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Submitted by poof on September 29, 2008 - 7:29pm

i've been using TB portable off my flashdrive for almost a year, and i love it. all the sudden, now when i try to run it on any computer, it encounters a problem and needs to close.
i have various add-ons and themes like bloodthunder, reminderfox, and thunderbrowse. my internet is being to slow to do a thorough search before posting, i swear. i also realize that i posted a very similar topic 9 months ago, but this is new. i'm not sure what update i'm running... and i'm having trouble downlowading the latest one from here.
thanx for any imput...

mail isn't being deleted off the server though button to keep isn't checked

Submitted by atp on September 29, 2008 - 7:02pm

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.

TBird 2.0.0.17 update--hangs program

Submitted by haqkzza on September 29, 2008 - 12:55pm

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...

mails are in the folder but not appearing on TBP

Submitted by g.beck on September 28, 2008 - 8:49pm

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.

syncing TBP with TB

Submitted by marcolav on September 28, 2008 - 12:44pm

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

Where do I place my user.js file?

Submitted by Huuuze on September 26, 2008 - 4:03pm

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?

Auto-updating w/out local installation

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Submitted by qwertymodo on September 25, 2008 - 11:21pm

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?

Webmail Extension for reading Yahoo! Mail, etc.

Submitted by arizona480 on September 13, 2008 - 5:17pm

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.

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