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Profiles and some messages vanishing

Submitted by RP60438 on March 19, 2007 - 3:11pm

I am a newcomer to thunderbird-portable and am very excited to get it working. I downloaded version 2.0 and it worked awesome until i moved my drive. I had it installed on a 60gb usb portable hard drive. I got it all setup and then I unplugged it from my desktop and plugged it into my lappop. I opened up the program and it was fine. However, when I removed it from my laptop and returned it to my desktop, all the email folders were gone as well as the address book. I have lightning installed as well, but all of its info was still intact.

Thunderbird opens showing Inbox and all recent titles

Submitted by fergus on March 15, 2007 - 9:22am

I don't like the way TB opens showing my Inbox and the titles, if not the content, of all recent comms. Yes, the password is required to read stuff, but all the same an inquisitive stranger can easily see what I've been talking about, and with whom (if not what we said). How can TB be configured to be less revealing?
Thanks.
Fergus

Thunderbird redownloads already downloaded messages

Submitted by pompoman on March 13, 2007 - 10:37pm

Hello everybody,

I have been (and am still!) a happy Thunderbird portable user for some time. But occasionally, Thunderbird re-downloads messages that have already been downloaded. In fact, I leave the messages on the server for security. And this happens when I copy my Portable Thunderbird folder from my PC (laptop) to the desktop at work. Therefore, I have to manually delete these messages, as they are not all duplicates (sometimes I deleted them in the client but not on the server), and it is a real pain...

lost address book contents

Submitted by swerve101 on March 13, 2007 - 7:00pm

Had a problem with THP and had to reinstall the program into portable apps. Initially I thought I lost all my settings and folders but found the old folders and emails and just needed to be copied to the proper diretory folder. Now I can't find my address book contents. Anyone know what file this is in? Maybe I still have it and can copy it to the proper directory. Any instruction on this would be very helpful as many of the addresses are business contacts and are not easily replaced.

Junk MAil Control question

Submitted by emao on March 12, 2007 - 1:13pm

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had this minor issue with Portable TB. In the Junk Mail Controls setting I have selected "Automatically delete Junk Mail messages older than 1 day from this folder", but the Junk mail never gets deleted. Perhaps I am overlooking something??
Also, if I select Tools ---> Run Junk mail controls on this folder, nothing happens. Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

Emao

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