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TB inbox has gibberish folders and lost read mail after upgrade.

Submitted by penthicilea on July 12, 2009 - 7:13am

Hi

I'm running thunderbird portable on my memory stick, I did the update last week to the latest suggested version (the one that popped up in the update window). It says my current version is version 2.0.0.22 (20090605)

I haven't updated TB since I installed portable apps 1.1 as I haven't had bandwidth.

Now my inbox has below it a whole lot of random folders named /, $ etc. The last few folders are named by single letters a to t Whats in my inbox is a small percent of my mail(seems to be only unread mail, and the other folders are gone.

Thunderbird Portable wont start

Submitted by akirkessner on July 7, 2009 - 8:57am

I have Thunderbird portable on a usb stick and until yesterday have had no problems. This version travels between my win xp machine at work and a vista machine at home. Yesterday Thunderbird would not start on the XP machine but will run fine on the Vista machine. I tried re-install of the portable app but no change. The error I get is a non-specific error "thunderbird.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I also have Firefox portable on the same usb stick and it works fine. Can anyone help?
Thank you
Adam

Thunderbird Portable-Outlook Express

Submitted by sbolton on July 1, 2009 - 8:31am

I have a huge number of Outlook Express emails on a computer. I want to use Thunderbird portable to "back these up" and then run Thunderbird portable on a flash drive to go between two locations.

so, I guess I want to do two things:

1. Get Thunderbird portable set up. No problem here.

2. Get all the old email from Outlook Express. I am not in this location but I assume I go to tools and import.

Does that sound right?

Thanks

sb

-profile option

Submitted by nm_user on June 30, 2009 - 8:14pm

How can I use the -profile option to point to a user profile. In "normal" thunderbird I just write -profile [file path/name].
Can I do this with the portable thunderbird launcher? If so, how? Creating a shortcut includes the drive path, which would ruin the portability, as a different machine might mount the drive on another letter.

TB Portable no longer default client after update to 2.0.0.22

Submitted by tmaibaum on June 30, 2009 - 7:25am

Hello,

not sure if this the right place for my question? If not, please point me in the right direction. Smile

I've been using TB Portable as my default client for a few years now. Provided that TB Portable was up and running, Windows recognized it as the default client for "mailto" links and sending documents out of applications such as MS Office.

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