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Thunderbird Portable

Exporting

Submitted by jkp042009 on January 24, 2014 - 3:57pm

I have Thunderbird Portable on a thumb drive and have it the way i want it. I am wanting to move it from just an executable into the portable apps launcher on another usb drive and keep all the same settings, folders, etc. is there a way to export those from one portable tbird to the other?

Multi-Folders and Multi-MSF files

Submitted by MobileUser on December 17, 2013 - 6:01pm

I installed TB and created an IAMP account in TB yesterday.
I noticed that there are multi-folders in the directory:
E:\...\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\ImapMail\
Here is the folder names:
imap.mail.yahoo.com
imap.mail.yahoo-1.com
imap.mail.yahoo-2.com
imap.mail.yahoo-3.com
imap.mail.yahoo-4.com
imap.mail.yahoo-5.com
imap.mail.yahoo-6.com
imap.mail.yahoo-6.com.sbd

Do I have to keep all these folders?

I also noticed that every time I turn on TB, TB creates a new "INBOX-X.msf" file (where "-X" is a number) in the "imap.mail.yahoo-6.com" folder.

Thunderbird Portable - Directory gone?

Submitted by vpnavy on December 13, 2013 - 12:41pm

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced the total deletion of their Thunderbird directory. This is the second time in the past month. Fortunately, I do a weekly backup and just copy the directory back over to my USB drive. I have everything running off my USB drive (carry between two systems) and the only problem I have is with Thunderbird Portable. Any suggestions?

* 24.2.0 - however, the problem happened with the prior version. Everyday I use Thunderbird - I always check for updates.

* Mail Account: POP

* AntiVirus/FireWall: Bitdefender Total Security

All emails, folders and filters...LOST!

Submitted by wilko007 on December 2, 2013 - 10:04am

Hi,

I've updated to 24.1.1 on Windows 7 and now when i start Tbird everything has gone. It's as if Thunderbird doesn't know where to look for the account info and folders..etc.

This may well be the case, but i don't know how to tell it where to look, as there are loads of folders in the profile directory and i have no idea which are which or how to find my email accounts info.

I have multiple accounts i need to access daily, so I am in the hands of you guys as I am right in the poo now!

Location of settings for Thunderbird

Submitted by ZuS on November 16, 2013 - 3:39pm

Hi guys,

I've managed to set up my PortableThunderbird(24.1.0)+Enigmail(newest)+TorBirdy(newest) on two computers now, which required some troubleshooting, despite the fact that the program itself is on a portable HDD. I have a few questions:

1) The keyring is apparently not saved on the portable device, but somewhere on the machine they were created on. Can I make Thunderbird store the keyring and use it on the portable device?

Writing to folder failed.

Submitted by Nunhead_man on November 13, 2013 - 5:48am

I'm getting this error under Windows 7 Pro 64 bit using v24.1.0 ......

"The messages could not be filtered to folder 'Southwark_freecycle.org' because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."

I've checked the properties and it was set to "read only" so changed that and its changed back - is this a new Windoze "feature"?

Local Directory Path

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Submitted by AdrianK_IT on November 8, 2013 - 11:19am

[v24.1.0] I am unable to make any changes to any account's server settings, because when I try to OK them, I get a message similar to the following:

The Local Directory path "N:\apps\7.Admin\Thunderbird\Data\profile\accounts\{account}" is not suitable for message storage. Please choose another directory.

I don't know when this issue started, since I haven't tried to make changes for months. Needless to say, all the accounts whose messages are stored in their 'not suitable' {account} folder work perfectly.

What is wrong with the path (now)? Why has in become 'not suitable'?

Copying my computer's entire TB profile into TB portable

Submitted by jbarrington on November 1, 2013 - 2:51pm

I'm using the full version of Thunderbird (v.24.1) on my computer, and the portable version on my USB drive. I'm using Win7 64 bit on my computer.

I've spent a day trying to copy my six email accounts, along with my contacts, current email and their folders, personal settings, and pluggins from my computer and into my portable version. I saw further down under the download link some brief instructions on how to do this within the FAQ area, but either I'm doing it incorrectly, the instructions are old, or the portable version doesn't have a way to utilize all of my transferred items.

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