Thunderbird Portable

Hello everybody I need help...
I've been using thunderbird portable for quite a long time and everything was fine.
version 2.0.0.24 (20100228)

But when I open my thunderbird portable from the portable harddisk today...I loss all the inbox emails before Today and some of the sent emails before today. I can still receive new coming emails and address book is fine.

Hi all,

This morning TB3 decided to throw away the account info of my default account, the one linked to 'Local Folders'. After some searching I found out that this is not the best practice in TB as it is prone to 'issues'...

With some Web searching I was able to create a new account, move over the mail, reset my filters etc. to get email working again.

All my other accounts are fine.

Is there a way to make a little calendar/lightening shortcut like the one for the addressbook in thunderbird has? Or does the way lightening is an add-on not make it work out?

Hi,
I've succesfully set up the above on a USB stick and am wondering about portability of the three applications.
Will I still have full access to all the options I have on the system on which I set them up, since GnuPG is of course installed on the local drive?

Many thanks for any clearing of a cloudy brain.

Hi all,
I've got a non-portable installation of TB2 and want to upgrade to TB3 portable. How can I import my settings and existing eMails from TB2 into TB3 portable?
TIA
-- Solderdot

Hey

I am wondering how do I secure portable thunderbird. Like right now if someone gets my usb key they can just open thunderbird up and see all my messages and email accounts. I put a master password on but you still can see my email accounts when thunderbird loads up.

Also this stops no one from just going to the folders where the messages get stored and snoop around in the profile.

Since I am using it as a portable device and most places I don't get admin rights for so I can encrypt my stuff with like truecrypt.

Hi,

I have recently switched from Outlook Express to Thunderbird Portable 3.0.4. It's great as I can, among other tings, combine more than one account into a single inbox etc. However I have the following problems:

1.) If I copy anything from another application and try and paste it into a thunderbird email the paste does not work (I have tried Ctrl-V and right hand clicking and selecting paste). I have checked that I can paste the data into other applications such as Notepad etc and it's fine.

I am running the PortableApps version of Thunderbird 3.0.4 under Wine/Linux and am finding that Thunderbird cannot be closed properly. I run the portable apps off of a mounted USB portable disk drive, and when I exit/close Thunderbird, it leaves an orphaned process running, which in turn leaves a LOT of open files on the mounted disk drive. That in turn prevents the disk drive from being capable of being dismounted properly. This only leaves me with the option of forcefully killing the orphaned process for Thunderbird manually, which is dangerous as that can lead to file corruption.

Have had portable apps for about a month now, no major problems. Recently, platform menu opens fine, but apps (thunderbird and firefox) will not start. A crash report window appears instead. I've scanned thumb drive for virus and that checked out OK. Rebooting computer did not solve. Do I have corrupt files? What should my next course of action be?

need to preface this with "yes, I'm a computer idiot."

Windows live mail for some reason is set up as default. when i go to tool,internet options, programs, set programs. I go to "non-microsoft" option and Thunderbird portable does not show up. Any clues???

Thanking you in advance