Thunderbird Portable

First I want to describe my circumstances. I use portable Thunderbird on some Windows Computers and even at home on my Ubuntu Linux mashine (using only the profils, works fine).
Everything workes perfect (means: thanks for all that nice portable programs!).
Now I have a T-Mobile MDA (PDA with Windows Mobile). I want to synchronise it with the data in my portable thunderbird profile.
I have tried using activesync with birdiesync. The problem is, that you cant define the right paths for the syncronisation with the portable app.
Maybe someone knows a different way to syncronise a PDA with portable thunderbird, or had success on trying to pair the devices with birdiesync. (with the normal Thunderbird everthing works fine!)

I run portable Thunderbird from an iPodShuffle on OSX. The application hangs everytime the computer wakes up from sleep, regardless on which Mac I try it on. Is there a way around this?

thanks in advance

can i use Portable Thunderbird data into standard Thunderbird ?
It's so important to me cuz i'm using Linux OS

This topic must have been covered before...
Is there any reason why Portable Thunderbird should not be used as the desktop mail app? I support a social service agency where people move around a lot, and it would be a lot easier to just move one folder to have their mail follow them.
Is there something that regular T-bird does that Portable T-bird cannot do?

How do I go about upgrading from 1.502 to 1.504 Thunderbird I have got Thunderbird installed on my USB only recently and it is already asking to upgrade to 1.504 but portable Apps has only 1.502 available.

Any help for a newby?

Hello All,

I have a question regarding the Data directories of the PortableApps applications... I know that keeping the path names for everything relative is the major bonus with these applications, however, I have a situation where I would like to move the data directory to an absolute path. Is this possible?

My reasoning is this...

I have a usb key which I carry everywhere with PortableFirefox and PortableThunderbird, also I have an encrypted file which mounts as a drive when decrypted (using TrueCrypt software, which is free open-source and excellent). This file decrpyts always to the same drive letter (x:) and holds personal information. At present I can move emails to the by changing the 'local directory' in account settings but still there are address books and more concerningly openPGP secret keys within the data directory of the unencrypted section of the usb drive. The same occurs with PortableFirefox where Internet History, passwords and cookies all remain accesible without decrypting.

hope the answer to this is not to technical or convoluted;

when I set in the prefrences to make portable thunderbird the default email client, it makes a reference in the startup menu (XP) but when clicked it wants to setup from scratch. How do I make it the default client on the desktop (pointing to the portable setup (if you follow ).

My hope was to be able to have the portable setup as the default mail browser on the desktop and just copy the folder to a USB pen when I want it to be portable, is that possible or will I have to run syncs with a default & portable install (I geuss thats what some posts refer to)

In the "Copying your local TB settings" instructions, it says to look for:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.???\

However, on my desktop I don't see any folder called "Application Data" at all, and I've run a search of the entire hard drive. Ditto for the folders MAIL and IMAPMAIL and the pref.js and abook.mab files.

Any ideas? My desktop's Thunderbird works just fine...so I'm at a loss.

On a potentially unrelated note, I noticed that Memorex 1GB USB flash key is specifically marked as "USB 2.0" and I'm pretty sure I'm plugged into USB 2.0 ports, but damned if it doesn't take a looooong time to copy only 30MB to the key. Any ideas what it might be? How does one make sure that one's ports (not the device, the ports) are really USB 2.0 and not USB 1.1?

Hi,
I have also problems with thunderbird 1.5.0.2 portable. I get the message that the registry file cannot be imported. Error by access to the registry. The message file target is: G:\PortasbleThunderbird\Data\registry\thunderbird_portable.reg

What is wrong? Does somebody have an idea?

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

for some strange reasons my Portable TB doesn't start any more. All I get is this error message (see picture: http://www.fontenvironment.com/error.gif)

The text in the error message is not click-able - I can't copy&paste it

Any help appreciated!

Samuel

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