Thunderbird Portable

I'm new to thunderbird and am wondering how I go about synching my thunderbird with my portable thunderbird and vise versa. What are the steps when I want to take my USB to another computer and then back again to my home computer? Thanks for any help you can give.

I managed to knock my usb key as I was loading Thunderbird portable.

When I now load thunderbird it is as if it is a new instal and never been used. No accounts and no mail. I do not have a current back up. I know I will learn one day.

Is there any thing I can do to retrive my mail. I have lost some important stuff and my boss is gonna kill me. If any one can help please

thank you in advance

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HELLO ALL,

I am facing a serious problem, that will cost me 4 years of hard work to be lost..
I established four accounts in one version of T/B, and were working properly, until 2 days ago, the software was not able to log to show me any message.. it is clear that the data is there since the size is more than 12GB still exist.. but now it is starting as if T/B has been installed from start.. and asking for accounts configuration..
Please, help me cos am not willing to be starting from scratch..

Thanks in advance

I'm using a copy of TB Portable to make a backup of a large number (12k+) of messages currently residing on my email server. I'm leaving messages on the server for now as a backup, and my "local" copy of TB works fine with it. However, TB portable keeps re-copying messages it's already read from the server (usually about 4k of them at a time!), and it looks like a nasty bug.

I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition (SP-2) on an Athlon 64 X2 (dual core).

I've got T-Bird and Firefox working on my jump drive. For FF, the application Icon was sent to the main window of the jump for easier access. It works. However, doing the same for T-Bird doesn't. An error message comes up saying to reinstall to fix the problem (it doesn't). Is this the way Portable T-Bird is or is there a workaround? I'd appreciate any feedback. Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend. D Jones

Whenever I try to send an email, it shows "enter your password for ***** on smtp.mail.yahoo.com". I promptly fill up my yahoo mail plus password and I check the "use password manager to remember this password".

Then it shows "enter your password for ***** on smtp.mail.yahoo.com again and again even I check the remember password.

Once I press cancel sending.

I change a computer so I copy the whole thunderbird Portable to my new computer.

The Thunderbird Portable works fine on my computer except that it can't record my new Message filters info. When I modify my Message Filters, the thunderbird works immediately and correctly.

But after I shut down and restart the thunderbird portable, the new message filters are gone. I don't know why.

I can't modify the filters config file manually:
ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\ImapMail\11.11.11.11\msgFilterRules.dat

But just can't save the change to this config file in thunderbird.

I feel like a noob, but here goes.

I have a version of TBP that I use on my main desktop. At some point, I must have hit "Update" and now have mess. I know how to transfer a profile from an installed to a portable version (copy profile) but it seems that some of my information is in the portable location, and some at the "Application Data" location. Copying either makes the new portable version act like a new install. Does this make sense? (Be kind.) Is there a way to save this, or should I just use this as an opportunity to migrate to TB 3.0?

EDIT:
In this posting I describe a workaround for the problem: https://portableapps.com/node/20611#comment-127130

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Hello,

after I installed the latest german version of Thunderbird portable 2.0.0.23 the add-ons Enigmail and Lightning are in English language. When I went back to 2.0.0.22 the were in german again. Any ideas?

Best regards!

Hi all,

It seems it's 'portable apps problem week' this week

My TP writes two keys (.... = email adres) to the registry:
-one to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\.....
-one to HKEY_USERS\\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\.....

I can remove them from the registry, but every time I ran TP they're there again.
It's a bit annoying, as I cannot run TP on a PC without leaving 'a trail'

Running TP 2.0.0.23, only addon is Lightning 0.9 for my calender.