Portable thunderbird:
http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/
When i was installing thunderbird for linux i thought i saw it offer something that allows you to use the same profile information between linux and windows if you dual-boot. Do you think there is a way to have both thunderbird for win and lin on the same usb and be able to get at the profile despite your OS?
Drew
jb wrote:
I guess I replied to Drew, and not to the list, so FYI:
There's actually a branch of Firefox especially for this purpose ( http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/ ), but I didn't look too hard for a Thunderbird equivalent. I found a thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=81759 that talked about, and then I wrote up my experience on my site: http://enworb.byu.edu/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=29:2:5
In the end, to point Firefox to a specific profiles directory, us the -profile flag. In Windows, a .bat file does the trick.
--jeremy
Drew A. Withers wrote:
How did you get the USB copy of thunderbird to read your profile off of the USB drive instead of the Application Data folder in your Documents and Settings?
Drew
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:59:52 -0700, jb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, I have this new Sandisk Cruzer Mirco 512MB USB flash drive. I get Thunderbird for Windows to run off it, so I can have my email client with me at any PC, and I experiment a little with Damn Small Linux, but I never got that to boot. Anyway, I decide to mirror my work directory on it this morning, so I boot my laptop on its SuSE 8.2 partition, mount the USB drive, and then run rsync -rv /home/jeremy/work/ /media/sda1/home/work.
It works, so I run it on my Thunderbird profile, to sync my USB version of TB with my Windows version. My Windows partition on my laptop is FAT-formatted, but everything seems to work perfectly. When I boot into Windows, I click on the dirve and the pie chart shows it to be half full. So, I start looking for whatever it was that was taking up so much space. Imagine my surprise when one of the subfolders in my TB profile is taking up 7.5GB! (At least, that's what Windows said.) I tried to delete the folder, but I got a "can not read from disk" error. So, I reboot into Linux, but mount keeps telling me there is no media.
Finally, I reboot into Windows, but when I try to open the dirve (which does appear in "My Computer"), it asks me to insert a disk. I tried it on other boxes of different OS's and got the same result (it won't even appear on a Mac).
So, my question is this: Could rsyncing from a FAT Windows partition to a FAT-formatted USB drive screw something up this bad? I figure that rsync's ability to copy changed portions of files, combined with how USB drives pretend to have sectors and such (so the drivers don't get confused), may cause such a failure.
Any thoughts?
--jeremy
PS - I took delivery of this drive less than 14 days ago, so Staples.com is replacing it free of charge. Should I try rsync again?
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