Any windows nerds know if this is possible?

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dsiomtw

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So I use Thunderbird for most of my email, and want to be able to share the thunderbird profile between 2 different computers in my office. According to the thunderbird docs it should be possible to share the profile folder from different computers, but when I try I get an "in use" error.

Rather than dick around with this thing that obviously doesn't work the way the docs says it's supposed to, does anyone know if it's possible to create a windows macro that I can run on one computer that will quit Thunderbird on the other computer (if it's running) before attempting to run it?

I think it should be possible with a simple 1 or 2 liner, I just don't know crap about windows macros...
 


If OP means sharing the actual profile, in a sense of the word that Thunderbird uses, then IMAP won't help. Profile contains more than just email. It contains all of the settings, and extensions as well. There is no easy way, except maybe putting profile in a dropbox or something similar.
 
Each computer could have a preconfigured .bat file with a pskill command for the 2 other computers.

The result would be that when you click the .bat file you made, thunderbird would be closed on the other computers.

You make a .bat file by opening up notepad, putting in the command, going to save as, entering name.bat and 'save as type' as all files.

More info and download straight from MS,
PsKill
 
zimok said:
Each computer could have a preconfigured .bat file with a pskill command for the 2 other computers.

The result would be that when you click the .bat file you made, thunderbird would be closed on the other computers.

You make a .bat file by opening up notepad, putting in the command, going to save as, entering name.bat and 'save as type' as all files.

More info and download straight from MS,
PsKill
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Thanks bro, I think this is what I need.

amateursurgeon said:
People still use desktop email clients? Far out.
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Uh, yeah. What do you use?
 
nickycakes said:
Yeah because your email is extremely private and secure running through US owned internet backbones.
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smoke signals ftw.
 
Hmm seems like psservice is only for windows services, not applications. Anyone know how to gracefully quit an application on a remote windows system?? Google isn't turning up much...
 
This may seem a little retarded, but if you're runnng something like Real VNC you can always use Windows Task Manager on the remote systems to kill the Thunderbird service and everything in the process tree.


Then you can transfer your Profile.


I use MS Outlook and just transfer the Outlook.pst file from the Administator/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Outlook folder.

This has all of my emails and folders in just the one file. It transfers very easily between systems and installations.


Every year I copy the file to hard storage and file it away. Then when I need something I can pull it out, install it, and then find the old email I need.
 
dsiomtw said:
Gmail? You gotta be kidding. I like to keep my important business information private and secure thank you very much.
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dsiomtw said:
It's a lot more private and secure than using gmail.
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You should probably let some of these customers know how insecure it is.

Customer Stories ? Google Apps for Business

Definitely tell the U.S. Department of Energy, so they get the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory off of it as soon as possible.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Berkeley Lab is going Google
 
dsiomtw said:
Hmm seems like psservice is only for windows services, not applications. Anyone know how to gracefully quit an application on a remote windows system?? Google isn't turning up much...
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The best way to quit a process is Taskkill

Code: 
TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]] { [/FI filter]
[/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/F] [/T]

/F : force the quitting even if the process is locked
/S : your remote system with your user and password to login to
 
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