Thunderbird Portable

I bought a new USB drive (Verbatim Store 'n' Go 8GB) and copied my Thunderbird Portable folder onto it. But the program usually won't load first time, coming up with an error message. Now, if I keep trying it will eventually load, but not the next time. If I copy the folder to an old USB drive it works first time. If I copy the folder to my desktop - it works first time. If I copy it to the desktop of another computer - it works. So presumably this has to do with the USB drive, but can anyone suggest where I can look to find out how to fix it, please?

I had a corrupted PTB database. I restored all but my inbox (I tried copying the inbox to the local folders directory but was blank). Now I want to try and download emails from gmail between certain dates. How do I do this? is it a Gmail functionality? or PTB?

PS What's the best way of backing up your profile?

I am using an old laptop running W2K. My PT mail headers are unreadable as they are over the top of each other. The problem seems to disppaer is I click each one but not if i mark all as read. Any ideas?

I am not quite sure if this is portable issue only, but following I realized:

when I delete let say all messages from the sent folder, all from the inbox etc from the TB GUI, then they do not appear in the TB any more, but the space on the disk (stick) is not freed by that. Checking the folders on the stick, it seems that for every folder in the TB there are somehow two files but nothing is deleted or the files do not go any smaller when items are deleted from the GUI.

I am at a Fed EX store using a 25 cents a minute computer. I put in the U3 and all the programs work here except Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Firefox browser. Nothing happens except this message comes up in a window with a big red circle and a white "X" and the top of the window says, "U3 Launch Pad." The message is: ""An error has occurred while trying to start the selected program" I uninstalled and re-downloaded the programs, but get the same message. Other email programs work like: "Reach-a-Mail" (a U3 program), but I want Thunderbird!

Hi all,

This is my first post here. However, I'v been a big fan of portable apps offerred here. They just rocks! Keep up the good works John T. Haller and friends.

I just bought a NAS (network attached storage). It's an external storage connected directly to the router. It just looks like another pc on my home network. So... my strategy is to gradually move whatever data i have on every pc so i can freely work on whatever pc and get pretty much the same capabilities. I can just map the new N: network drive to my NAS or use UNC naming (\\hostname\directoy) to use the nas storage.

Hi all,

hi,
I've made some changes to ThunderbirdPortable.nsi to get TB-Tray(http://sniperbeamer.de/tbtray) to work.
Complete package containing TB-Tray, modified source and compiled exe is available at [link removed by moderator JTH. Use of the Mozilla trademarks by PortableApps.com is under a license agreement that does not extend to 3rd parties. While you're free to modify the launcher under the GPL, you can't use the Thunderbird name or logo in connection with it, sorry.]

bugfix

Hello,

I've been trying to download & install Thunderbird Portable onto a USB drive. But ".exe" doesn't seem to arrive with the download. On one attempt the program itself opened and we went through the account set up; it worked on the original computer but not when the USB was plugged into another computer - "exe. not found" was the reason. Second attempt: it wouldn't start up at all because no .exe found.

The download & install processes were a bit different from the simple instructions on the Thunderbird Portable page, by the way - nothing to double click.

I wish to import all extensions, settings, addresses, etc from local TB2009 to TBPortableapps. I think I know how to do this, but I prefer asking to be sure. I went to this page

https://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#local_profile

It says “Just copy all of those files to the Data\profile directory within Thunderbird Portable.”

My question is this.

First there are 2 yellow folders in Profile folder of my local TB. One says “default” and the other says “default user”. Which do you recommend I use? Or do I import both?

My second question.