Thunderbird Portable

Hi

I love the idea of being able to run Thunderbird from my USB flash drive. I liked it so much in fact that I decided to set up two other Portable Thunderbird flash drives for a couple of friends of mine.

I am however having a couple of problems if someone could help me out please.

Firstly for some reason when I have tested these different drives with different accounts set up I have noticed that in...

Options/Privacy/Passwords/Viewsavedpasswords

I can see my username but with the password of the actual account of the drive currently plugged in ! This is a little scary security wise. By the way each account has been created separately and each flash drive only has one account on it.

For the record, I'm running PTB 1.5.0.4 (as of an update this morning) off a USB 2.0 HDD.

My WinXP Pro (SP2) system crashed while I was working this morning. At the time, I had just restarted PTB after the 1.5.0.4 update. Now, when I start PTB, it comes up thinking that there are NO accounts configured for it. How, if it's even possible, can I recover my profile and data? As far as I can tell, all of the actual mail storage files, etc. are still there. PTB just doesn't seem to know about any of it.

If this is an FAQ, please point me in the right direction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Is it possible to modify the PTB launcher to allow multiple profiles. What I mean is, to let the profile chooser come up at startup, and allow me to choose from different profiles, say:

Friends & Family
School
Work
Junk

I know, it seems kinda redundant as PTB can have many accounts, but with all of my accounts, It is getting pretty sluggish, even with compacting, and it is way way way too cluttered. I'm, as you know, a little OC, and it would be nice if I could contain things in different profiles for organizational purposes.

And if it's not too much to ask of you, John, maybe the same option for PFF?

I've made a few other posts about parts of this problem, but none have been answered. I really need some advice, since the situation I am now in is that it takes nearly five minutes to start Portable Thunderbird. I need a portable mail client with GnuPG that I can use to *quickly* plug in to a guest PC and get my mail. I need the ability to sign my messages so the recipient can verify that it really *is* from me, even when I am away from my "home" PC.

I downloaded version 1.5.0.2 with Enigmail+GPG after several unsuccessful attempts to install Enigmail in the "Vanilla" version. After a lot of experimenting I found where the Profiles were stored and got my address book and saved mail working. The GnuPG stuff works fine from my "home" PC, but when I connect using a guest PC, it does not sign my messages. That is the object of the whole thing - to be able to send a message from anywhere, and have the recipient able to verify through the GPG signature that it came from me.

I understand that the portable thunderbird app now includes it's own default profile folder where i can simply slip in my current stuffs, but what i wanted to do was maintain the location of my default profile (outside of the protable thunderbird folders).. i wwas looking for the *.ini file to change the location of the default profile folder but i cant seem to locate it.

not a major issue really but would like to know how to do so.

Hello,

Sorry for my english, beacause i'm french !

I have a problem with auto updating tool. The tool well recognize the newest version of thunderbird (1.5.0.4) but during the installation, i have a problem notification. Then Portable thunderbird download and try to install the full newest version but il failed

Have you the same problem ? Can you help me please ?

Hello:

I think there is a typo in the Copying Your Local Thunderbird Settings instructions...

It guides you to copy the abook.maP file rather than the abook.mab file

it should be the abook.mab file, right?

https://portableapps.com/support/portable_thunderbird#installing

dw17

In case you were wondering, TB's auto update will work when upgrading to 1.5.0.4.

I installed on my portable devices:Portable Thunderbird with Enigmail+GPG 1.5.0.2.
After few days all files in Data directory gone- I can't see them, but they are still somewhere on teh USB drive (becasue of space). When I run thunderbird,app ask me, that there is no prifile and if I want to make new one?

Can you please help me, how can I get this data back.
Thanks.
ur;)s

I moved my Portable Apps to an 8 GB T.One USB 2.0 HDD (http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpN...) some time ago and everything seemed to work well. About a week ago, Portable TBird started to crash upon application start.

Interestingly enough, I've also installed the portable version of TB for Mac OS X, and that application still works on the HDD without crashing.

I upgraded to the newest version of PTB, I downgraded to an earlier version, and finally I installed to the 1 GB Thumbdrive I used to use my portable apps on (but moved to the HDD for space and worry of flash drive fatigue) and everything runs now.