderbirdPortable\App\thunderbird\defaults\profile

Unfortunately, the changes detailed in my user.js do not appear in the PortableApp ThunderBird. Does this version of Thunderbird not support user.js files?

So, I've searched the forums for information about TBP's auto-update feature and if I understand this right, if you try to update TBP via the auto-update feature, all of the registry values get set to point to the portable version. However, is this really a problem if I don't have a local version installed? Shouldn't the portableapps launcher clean up the registry when it's done anyway?

I can't get any of these to work with my mom's yahoo account...

I've tried Ypops, I know its doing something, because when I use a wrong password it gives me an error, when I use the correct password, no error.

The webmail extension along with the yahoo extension will say it's downloading messages 1-99, but then it keeps timing out. This is on different computers with all firewalls and other obstructions disabled, any ideas? I'm thinking of just paying the $20 for the year to do it normally.

Hi,
I'm trying to burn thunderbird to DVD along with my profile as a backup of my email that I can easily view in the future.

I've included the Thunderbirdportable.ini file as suggested on the help pages, but for some reason, when the RunLocally flag is set to true, my profile disappears and Thunderbird insists on creating a new one.

If this flag is set to false, I get a write error (as expected when running from a DVD) but I can see my folders within my profile, unfortunately thunderbird then hangs when trying to view the contents.
Any ideas?