Windows Live Mail FAQ
Is possible to do as the topic?
When I'm logging in "Windows Live Mail" any change item of "Contacts" on one computer is visible to other comp. It means, I think, that my "Contacts" are in Cloud. I woud like this same with my all mail'ing stored at Windows Live Mail program. Can I do it?
BTW. It's not about the POP or IMAP protocol accounts.
When I move an email from my inbox to the "Storage Folders / Personal Saved / whatever" that I created, the heading line appears correct, but the contents are from another email. I have about 50 folders, broken down by subject and I would hate to have to export each one and then re-create the tree structure after re-installing WLM. Is there any tool to clean/verify the structure of the store? How would you suggest cleaning up this mess? Running WLM Version 2009 Build 14.0.8117.0416. This was working just fine until a couple of weeks ago and I just noticed the problem.
Ernest
Original Title: My storage folders on my hotmail account do not show since I transferred to windows 8 and it only shows sent mail for the last two weeks, neither is there a task bar. Where has everything gone?
I have set up my Windows Live Mail account on my new (Windows 8) computer. This was/is a Hotmail account but I gather it is now Outlook whether I like it or not! I seem to have lost four different task bars i.e. Home, Folders, View, Accounts. And where are the Storage Folders? To make matters worse this new system appears to only hold "Sent" mail for a couple of weeks.
Can I customise all of this and if so how? Please advise.
I have the same problem - 950 folders 18,000 mails.
1) You cannot drag a folder from Storage Folders>Imported Folders>local Folders>(FolderName) to a POP account's folder list. The mouse pointer indicates that you can (no "Stop" sign appearing on the mouse pointer). After the "drop" nothing happens. Using the toolbar "Copy to" icon results in an error "Cannot transfer folders between servers". Inconsistency here. Local Folders are a "server" ????
2) Duplicates, duplicates.
Using Win Explorer to check the files on disk and set up new folder C:\(user)\Mail
In WLM change the mail store to the new folder.
Close WLM, files are transferred. Reopen WLM.
Check the disk appdata\local\microsoft\WLM - mail storage files still there.
Check new location C:\(user)\Mail - ok but files there as well.
As an experiment to see how WLM recovers idexes and mails - Shut down WLM first.
Remove index control files (2 of them) from the disk using Windows Explorer, restart WLM. It recovers mails and indexes - ok
Mails now in Storage folders> Recovered>etc>etc>etc, this includes Mail accounts and their folders too.
None however go back to their original locations which might be folders under a POP account.
Check the disk - Another set of duplicates appears in C:\(user)\Mail the originals + folders duplicated, suffixed by (1) in the folder name, created by the recovery process.
3) There is no simple mechanism to rebuild the entire folder structure from scratch by using the files in the mail folder on the disk.
In Outlook Express all you had to do was delete Folders.dbx, restart OE and the folder list was rebuilt.
OK you didn't have separate accounts (except identities of course), but it worked, every time.
Is it possible to do something with Item 1 above ? Drag and drop folders from Storage Folders to an account folder would make our lives so much easier. Item 2 needs clarification or addressing. Addressing Item 3 is essential and should have been built in at the design stage.
Sorry this post is so long, I hope it makes sense too.
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