Thunderbird Portable

I have Thunderbird portable on a usb stick and until yesterday have had no problems. This version travels between my win xp machine at work and a vista machine at home. Yesterday Thunderbird would not start on the XP machine but will run fine on the Vista machine. I tried re-install of the portable app but no change. The error I get is a non-specific error "thunderbird.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I also have Firefox portable on the same usb stick and it works fine. Can anyone help?
Thank you
Adam

After using Thunderbird Portable for nearly a year with few problems, I have just been baffled.

Here's my problem. I thought it'd be pretty easy to copy over the profile data - after all, the official Help page has this to say about the matter:

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Copying Your Local Thunderbird Settings

I would like to recommend some customers/friends the Portable version of Thunderbird, as it is very to make a backup of their data.

However as they are not good enough with english, I am looking for a spanish version.
Do you know of any?

Dear All, last few days, we see in some pc, ThunderBird Portable stucks at startup. after stopping process from tusk manager, it runs ok.
We use to restore pc with ghost image, can it be cause of this problem..?

Please suggest.

Titu
titu2000@gmail.com

I have a huge number of Outlook Express emails on a computer. I want to use Thunderbird portable to "back these up" and then run Thunderbird portable on a flash drive to go between two locations.

so, I guess I want to do two things:

1. Get Thunderbird portable set up. No problem here.

2. Get all the old email from Outlook Express. I am not in this location but I assume I go to tools and import.

Does that sound right?

Thanks

sb

How can I use the -profile option to point to a user profile. In "normal" thunderbird I just write -profile [file path/name].
Can I do this with the portable thunderbird launcher? If so, how? Creating a shortcut includes the drive path, which would ruin the portability, as a different machine might mount the drive on another letter.

Hello,

not sure if this the right place for my question? If not, please point me in the right direction.

I've been using TB Portable as my default client for a few years now. Provided that TB Portable was up and running, Windows recognized it as the default client for "mailto" links and sending documents out of applications such as MS Office.

I want to download Thunderbird Portable to a flash drive. Is there any other software I heed to do prior to this?

Thank you

sb

When I use Thunderbird Portable to read or send email from my college networked computer on campus, I get Server timed out. Is this a problem I can fix local, or is it the college server? How do I correct the problem?

Rob