Thunderbird Portable

Thunderbird Portable 91.4.0 leaves an empty file named UpdateLock-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX in ProgramData after being closed. This is due to the way Thunderbird calculates the CityHash of the path it is running from.

I felt it was more important to update Thunderbird than to have it perfect. I spent a few hours poking around the 2GB of Thunderbird source to get it to match. I'm likely just missing a small detail. I'll be working on this to get it sorted in the next release.

My rss feed of portableapps.com has disappeared from thunderbird. From what I can see on the site, there is no option to select an RSS feed that can be used with thunderbird. Please clarify.

thanks

Hi,

i started my Thunderbird Portable this morning and everything seems to be gone.
It asks me to setup my emails like nothing is installed. Its looks like my ThunderbirdPortable.exe is starting Thunderbird 91.3.2?

The mail folders are still there and full but Thunderbird cant "find them" anyome?. For example: E:\Mail\Data\profile\Mail\pop.gmx.net

Using Windows10, external drive.
Any advice?

Thanks a lot!

https://portableapps.com/development/outdated#comment-248312
scriptdaemon wrote "Mozilla Thunderbird 91.3.0 (John building for Stable release in line with local Stable push...)"

What will the actual version of Thunderbird Portable be that replaces the 78.14 version?

Firefox 91 ESR portable has been released, but nothing for Thunderbird which basically has the same Mozilla stable release
schedule as Firefox.

Here is the best and easy solution to make ThunderbirdPortable as Default Mail Client...

1. Create a subfolder in your ThunderbirdPortable folder (for example: "..\ThunderbirdPortable\Windows")

2. Change to the created subfolder to create the following batch-file...

3. Create a batch-file (for example: "Thunderbird Portable Integration.bat") with the following content :

Hi,

Been loving using Thunderbird for years, but when I switched from the regular installed version, to PortableApps, one thing I could never get working again, was clicking a mailto:// link in any browser, it always tried to turn the requested email into a newsgroup message.

Any way I have found an answer, and it has to do with the way that a Registry key is being written by the System.

Hi,

will there be an Update for the 78 Version or do i have to install the new Beta Version of 91?
Thx for your real good job!

Would be nice to get some news how you see this in future.

Regards Jacek

Following a system crash and a disk system repair Thunderbird thinks that it running for the first time despite most of the installation looking fine on the disk. Looking at Thunderbird support it appears that one or more profile file needs replacing. Unfortunately the relevant files are in a structure that differs significantly between the standard and portable systems. Can anyone tell me which files need replacing?

Hi all

I would like to create an internal guide to upgrade Thunderbird (portable version, not installed) to a new version.
I have version 51 and I would like to upgrade to version 78.

I discovered here (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_folders_in_the_profile_-_Thunderbird) the files list, used by Thunderbird.

ThunderbirdPortable updated and all accounts have vanished, when executed it appears like a fresh install. Profile folder is still the expected size n GB. Checking this forum I have already tried:

(1) replacing the prefs.js file with one from a (much older) back-up, which made no difference
(2) Copy-pasting the data folder into the appropriate folder for a Thunderbird 78.0.1 desktop application, again not successful, the profile does not appear

Can anyone help guide me on how to recover my profile & emails? Thank you in advance

CW