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Thunderbird Portable on different machines

Submitted by kevinpugh on January 11, 2009 - 1:03pm

Hi folks,

I am running Thunderbirds 2.0.0.19 on an old laptop hard disk which I plug into the usb port of a laptop and a desktop. I am experiencing strange fonts when I run Thunderbird Portable on a my desktop.

The laptop is Dell Latitude 1400 by 1050, 96 dpi screen where Thunderbird
displays just fine and a generic desktop 1280 by 960, 96 dpi, where the
message pane displays what looks like the first subject over the second
subject and so on down the pane. This 'double display' of the text in both the Subject column and sender column makes it essentially unreadable.

FYI: Tbird copied ALL my old mail to C:\Docs&Settings?!?

Submitted by aahhaa on January 10, 2009 - 5:35pm

I just happened to be using Search to find all the biggest files on the C: drive (leave filename blank, make size over 30000), when I came upon something that surprised the heck outta me:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\1****rar.default\Mail\Local Folders

This file contained ALL my old OE mail, including my huge Sent folder which goes back to 2004.

The filedate of 10/08 agrees, as I remember it, with downloading Thunderbird Portable, installing it to a flashdrive, and importing the WAB & all old mail to the flashdrive.

S/MIME Certificate Location not local?

Submitted by robzap on January 8, 2009 - 1:00pm

I recently setup email certificates for both my Yahoo! and Gmail accounts. On my home laptop, encrypting and decrypting emails worked fine. When I imported my certificates onto my USB drive that contained my portable version of Thunderbird, I was unable to decrypt messages. After verifying my Account settings and Certificates were correct I decided to copy the entire ThunderbirdPortable directory to my hard drive at work and everything started working again. I could encrypt/decrypt successfully, but only from the copy on the hard drive.

Forcing Thunderbird portable to open Firefoxportable

Submitted by Smerk on January 6, 2009 - 10:37pm

Is it possible to do this?

I've tried modifying my user.js to force it (I've done somilar in the past on my linux boxes)by adding the lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");

but this doesn't work Sad

Any suggestions?

mails lost after having copied TB-file

Submitted by psteffens on January 2, 2009 - 1:27pm

I'm using thunderbird 2.0.0.19 portable on my windows xp sp3. In order to archive I've copied my mail-file from 2008. I've changed the name of the copy into "2009" and cleaned up 90% of the old mails. Now I use the "2009"-file for the next year. If I have to check an old mail, i open the old "2008"-file. First it works - like in 2007, too. But after 4 hours (and compressing all sub-files) i can only read my mails from 2008 created until september. The mails from autumn > new year are invisible.

Thunderbird not starting after upgrade

Submitted by PollieXmas on December 30, 2008 - 4:47am

Hi Guys,

Thunderbird (TBP) did an automatic upgrade from v2.0.0.17 to v2.0.0.18 and now it does not start. The splash screen starts and then nothing else seems to happen.

When I tried re-installing TBP it mentioned that there is still an active/open version of TBP and thus cannot perform the install.

I'm planning to restart the pc so I can re-install but presume my problems are larger than a simple re-install.

Any ideas on where to start searching? I.e. can it be a corrupt prefs.js or index (msf) files?

Thanks
Paul

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