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Portable are different

Submitted by Brumm on October 8, 2014 - 9:16am

Hi,

unfortunately there are some comments in support forum about Thunderbird which is NOT belongs to portable versions. (i.e. *.xpi cannot install to portable).

Unfortunately the original and portable versions are mixed.

I suggest you to correct them - or improve portable versions to original version level. Wink

Lightning calendar and task entries are missing

Submitted by PetersT on September 18, 2014 - 7:00am

The other day, after starting ThunderbirdPortable, I found that all of my e-mail was missing. I managed to get the e-mail back by creating a new profile and copying all of the contents of E:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile to a new folder, then copying the contents of the new folder back to E:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile. However, my Lightning calendar tab no longer lists any of the events I'd recorded; my Task tab no longer shows any of my tasks. I tried re-installing the Lightning extension, but that failed to correct the problem.

Thunderbird hangs

Submitted by albalmer on August 28, 2014 - 3:05pm

Recently, my well-used and up-to-date (31.0) Thunderbird has been experiencing long hang-ups during many normal operations. Deleting messages, moving messages between folders, sending messages, and once, retrieving a message. It hangs for 30 seconds to several minutes, displaying the "busy" cursor. Windows reports "Not responding." Task Manager can't kill it until it decides to come back. Actually, it can kill the ThunderbirdPortable.exe process, but not the thunderbird.exe process.

user.js not working (prefs not copied)

Submitted by peter43 on August 25, 2014 - 12:56pm

hello,

i just did a fresh install of thunderbird portable and copied my old user.js file to the data\profile folder, but the settings are not present in the prefs.js.

the firefox user.js that i have created is working like charm in its folder, so i don't know what is wrong on tb's side?

any hints highly appreciated

adding spell checking in other language

Submitted by Wilfried54 on August 13, 2014 - 10:07am

Hi,

I just installed the portable version and wanted to ad an additional language for the spell checker. However it won't work the way it is described.

However I found a very simple way, so I want to share it:

1. Download the vocabulary language with your browser. You will now have a file with exention *.xpi

2. Extract the xpi file met 7-zip

3. copy the *.dic and the *.aff file to the folder: App\Thunderbird\dictionaries\

4. start Thunderbird and you can choose between the languages when you compose a message. Nothing else to do.

SOLVED - Thunderbird not sending email from one account

Submitted by sl23 on July 23, 2014 - 4:31pm

Hi,

I've just added another aol account, newly created, to Tbird. The account works when used in a browser, ie FfxPortable. But when I send emails from Tbird, I always get an error message.

I've spoken to AOL and they just said to remove and recreate the account in Tbird, which I did, but it still won't send anything.
I also got error whilst Tbird tried saving Draft.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Scott

EDIT:
Just found out I can copy the error text, so here it is:

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