Thunderbird Portable

Hello All,

I have a question regarding the Data directories of the PortableApps applications... I know that keeping the path names for everything relative is the major bonus with these applications, however, I have a situation where I would like to move the data directory to an absolute path. Is this possible?

My reasoning is this...

I have a usb key which I carry everywhere with PortableFirefox and PortableThunderbird, also I have an encrypted file which mounts as a drive when decrypted (using TrueCrypt software, which is free open-source and excellent). This file decrpyts always to the same drive letter (x:) and holds personal information. At present I can move emails to the by changing the 'local directory' in account settings but still there are address books and more concerningly openPGP secret keys within the data directory of the unencrypted section of the usb drive. The same occurs with PortableFirefox where Internet History, passwords and cookies all remain accesible without decrypting.

hope the answer to this is not to technical or convoluted;

when I set in the prefrences to make portable thunderbird the default email client, it makes a reference in the startup menu (XP) but when clicked it wants to setup from scratch. How do I make it the default client on the desktop (pointing to the portable setup (if you follow ).

My hope was to be able to have the portable setup as the default mail browser on the desktop and just copy the folder to a USB pen when I want it to be portable, is that possible or will I have to run syncs with a default & portable install (I geuss thats what some posts refer to)

In the "Copying your local TB settings" instructions, it says to look for:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.???\

However, on my desktop I don't see any folder called "Application Data" at all, and I've run a search of the entire hard drive. Ditto for the folders MAIL and IMAPMAIL and the pref.js and abook.mab files.

Any ideas? My desktop's Thunderbird works just fine...so I'm at a loss.

On a potentially unrelated note, I noticed that Memorex 1GB USB flash key is specifically marked as "USB 2.0" and I'm pretty sure I'm plugged into USB 2.0 ports, but damned if it doesn't take a looooong time to copy only 30MB to the key. Any ideas what it might be? How does one make sure that one's ports (not the device, the ports) are really USB 2.0 and not USB 1.1?

Hi,
I have also problems with thunderbird 1.5.0.2 portable. I get the message that the registry file cannot be imported. Error by access to the registry. The message file target is: G:\PortasbleThunderbird\Data\registry\thunderbird_portable.reg

What is wrong? Does somebody have an idea?

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

for some strange reasons my Portable TB doesn't start any more. All I get is this error message (see picture: http://www.fontenvironment.com/error.gif)

The text in the error message is not click-able - I can't copy&paste it

Any help appreciated!

Samuel

P.S.

When I hit the 'Attach' button to make attachemnet to email, Portable Thunderbird closes....? any ideas why? It has only just started to happen and I have been using PT for some time.

I have a problem with PortableThunderbird + Gpg: There is an Enigmail initialization error that I can't get around.

Here are the steps that I took:

- Downloaded PortableThunderbird + Gpg 1.5.0.2 in zip format.
- Extracted contents to hard drive
- Executed PortableThunderbird.exe
- Gpg prompted for a new account creation. I tried two different things: I cancelled out or I created a new account. Either way, the next steps (and result) are still the same
- Clicked on OpenPGP -> KeyManagement
- Obtained the following error: "Enigmail: Error in initializing Enigmail Service".

All gpg/pgp functions are unusable, most are greyed out and clicking on those that are not result in the same error above.

I hate to make such a fool of myself, but I have to ask this question; Can I run Portable Thunderbird on my main machine - ie; not off a USB, but off the PC? In fact, can I run Abi the same way?

Please do not flame me to death, I just have to ask these things sometimes.

Hi,

I'm taking the plunge into portable Thunderbird and I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep it in sync with my main computer.

So far I've copied the entire profile folder, which seems to be working fine, but it's a bit much for everyday sync.

For everyday sync I'd like to just copy changes in emails, address book, and anything I may have done as far as sorting into folders, labels, etc. If I copy the mail/imapmail folders + prefs.js + abook.mab, will that be enough to keep all of these settings intact? If not, where are these settings located?

Also, is there a way to incrementally backup my mail folders so i don't have to copy the whole inbox when I've only added a few messages?

Is there a simple solution to keeping Thunderbird and Portable thunderbird synchronized?

Right now I copy the profile directory back and forth, but if I've made changes on both, then I accidentally overwrite one. Any advice on how to efficiently maintain a single profile in two different places?

(the same question applies to Firefox, with respect to bookmarks, etc.)

Thanks,
chris.