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Profile Path

Submitted by dancerstl on March 21, 2006 - 9:34pm

Is it possible to set up the user profiles outside of the program file directory structure? For example, the path to the program is:

    F:\PortableApps\PortableThunderbird

I would like to set up a common area for my profile information on the same drive, but not under the program directory so that the data and settings wouldn't be inadvertantly erased in an upgrade or recovery. The path would be something like this:

    F:\ProfileData\Thunderbird\Profiles

Individual profiles could then be added below that directory as needed. So, is it possible to set up a relative path in the configuration file to correctly point to this directory? Perhaps something on the order of:

prompt for proxy password

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 19, 2006 - 11:09pm

my college network uses proxy authentication for HTTP, and I've changed the proxy setting for my thunderbird as I did with my firefox. but thunderbird doesnt prompt anythin such as proxy authentication. and I still cant get any of my email instead of an email account in my network

Portable Thunderbird won't load calendar ext.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 19, 2006 - 4:09am

I have successfully loaded Portable Thunderbird and Poratble Firefox. Thunderbird won't install the Poratable Calendar extension. I get the message "Can't install Calendar: invalid install program". I tried different links, and the only way I could get the calendar to install was in Portable Firefox. I'd rather have it in PTB. Any ideas?

Thanks.

a "memory cannot be read" and a "memory cannot be written" problem

Submitted by whisky on March 15, 2006 - 7:47pm

Hi everyone !

First of all, since English is not my native language and I am French, I apologize in advance for all the mistakes in my sentences. That said, let's get back to business. I'm a great fan of John's work andI extensively use "PortableFirefox" and "PortableThunderbird" (PTB hereafter). Everything was going with PFB until 30 minutes ago when it crashed repeatedly. Why ? Well, let me explain. Yesterday, I had the following organization : three email accounts, lets call them A, B, and C. Both B and C were "local accounts", i.e they were linked with the "local folder", and A was superior level account in the sense that it was not linked with the "local folder" (I hope I am clear). Today, well in the morning, I deciced to make all the three accounts linked with the "local folder" so I would have only one folder in the left side panel, precisely called "local folder". I have to mention that I deal with a huge ammount of mails everyday, in terms of reception and storage (for instance, I have a subfolder containing more than 3000 mails). Then I went to the "preferences" page and selected the following action for all my three accounts : "check emails at startup". Then I closed it to eat and after coming back I launched it, and here is the message I got :

PThunderbird and left behind keys?

Submitted by Mr-Fly on March 14, 2006 - 1:05pm

Hi John.

I checked on my registry and it seems that Portable Thunderbird leaves these keys:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\Profilename Application REG_SZ "J:\PortableThunderbird\thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -profile "J:\PortableThunderbird\profile" -mail 14.03.2006 18:53:02 101

I am using Portable Thunderbird Launcher 1.1.1 Beta 3 with Thunderbird version 1.5

Kind Regards
Thorsten

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