![]() ![]() This was a Windows 10 Dell laptop that had had the previous installation of Thunderbird on its C: drive deleted, including ALL Mozilla/Thunderbird directories. The new Thunderbird was 78.2.2 and the custom install settings were: APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES WINDOWS 10 APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES INSTALL I used the Thunderbird Profile Manager to create a profile directory on the D: drive as well - D:\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\fault\ - and copied in the contents of the old Thunderbird profile. However, I found that these directories on the C: drive had been recreated:Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\ Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Mozilla\ Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\ Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Maintenance Service\ I then ran Thunderbird and it worked perfectly, appearing just as it was in the old Thunderbird. While these directories don't seem to contain personal data, they do contain update, extensions, and settings data. To a hacker these could be even more useful than personal data - just hack the program code to send emails to them as well. All these directories should be on the removable drive too.Īfter a little research to fix this I came across Portable Thunderbird. I downloaded and installed ThunderbirdPortable 78.3.1 into D:\username\ThunderbirdPortable\. I created D:\username\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profile\ and copied the contents of the last profile into it. I ran ThunderbirdPortable.exe and it worked perfectly, appearing just as it was in the last Thunderbird. So my question is: should Portable Thunderbird not be updated like mainstream Thunderbird, making the automatic such update in Help -> About Thunderbird a bug? This showed Thunderbird, not Portable Thunderbird, and version 78.3.1, but automatically did an update to version 78.3.2.Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Ĭ:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\ I immediately checked and none of the recreated directories listed above existed.īut then I did Help -> About Thunderbird. APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES UPDATE Or are these C: directories supposed to exist in Portable Thunderbird, making it not much more portable than mainstream Thunderbird?įorget Thunderbird Profile Manager. APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES PORTABLE I only used it with mainstream Thunderbird. APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES PORTABLE. ![]() APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES WINDOWS 10.APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES UPDATE.APPDATA MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD PROFILES INSTALL.Note that the path to ThunderbirdPortable.exe will depend on where you’ve put it and what you’ve named it. reg file, all I had to do was to copy that code, paste it into Notepad, save it with a name like “Add Thunderbird Portable as Default Email Client.reg,” and then double-click on that. reg file read as follows: Windows Registry Editor Version URL" reg file, the mailto entry was present in my registry, and clicking on the mailto link on a webpage did open a blank Thunderbird email message, ready to be written and sent. Using the Regedit program available in Windows 7, I found that there was no such entry on my computer. Another Mozilla page pointed me to a registry location where there was supposed to be a mailto entry. That might have resolved it for me.īut I didn’t get that Mozilla page when I first searched, so instead I found another way that may be useful in some situations. To do that, I had to go into Tools > Options > Advanced icon (not Advanced tab) > General icon. The Mozilla page offered a reminder that I could set Thunderbird Portable to check whether it was the default email client. I got this error:Ĭould not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed.Ī search indicated that there were only a few sources of information specific to the portable version of Thunderbird. While browsing online, I clicked an email (i.e., mailto) link. ![]()
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