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Swapping profiles between TB "Portable" and "Portable 2nd Profile"

Submitted by MrArtist on September 10, 2019 - 9:47am

Hi,
I set up a second TB profile using the PortableApps "2nd profile" version alongside my initial portable version and now would like to swap the profiles between the two so that I can eventually remove the 2nd Profile install entirely.

The main reason for setting up the 2nd profile was so I could convert my mailboxes to MailDir from MBox which was less appropriate for using TB via the cloud (OneDrive).

Thunderbird portable.Windows XP

Submitted by JoeGons on August 17, 2019 - 8:46pm

Good Day All.
Thunderbird portable.Windows XP
Using POP3.
I travel between two locations.
I have a Windows 10 64bit desktop at each location.
I have Thunderbird Portable on a Thumb Drive.
At each location I just plug in the Thumb Drive and launch Thunderbird portable.
Has worked well.
I also update the local machine at each location with SyncToy by syncing the “Mail” folder.
Two days ago when I arrived at one of the locations, my Desktop died shortly after boot-up.
DEAD!!

Thunderbird starts with top of its window out of computer screen

Submitted by sukhoi47 on July 28, 2019 - 2:10am

Hi,

After an upgrade 2 or 3 months ago, the Thunderbird portable started to start-up with part of its window out of the computer screen.
After that I upgraded it 1 or 2 times, but the problem persist. Today I upgraded to version 60.8.0 (32-bit) (for Windows), but the problem, again, persist.

You can see how Thunderbird opens:
http://data.neogennium.com/tmp/tb_60.8.portable.win32.bug.jpg

Leftovers in AppData

Submitted by Emka on July 19, 2019 - 12:39am

v60.8: In AppData, I get the folders Local\Thunderbird\updates and Roaming\Thunderbird\Pending Pings. Both empty. I have diabled updates in Thunderbird. No idea what the second one is exacly there for.
I use the following add-ons: Lightning, Manually Sort Folders, ImportExportTools.
Thunderbird Portable is located on a different partition than the system (and AppData). I never had an installed version of Thunderbird on this machine.
Shouldn't the launcher take care of these folders?
Am I doing anything wrong or is that known?

Just a heads up for users of GnuPG

Submitted by Freehunter on July 4, 2019 - 1:33pm

I'm not an expert, just passing this along as a word of caution.

This is probably not a problem for causal users of GnuGP. Temporarily it would be advisable NOT to refresh certificates from the SKS keyserver network. Particularly if your keyring has GnuPG contributors Robert J. Hansen (rjh) or Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) who were victims of a certificate spamming attack.

TBP Not Reading the Sent Folder DAT File

Submitted by AJ113 on May 26, 2019 - 4:00pm

I can see the sent emails in the DAT file if I open it with Notepad, but TB is only reading two of them, it seems to be ignoring the rest.

This happened in unified view. One minute the sent emails were there, the next minute they had all disappeared bar two.

I have five accounts: two POP3 and three IMAP. Is that a potential problem? I see that TBP has not created email folders for the IMAP accounts, yet it is still getting the data from somewhere. How does that happen?

no register.exe for Thunderbird

Submitted by throbert on May 22, 2019 - 3:00pm

So there is a registerfp_1_1.zip that I used to get Firefox Portable into my Set Default Programs list and then I was able to associate it with the protocols properly. So all is fine with Firefox Portable now. So Why is there not a registerfp_1_1.zip for Thunderbird Portable like a registetbp_1_1.zip so I can get Tbird on the list and associated with the protocols properly.

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