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Moved Portable Apps - TBird no longer working

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Submitted by Lethal.one on May 26, 2012 - 2:46am

Hi all,

I have just followed the instructions on moving Portable Apps and moved from a USB Key to the C: Drive for speed reasons until I get my mail files sorted out.

Firefox works. Thunderbird does not work.

The initial small TBird identifier comes up and the rotating circle appears for 10 seconds and then disappears.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can remedy this situation ?

Regards, Lethal

Thunderbird Update failed

Submitted by braeuer on May 16, 2012 - 6:47am

Hi, I have the Thunderbird App running on an network drive. Everytime when there is a new version and I try to make the update I get an message
"Software-Update fehlgeschlagen - Das Update ...". But there is no other process of thunderbird activ.
my work arround:
I copy thunderbird to an USB stick an start the update again - this works fine. After the update I copy thunderbird back to the network drive and it works fine.
Have anyone an idea, why the update on the network drive fails?

TB stops downloading messages during session; requires pc reboot

Submitted by seaotter99 on May 14, 2012 - 9:49pm

I apologize if this topic has been covered, but I couldn't find it. When I cold boot the pc, I have TB set to autostart. It is also set to download messages automatically when started. The initial download works fine. For a while after that (an hour?)it continues to download automatically and manually on demand. Then it no longer will download messages queued on the gmail server. Curiously, it will send newly created outgoing messages through gmail smtp, even after it stops downloading messages from the gmail POP server.

Thunderbird Portable on Ubuntu Linux (through wine) - Open link.

Submitted by michele.bartole... on May 14, 2012 - 9:46am

Dear users,

I'd like to refer to the possibility to open the URLs contained in the text of e-mails, making a clic on these to directly open the browser.

A lot has been already discussed in this Forum, and I understood that it isn't possible to do this, due to the property of PortableApps to preserve the privacy and not to leave traces on the pc.

Anyway, I found a comfortable way to quickly open the links, in Windows: I simply drag the link from the window of the e-mail (in Thunderbird) to the window of Firefox, and the link opens. So I did all these months, with satisfaction. Smile

Vanished e-mails and then deleted data

Submitted by darkercoffee on May 13, 2012 - 5:51pm

Hello everyone,

After the last update (12.0.1) I opened TB Portable and all my e-mails were vanished. I didn't really worry because this wasn't the first time and last times always managed to fix it. I have found a backup of prefs.js file and replaced with the one in the profile folder, assuming I'll see my e-mails when I restart TB Portable. It didn't work. The most annoying part is after replacing prefs.js, my 15.6 GB large TB Portable folder is now only 2.1 GB.

Any suggestions?

12.0.1 freezes

Submitted by 0p3nsrc on May 7, 2012 - 11:26am

Whenever I open TB, it goes unresponsive and says "not responding" in the title bar. I've done multiple installs. It works fine until I add my GMail address, and then after I complete the steps to check my GMail, it won't open properly..

Thunderbird Portable on Cloud.

Submitted by michele.bartole... on May 2, 2012 - 5:34am

Dear users,

I currently use Thunderbord Portable on my USB drive with satisfaction. But for some weeks I have been wondering if it could be possible to use it from a cloud storage. I know this is a popular discussion already discussed, but I couldn't find a post expressly dedicated, at least about Thunderbird.

I mean:

Imagine that I move my Thunderbird Portable directory (i.e. my whole application) from USB drive to a Cloude storage (Ubuntu One, for example, to which I am registered).

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