Thunderbird Portable 643h13

Hello there,

First, allow me to thank John for his tireless efforts bringing portable software to our computers.

I arrived at work this morning, opened Thunderbird (Portable) and was delighted to see the automatic update notification for v1.5.0.8. The partial update ed and prompted me to restart the programme, yet upon doing so I was informed that the partial update had failed.

Thunderbird proceeded to the full update, however upon restarting the version number still reads 1.5.0.8.

Is this a known issue? I recall that previous versions of TB/FF would not update successfully, due to the removal of the 'Uninstall' program from the Update folder - is this still the case?

This is modified from a post send by leepa

Manual update of Firefox (Thunderbird):

0. Close Firefox (Thunderbird) Portable
1. Create a subfolder firefox-update (thunderbird-update) in a folder where application is installed
2. appropriate .mar file (from any ftp mirror under e.g. /pub/mozilla/thunderbird/1.5.0.8/update/win32/en-US7)
3. Copy the updater.exe file from application folder to firefox-update (thunderbird-update) subfolder
3a. Also copy updater.ini from application folder to firefox-update (thunderbird-update) subfolder
4. Copy the mar file to the folder created in step 1 and change its name to update.mar

Portable Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 hasn't even officially been released and mozilla has already released Thunderbird 1.5.0.8. Maybe John T. Haller needs to look at recruiting some help to get things moving faster.

Okay, new here. I've been using Thunderbird for some time now and my needs are to be able to access my email from several different computers. I always seem to be on the wrong one when I want to check the email and have access to all older email.

Anyway, Thunderbird Portable seemed to be the answer and it is when loaded on my desktop's external USB hard drive. This works quite well (albeit a bit slow in loading). Now my question is, can TBP be loaded on a LAN NAS drive? This way my desktop wouldn't need to be left on in order to view the email. I did the install, but when invoked, the splash screen displays momentarily and then nothing. I know this product is stated to be used on USB removable drives, but couldn't it also work on an LAN NAS drive?

I've posted this @ thunderbird forum, but the issue is with portable version.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=484439

Regards and thank you for any answer.

Robert

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I just put TBP on my new flashdrive, and I followed the instructions to transfer the profile from my local TB install into it, but none of my folders are appearing. The Settings show all the correct settings from the transfered profile, and even my Address book is appearing ok, but no folders. Any thoughts?

It has happended only twice in Tbird portable, but in the full fat version on two different computers miles apart I have the very anoying problem of Deleted e-mails from years gone by retruning into my Inbox though I had them deleted thoroughly. Is this a virus or what am I doing wrong. thank you for any help.

Regards D.F.

I already have setup TBP to retrieve my emails at work, but when I go home, it cannot connect to the server at work (obviously). What can I do to be able to read/write emails from work? I really don't know much (actually nothing) about IMAP (or anything else related to email/internet), so I don't know if the fact that the server name ends in ".local" is relevant or not.

In the site https://portableapps.sitesunblocked.org//thunderbird_portable#installing
it reads, "Just copy all of those files to the Data\profile directory within Thunderbird Portable."

It tried to overwrite the existing default profile folder, so I stopped the install and changed the name of the default profile, then migrated the profile and changed it's name to "profile" exactly as the default read.

Presumably I can delete the renamed default profile?

Installed TBP to thumb drive. Then copied over the profile. All 105 msg folders sort sequence had been set as descending and threaded reverted to the presumably default ascending & unthreaded.

This will take an hour to correct -- 2 settings each for each folder! Is there a way to prevent this? If so I would prefer to simply delete this profile, change whatever file and again migrate.