Thunderbird Portable

The Short
Computers that have never had TBP run on it have all my folders (along the left side) closed, while computers that I have used TBP have all my folders expanded.

The Long

I've used Thunderbird portable apps in another lifetime in another world not too long ago. I moved on to a new company recently and to my horror I am not allowed to use my laptop for anything personal! How dare them! I can't even load a cd into my nuetered laptop without sending the disc to the computer Nazi's and have them scan and check it for potential virus's and fingerprints. Since I travel quite a bit I realized the only way to get my emails would be thru the public computers that a hotel would keep in the lobby. Yuck! Who knows where someone's fingers may have been???

Can someone post a ??newer?? Address book shortcut? It doesn't seem to pick up the old file anymore since the new PAM update. The file is there in the Thunderbird folder.

And the link in the "Office" section of applications points to the whole Thunderbird file. I would have thought that it would point to the shortcut file.

Hello John Haller,

I want to make a request, could you please ask the development team of thunderbird portable change the priority order of thunderbird portable to seven priority levels,six priority level is like this Lowest(Most Private)-Low(Private)-Normal-High-Emergency-Critical, and add ExpressMail Feature.

Cordially Yours.

I'm running TB portable from a USB stick using the portable apps menu. Yet I notice that it's using profiles.ini located in my "C:\Documents and Settings\..." folder hierarchy. I thought the whole idea of the portable apps system when used on a USB stick was it should not start messing with the C: drive? How do I stop it accessing (and changing) C:?

Hi,

I downloaded and installed Thunderbird Portable on a USB Flash Drive, it works fine but I would like to create many profiles because with Outlook Express I used many identities.

I read that you can manage (create/edit/delete) profiles through "profile manager" and you can reach it typing string to the url to .exe file plus "-p" option in the "start->run" prompt, e.g.:
"C:\Programs\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p

Actually it works on my C installation, but it doesn't work on my Flash Drive installation, in fact if I type:

2009-04-01

When I set up my Thunderbird Portable, I attempted to import some email from my regular Thunderbird programme, via the utility that allows import & export in mbox format. In the process, I discovered that my export had failed, as the folders imported into TBird Portable were empty. I have since been successful at importing what I wanted, but cannot remove the folders that I originally tried to import.

I have emptied the trash and compacted the folders as recommended. Short of uninstalling/reinstalling, is there any way to delete these folders?

Normally I'm a pretty smart guy with computers, but right now I'm going through chemotherapy treatments, so there's a lot of mental confusion. I did try to look up the answer in Thunderbird help and by searching this forum, so my apologies if I missed something simple.

EDIT: Look at arizona480's post from March 21, 2009 - 7:24am on this thread here
https://portableapps.com/node/11309 and you have your solution!

I have a problem it seems many have had over the years, which is to use FF/TB Portable as the main and default programs instead of the local versions.
I understand there are problems where paths are being created in Documents and Settings instead of the PortableThunderbird folder and the start menu buttons point to blank versions of the programs.

Hey, I am desperate now, please read carefully:

I want to use ThunderbirdPortable 2.0.0.21 and FirefoxPortable 3.0.7 on Windows XP Professional on my laptop as the default Interet and E-mail instead of the local versions.
Unfortunatelly I had this thought after I had installed TB/FF Local versions. Now to my shame I can't remember if I uninstalled TB/FF Local first and then created the TB/FF Portable versions or the other way round.

What I want is:
1) TB/FF Portable as default Internet and E-Mail
2) accessible through start menu (set via start menu properties>customize)