Windows Live Mail downloads every email I’ve ever had every time it starts!

06. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: livemail · Tags: ,
I recently upgraded to Windows 8 and installed Windows Live Mail as my email client. I set up 3 email accounts within it. As I have an SSD with limited space I followed the instructions given in several on-line tutorials to re-locate the Mail Store folder. I re-named the old one Windows Live Mailstore .old. My new mailstore folder has my initials after it to remind me that it's the new one.
Every time I open the program, there is no mail in any of the three accounts. It all starts to then download, which takes a long time. The window says checking new email, but the messages are not new, just the ones in the mail store. My Gmail account, which is I note set up as imap, rather than pop3 which the other two are, does not download any message, but rather a message which says:
WLM needs to download the folders before you can read the messages ... Click to download 
I wanted to use WLM as it has a nice simple interface, but I'm afraid I'll have to abandon it in favour of Outlook unless someone can suggest what's going wrong.
Also I should add that it does seem to be having trouble with the path to the new Store folder which it says it has to rebuild at each start up. There's a lot of mail and it isn't going to be possible to keep the store on the SSD. Why is it having so much trouble with his?

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