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When you empty trash do the deleted emails go to the trash bin of the hard drive or somewhere on the USB drive?
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When you empty trash do the deleted emails go to the trash bin of the hard drive or somewhere on the USB drive?
Does anyone have any suggestions for speeding up Thunderbird Portable when running off of a USB flash drive? Right now, it takes about 3 seconds to delete an email message which is far too slow. An email message should take no time to delete. I'm running Thunderbird Portable on a year old Sony Vaio laptop which is equiped with XP Pro and USB 2.0 ports. My flash drive is also USB 2.0.
Richard
Is there ANY reason not to run T-Bird Portable as the only email program my Hard Drive.
The benefit of this is that it would be simple to automate email and settings backup without using the !!$#^$rappy!!! Moz BackUp utility.
Alternately, does anyone have a better automated backup procedure to suggest?
Thanks
k
hi i have a kingston 256mb flash drive which i have installed thunderbird to, and it downloads mail with no problem, but when trying to view the mail all i get is a list of servers that it has gone through to get to me(well my address) any ideas on how to fix this or any reason for y it would happen??? and is there anyway to save the 30 odd emails that have downloaded in this way???
cheers
adam
The download verbiage on the portable Thunderbird say it will manage your email on your portable drive and "also" your hard drive. Does portable Thunderbird create a mirror directory on your hard drive with your email? If so, is there anyway to avoid this?
Thanks.
Feature Request Portable Thunderbird for PDA (Windows Mobile and PalmOS)
- Read, Write, Save and Send Email form Portable Thunderbird from
Portable Storage (SD-, CF-Card, USB Drive)
- Use of Portable Thunderbird address book
- Send Email in case Internet connection is available
- Save Email in Draft Folder in case no Internet connection is available
Hi @ all,
I'm new in this forum and want to ask all if someone have an idea how I can administrate different eMail accounts with Thunderbird Portable.
Using my normal thunderbird I have the possibility to use the profilmanager.
Is someone who can help me?
Greetings from Germany
Michael
Where does Thunderbird save the passwords to access POP3 accounts? On the flash drive or desktop pc it is using?
Does it leave any trace of the messages on the PC (Temp folder, registry)?
I use TB portable. Recently, it seems that if I sent an emal from a FireFox link, the Compose window stays open and shows 100% sent. The message is in the Sent folder, but the Compose window stays active. If I send another email directly from TB, it seems to "flush" it through.
I've been experimenting with a suite of Open Source, Portable Apps on a flashdrive. Sometimes I move them to a PC, run them, then move them back. Then maybe to another PC. This open Compose window has happened rather recently. I can't link it to any specific changes.
Thanks, I've used these forums alot to get me going on this.
Hallo All,
Is there any reason why PTB does not pick up Outlook's address book?
Outlook is set to make itself the default email client, but PTB does not detect any other email clients.
When I export my contacts to a csv file, PTB does not seem to pick up the EOL character so my contacts flow into each other.
Thanks
Paul