The right hinge on my HP nc4000 broke today. The left hinge broke 3 months ago. At that time, the service centre told me that it would take 3-4 days to replace the whole LCD panel. The LCD is working fine but they are not able to replace just the hinge since it comes as an assembly.
Since I work primarily on the notebook and cannot afford to go without it, I decided to “hang” on one hinge. Now I have no choice but to send it to the service center again.
Anyway that is the background.
So, I stripe out the harddisk and hook it up as an USB drive to my desktop pc. With this, I can access most of my data and use the necessary applications with no problem. One minor problem is my Thunderbird mailbox. I need to read and reply to mails still in the mailbox.
"Someone must have encounter problem before" I thought. A quick keywords search found some potential information.
How to run Thunderbird USB drive. (Link missing) Not quite what I wanted but an interesting idea. A change of keywords got me the result right on Mozilla site. Bulleye!
How To Manage Profiles.
It is really so simple. On WinXP,
- Quit Thunderbird if it is running
- Look for "Application Data/Thunderbird" under C:\Documents and Settings\username
- Open the file profile.ini
- Change these 2 linesIsRelative=1
Path=/Profiles/somenamesto
IsRelative=0
Path=drive:/full/path/to/profile/ - Start Thunderbird and all the former mailboxes will appear. Done!
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