Re: TB Portable 'lost contact'
Herb
> Herb wrote, On Monday 02 February 2009 02:01 PM:
>> On 31.01.2009 15:51 UK Time, Nir wrote:
>>> Herb wrote, On Saturday 31 January 2009 03:48 PM:
>>>> My wife used TB Portable, and it used to work very well.
>>>>
>>>> However, suddenly it appears to have lost contact with her profile (and
>>>> indeed any profile), i.e. on startup TB comes up with the account setup
>>>> wizard, and I can't see a way to reconnect her profile.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully I'm missing something simple/obvious?
>>>>
>>>
>>> As Tb portable doesn't use profiles.ini file so prefs.js file may be
>>> corrupted. Herb, do you find Address Book and saved passwords are
>>> still intact?
>>
>> Hi Nir,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. All the files are still there (mail folders,
>> address book etc.), but nothing is accessible.
>
> Then prefs.js file is just fine. Something else happened and that caused
> this problem.
>
>> As I said, on startup TB comes up with the account setup and then just
>> an empty TB window when I cancel the wizard.
>>
>> Any suggestions for how to reconnect the profile?
>>
>
> I'm assuming that you are using 'ThunderbirdPortable.exe' to launch
> Have you recently changed folder structure in Portable Tb installation?
> According to help file, portable Tb looks for profile folder at a
> predefined ( relative ) location, i.e , "Directory with
> ThunderbirdPortable.exe/Data/profile. If you have done any modification
> then you also have to modify ThunderbirdPortable.ini file accordingly
> and place it in the same folder as ThunderbirdPortable.exe.
>
> Herb, I believe you should ask same in Portable Thunderbird support forum
> "http://portableapps.com/forums/support/thunderbird_portable"
>
Hi Nir,
Thanks for your further reply and the pointers.
I'll report back once I got to the bottom of this problem.
--
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Herb
I still haven't managed to sort this out, and in any case, I generally
feel somewhat uneasy about everything residing on a tiny piece of
hardware (i.e. a USB stick) that one can easily lose...
I am therefore minded to move my wife back from TB Portable to the
'proper' TB.
Am I right in assuming that I can simply create a new profile for her
and then copy/move her TB profile data (in particular her mail folder
and mail settings and hopefully her address book, filters and stored
passwords) over to the new profile?
I know how to do this between 'proper' TB profiles, but I wonder whether
there are any issues I need to be aware of for the transfer from TB
Portable to TB 'standard'?
--
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk
Herb
> Herb wrote, On Saturday 31 January 2009 03:48 PM:
>> My wife used TB Portable, and it used to work very well.
>>
>> However, suddenly it appears to have lost contact with her profile (and
>> indeed any profile), i.e. on startup TB comes up with the account setup
>> wizard, and I can't see a way to reconnect her profile.
>>
>> Hopefully I'm missing something simple/obvious?
>>
>
> As Tb portable doesn't use profiles.ini file so prefs.js file may be
> corrupted.
Hi Nir,
You were right all along, and I could kick myself for not checking this
out properly when you mentioned it! :-[
For some mysterious reason prefs.js had been renamed prefs-1.js and
replaced with a new prefs.js =-O
All is well again now, except that the addressbook also appears to have
been replaced with an blank version (without a '-1 copy' :-( ), but I
was able to retrieve a fairly recent version from a backup drive.
Thanks again for your help and patience.
Unfortunately, while trying to sort this out, I seem to have messed up
my wife's Firefox Portable installation, but I dare say I better start a
new thread in the FF group...
--
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk