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Transferring settings from memory stick to memory stick

Submitted by Mike W on September 20, 2012 - 11:11am

For a few years now I have used a sandisk cruzer titanium U3 stick with Thunderbird for my emails. Now have Windows 7 and I know it doesn't work with 7.

How can I transfer my email settings and, if possible, all my emails, from the cruzer to a new memory stick.

Thanks,

Mike

Thunderbird portable version not correctly recognized

Submitted by Jorge XXXXX on September 15, 2012 - 6:53am

When I try to install some addons or personas from mozilla addons the button for instalation is greyed out and if I click I get this message:

Esta Persona requiere Thunderbird 3.1.Actualmente estás usando Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

Trad:

This persona requires Thunderbird 3.1.*. You are currently using Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

I'm not really sure if the version of TBP is badly encoded in some place or is a problem with some addons. I really got this problem with every persona I try to install and only some addons.

Portable Thunderbird 15 not working in Ubuntu Wine 1.4

Submitted by winghoe on September 11, 2012 - 6:21am

Hi,

I have just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and thought that with Wine 1.4, I could get Thunderbird Portable on my USB stick to run flawlessly. However, that wasn't the case and Thunderbird could not start.

I've done a lot of tests and hope that this can help to diagnose what's wrong. My suspect after all these testings, seem to point to "prefs.js".

Scenario #1
1. Download and install fresh copy of Thunderbird Portable in hard disk.
2. Double click ThunderbirdPortable.exe.
3. Thunderbird Portable (via Wine) started up.
Conclusion: Thunderbird Portable is working.

Changing thunderbird portable ICON

Submitted by Lope on August 29, 2012 - 8:34am

I run 2 instances of TB at once. One for personal emails, and one for work.
I'd like to change the icon of the Work Thunderbird so that its obvious which is which, because i switch between them all day long.

I opened up ThunderbirdPortable.exe in XN Resource Editor 3.0.0.1
Saved the icon 103 as an icon (with all the diff icon formats inside)

Opened the icon in IcoFX, edited the icons.
Then in XN Resource editor I added the new ICON, removed the old one, changed the language and resource number to be the same.

Message Filters and Folders all disappeared.

Submitted by Enforcer84 on August 24, 2012 - 3:51pm

*sigh*
I'm getting terribly frustrated with my Thunderbird Portable.
I've been using it correctly - exiting, using the Portable Apps exit so I can keep it from corrupting.

But yesterday all the message filters for one of my accounts simply disappeared. Not to mention the retention rules for the folders.
Today? All the filters for the second account and all of the folders I created for it are gone.

Anyone else getting this type of error?

AOL sent mail

Submitted by dayvsea on August 23, 2012 - 4:43pm

Aol usually logs in and lists (although it takes some time frequently) But the sent mail filing hangs 9 times out of 10 and states it cannot list as sent, would you like to keep a copy? Why is it that it can do it some of the time? If it has the ability to log on the server as sent once, what is the issue the other times?

Dayvsea, Tolt IT tech, Hartford

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