Thunderbird Portable

i am using portable TB from a USB hdd. been using this for few months now. very contented.

today morning, while shutting down my PC, i removed the USB hdd, & windows gives warning of failing to write something on the hdd. (actually TB was closed just before that)

now it does not start. i just tried copying all contents of profile folder into another portable TB installation on c drive, when i noticed that the file prefs.js cannot be copied. so i replace this file from a old backup, & it works, but the recent config changes are lost.

plus now there is a new problem. any customisations that i wish to make to my toolbar are getting lost, when i restart TB.

My prefs.js file has the following setting for enigmail:

user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentPath", "S:\\software\\Portable Thunderbird 1.5rc1 with gpg and enigmail\\PortableThunderbird\\gpg\\gpg.exe");

If I change my drive letter for the USB device, the NSI code doesn't update this field. I am unable to send encrypted email or do key management.

I've also tried all manner of "..\\gpg\\gpg.exe", etc, without success.

Hi.
Huge congrats on portable thunderbird with PGP/Enigmail built in, truely brilliant.
But I'm having problems. I've copied my profile and copied the PGP databases and all is fine with regards to most things, except I have a public/private key pair which is used for multiple e-mail addresses, if I use it on my uni address then it works fine, but if I try to send an e-mail from my private address it says that the private key is not available and so I can't sign any e-mails.

This works fine on my standard Thunderbird, and sometimes works on the portable thunderbird. Any ideas?

I did notice that the location of gpg.exe is left blank in the enigmail preferences box, is this normal?

Anybody know of an addon or setting within PTB to prompt for a password before starting the program?

I know there a password protecton for profiles and the like but I fear leaving the flash drive around or loosing it completely and somebody finding it and without any problem logging in and send emails from my account.

So it might be nice to have an add on that when either the autorun or you double click on the icon it asks for a password before proceeding.

Thanks for any help/suggestions.

Mark Wright

Hi,

First thank you, yours apps changed mylife, I just have a probleme with thunderbird,
when I delete mail in the application, it's not realy done in the "inbox" file, it's the same for "sent", I realized that because, I deleted a lot of mail and the "inbox" files of each account was still as big as before, full of rubish, especialy the attached files comming from spams, with virus (not active, but anyway).

I have to remove them manually with a text editor, wath could be the probleme?

Thank you again for your contribution.

PS : -when the "Portable Apps" will be able to run linux.

I'm using PT 1.5 with the GNU-OpenPGP-EnigMail add-in.

I notice that during Compact Folders on the account-level node, the progress bar doesn't appear as each folder in the account is compacted. Compact seems to be working, since I see the write light on my flash drive.

Is this a bug? If so, has it been reported?

I noticed that v1.5 seemed to take a very long time to load.
By "Load" I mean the time from clicking on the startup icon to where my Inbox messages are shown. Both versions are on the same USB stick.
v1.0.7 took 16 seconds
v1.5 (20051025) took 2 minutes and 51 seconds.

Both versions had about the same number of messages in the various folders.
Both have compacted folders.

Any hints?

Plus, I see in v1.5 even though I have set check for new mail every 20 minutes, nothing new is ever in my Inbox until I manually click on Get All Messages.

Has anyone seen anything like the following?

When I plug my Memorex 1GB thumbdrive into my laptop PC running WinXP (with it's USB 1.1 port...ugh!), I see the following (which does not happen when I plug into my desktop PC running WinXP (with a USB 2.0 port/hub)):

The thumbdrive shows up without the label I gave it, just as "Removable Disk," and it is shown as being in RAW format, not FAT32. Know that it *actually works fine* here, unlike what seeing RAW here can often mean. If you call up a command prompt and look at the drive, it says it's FAT32. If you go to Disk Management under Administrative Tools/Computer Management in the Control Panel, you see the message "connecting to logical disk manager service" and when it connects, you see the USB drive label update correctly in Windows Explorer, along with the correct FAT32 identification there, plus it shows up in Disk Management correctly. I had both the logical disk manager services on manual, then switched it to automatic, but it makes no difference. It seems that these services just wont start when you plug in the USB drive, but if you call up "Disk Management" via the Control Panel, , they do start (you don't have to go to Services to start these...they just start right here).

Although your "extension-friendly" launcher is supposed to alter the paths to any extensions to be relative (and seems to work fine), some configuration parameters (for example, "mail.root" as seen with the about.com extension) have the drive letter specified. Obviously, the assigned drive letter may change from computer to computer or depending on how many USB flash drives are connected. At least one extension ("Thunderbird Reset Quote Header" from www.supportware.net/mozilla/) requires you to browse for the text file it will use and then hard codes the drive letter into the configuration (which can be edited with about.com). Consequently, it isn't a relative path, and it doesn't work if the drive letter changes. Under the U3 modifications, is there a work-around or solution to redirect specified drive letters to currently assigned drive letters, or can % be used somehow?

Hello, how can i auto-set a higher-than-normal or high priority for thunderbird.exe on WinXP SP2?
I've noticed that you can't simply set the command on the shortcut 'cause it triggers Portable Thunderbird Launcher and not Thunderbird.exe.
Thanks