You need to copy also all .plist preferences files.

I tried copying my portable mail folder to the new Lion applications folder (yes, I backed up first and have a complete and working copy), but it didn't import all my mail nor any of my mailboxes. I would really like all my mailboxes and records intact

Hey guys,

Recently purchased an imation ironkey and have already got the portable firefox browser + adium on it.

The only thing that is missing are portable OpenVPN and proxifier clients…Have been looking for these things for ages now, would be so happy if there was a portable version that I could put on my USB stick.

Anybody know something or willing to create a portable version?

Thanks for sharing.

Howto create Thunderbird Portable App with enigmail and MacGPG1 on an USB drive to encrypt your email

To secure your GPG-keys, you should put the whole newly created Portable Thunderbird Application (with enigmail and GPG inside) in a Truecrypt-Container and afterwards on an usb drive.

Create on the USB drive a file .gnupg/gpg.conf by opening the application Terminal and using the editor vi:

mkdir /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg
vi /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/gpg.conf
verbose
# debug-all # uncomment to debug
# logger-file /Volumes/USB drive/gnupg.log # uncomment to debug
no-default-keyring
keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
primary-keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/secring.gpg
trustdb-name /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
# lock-never # uncomment if you have problems writing on a FAT32 partition, read http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manpage.en.html

Install on your Mac MacGPG1 https://www.gpgtools.org/macgpg1/index.html
and copy /usr/local/MacGPG1 to your USB drive:

cp -r /usr/local/MacGPG1 /Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/

Install the enigmail add-on for your Thunderbird from http://www.enigmail.net and verify that OpenGPG uses the GnuPG from your USB drive. This can be done via the OpenGPG-Gui in Thunderbird with Show Expert Settings enabled or checking the corresponding profile/prefs.js entries:

user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentPath", "/Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/MacGPG1/bin/gpg");

user_pref("extensions.enigmail.agentAdditionalParam", "--homedir \"/Volumes/USB drive/Portable Thunderbird/Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/profile/.gnupg\"");

The "Portable Thunderbird.app" package content now looks as follows:
/Portable Thunderbird.app
|-/Contents
|-/Contents/Resources/Thunderbird.app
|-/Contents/Resources/MacGPG1
|-/Contents/Resources/profile

Tips to tune your Thunderbird performance are found at http://portableapps.com/support/thunderbird_portable#performance

Thank Naicon, you are right.

@ Zacko There isn't a profiles.ini to edit on OSX but you can open Thunderbird using this terminal command to set a custom profile foder path:

open /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -profile "custom/profile/path"

Look at the scripts at the end of this page:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps:code:thunderbird

Dear Zacko,

you have to open the dmg-file by double-clicking it and then

• Copying "Portable Thunderbird OS X" folder to your portable device.

• Clicking "Portable Thunderbird"will open Thunderbird from your portable device, wait a while before Thunderbird starts.

• You can copy your local Profile folder to Portable Thunderbird when the Copy local Profile window asks you. So, if you wish to use your address, mail, preferences you already have on your system, just click Copy when prompted, and select the folder /Users/<username>/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxyyxx.default/.

• Thunderbird application and profile folder are inside the bundle: Portable Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/. You can open the bundle "Portable Thunderbird.app" by right-clicking it and choose Show Package Contents.

• You can even update Thunderbird to the newest version, either by using the inbuilt update mechanism (not tested) or downloading the current Thunderbird in your language from Mozilla Thunderbird's homepage, mounting the .dmg file and copying Thunderbird.app to Thunderbird.app/Contents/Resources/Thunderbird.app, thus replacing it.

I still have a problem with flash plugin enabled (chromium became very slow and unresponsive, and scrolling does not work). Are there any suggestions how to fix it?

In the normal Thunderbird (non portable version) the location of the Profile can be located anywhere by changing file profiles.ini. That means to me the Profile is portable. But in the portable version of Thunderbird the Profile, as far as I can say, is required to be inside the .dmg for portable thunderbird. Please, is there a solution?

Situation: I am migrating from windows to OSX. I have a external media (usb) from which I run Windows portable Thunderbird accessing my profile on a truecrypt volume on the same USB. Now I want to do the same in OSX; Portable Thunderbird on USB configured to access Profile from my truecrypt volume on the same USB. With this setup I could access Thunderbird in any windows or OSX machine I plug the USB into.

Since the previous FreeSMUG Chromium version, I am getting a message that it is from an unidentified developer; this is on OS X 10.8.2. I don't remember seeing this before. Md5 checksums are fine. Did anything change recently?

Hi All,

I am looking for a USB driver for Mac OSX 10.8 for a Hauppauge USB-Live/2 video capture card. Has anyone heard of one or has written one?

Thanks,

Tom Kerrigan

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

Thanks, done.

Thanks—worked like a charm!

As a suggestion, I think it would be really useful to make a note of it on the Portable Firefox download page.

Download last Firefox version and copy it in Resources folder inside Portable app bundle (ctrl+Clic - Show bundle content).

I can't get it to update beyond 13.0—I can download the update and when I click "Apply Update," Firefox quits and reopens, but it's still at 13.0 and gives me the error that it failed to apply the patch.

I'm on OS X 10.6.8.

So maybe it might be good the other way around? Create an identi.ca account and repost everything from your twitter-account? It's possible. Maybe directly in Identi.ca or via http://brdcst.it. Would that be interesting? Then FOSS friends on Identi.ca could follow freesmug there.

Wikidot.com automatically post FreeSMUG news on Twitter and Twitterfeed feed all other tweets.

FreeSMUG currently is on Twitter. That is somewhat bizarre for a opensource project but understandable. Why not join identi.ca and forward that stream to Twitter? Works great, nothing would be lost, but a lot gained. Sounds like a plan?

How did this go?
Any success?

Looking for a JRE for 10.6 Intel. I need to run this from a pen drive, without installing.
Any help pls?