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Compatibility problems with Windows Vista

Submitted by fabio_ap541 on December 5, 2007 - 8:17pm

I am having problems to make Thunderbird work with Windows Vista on my Memorex TravelDrive, U3 platform.

Does anyone have this same problem? Could this be a compatibility issue for Thunderbird itself or for the U3 platform (I am not having problems with any other application)

Thanks for any help, assistance or suggestion

Start thunderbird automatically when plugging in usb stick

Submitted by footmechanic on December 5, 2007 - 9:41am

Hi, is there any possibility to let thunderbird start up automatically, when plugging in the devise (usb stick). It would be very handy, because the computer where I download my messages is always in use by other people. If there is an auto start, I wouldnt need to bother them, and they could keep working while I download my messages from the web.

Exporting addreesbook and email from Thunderbird running on a U3 USB memory stick

Submitted by futcher177 on December 5, 2007 - 8:01am

I need some help in knowing how to back up my emails and my address book from Thunderbird 1.5 running on a U3 USB drive

When I have back up the emails and address book I then want to restore them on to a new version of Thunderbird 2 which I intend to load on to my laptop's hard drive

Thanks for the help

Dave

Thunderbird portable love note

Submitted by vyccid on December 4, 2007 - 10:54pm

I had a need to archive email to a CD / DVD and include a mail client to read the contents. I copied the ThunderbirdPortable.ini for running from CD off the support page and added an autorun.inf to make life simple for the user, it works great.

Just pop in the DVD and quite a while later you're reading email. My thanks to all the supporters of this software.

New message notification sound.

Submitted by Anthony A on December 1, 2007 - 8:49pm

I have a sound I like to set for the new message notification in Thunder Bird. In TB options I just set it to use the sound. On my normal install this is no problem. On portable TB I set the path to the file but the drive letter will change depending on then machine I am on. So if I set the path as F:/Documents/gmail.wav it doesn't work if I am on a machine that designates my thumb drives as another letter other than F. Is there a way around this?

Putting A Christmas Present Together

Submitted by Koliedrus on December 1, 2007 - 8:39pm

Now that I'm becoming an old fart, I can honestly say that I'm damned impressed with what you kids have put together. You can't see the change from my perspective so you'll have to trust me; you're doing a great job.

I've had nothing but good experiences with the suite until I recently upgraded Thunderbird.

Now, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't jump on me to RTFM lest I jump back and all hell breaks loose. No one wants that.

The thing is, everything was going just fine with PortaBird until I recently upgraded.

Not really a bug, but still a bit annoying (2.0.0.9)

Submitted by betaman on December 1, 2007 - 8:00am

I set the portable thunderbird as my default email client. When I click on an email link on a web page (Firefox 2.0.0.10), Thunderbird launches as expected, but it also activates the new account setup wizard, which closes Thunderbird unless I go ahead with creating a new account.

If Thunderbird is already launched before I click on an email link, then I don't get this problem.

Transferring Thunderbird Profile to Thunderbird Portable

Submitted by aoniumo on November 30, 2007 - 4:34pm

The guide on this link in the support section does not work:
https://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#local_profile

I have two profiles in regular thunderbird and they both have the names
XPC.mfl
XUL.mfl

They are in separate folders. When I copy the contents of one .default folder into the profile folder in Thunderbird Portable and then open THunderbird portable program, there is no profile there.

How do I resolve this? Thank you,

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