Thunderbird Portable

Sorry for cluttering up the news thread with this before...

I am upgrading from PTB, 1.5 RC1. Being slightly obsessive, I went through my old PTB folder before deleting or moving anything, looking for any files outside the Profile folder that had been updated recently, or that weren't present in the new install. I found two files that met these criteria...in fact, they met both. They are compreg.dat and xpti.dat, residing in the thunderbird\components folder.

(I notice that files with the same names as these show up in the profile folder too...duplicates?)

Should I copy these over to the new install's app\thunderbird\components folder? Delete them? Do something else?

Does anyone have any ideas? I would like to disable the splash screen. I moved the thunderbird_localbackup.reg, the thunderbird_portable.reg and the files PortableThunderbird.ini (with an added DisableSplashScreen=true line) in to the main folder and it works! Do you think moving this files will cause any harm?

Thanks,
Bill

PS Thanks John

I just started using TB on my home computer and portable TB on my work computer. When I copy my email directory to the thumbdrive and start PTB the emails are there but are all marked as unread. What am I missing in the copy? Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Dear John,

I just started to use Portable Thunderbird from a USB drive on a
dual processor Windows XP MacBookPro.
When I start PortableThunderbird it uses 50 percent CPU (one processor)
and does not start thunderbird. When I start a second app, it starts
Thunderbird nicely and exits. The first PortableThunderbird (which keeps
running at full cpu) I can then go and kill without affecting thunderbird.

The problem appears both with 1.07 and 1.5.
Any further testing I can do.

Cheers, peter

Hi everyone,

Has anyone had any experience with the cross-platform Portable Thunderbird or Firefox? The site http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/ has these apps for d/l, which are based on John's orginal apps.

I am looking to use both apps on PC and Mac, however would like to konw what the general consesus is.

Any feedback would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks

Hi Lads,

are there any plans to fix the disk thrashing that occurs with the junk mail filter? or a work around perhaps (other than disabling it, obviously!)?

With the amount of junk mail that most of us receive each day it doesn't make any sence to have an email client without it.
Kinda makes portable thunderbird unusable.

regards,

b

Disable Junk Mail Filter (IMPORTANT) - The adaptive Junk Mail filter in Thunderbird should be disabled for each account you set up. The Junk Mail filter thrashes whatever media it runs from (1,000 to 3,000 I/O writes just for marking a me

My PTB 1.5 justed updated itself to 1.5.0.2.

Worked great.

Thanks John!

Hi John and all,

Wonderfull work on these apps - they are now part of my life ( major geek moment)

PTB was working fine for me since i first got it ( strait after release) - then about a month ago it prompted me for passwords again for my accounts.. and does so now every time i start it.

read up on main thunderbird site and it says to go in and delete all curent passwords and try again - didnt help.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again

Tonka128

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.