"jyc1958" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, am using XP and also lost all my Contacts after upgrading WLM.
> Any possible solution to recover my lost Contacts easily? Thank
> you.
Here's what I wrote about this a few months ago:
<quote>
If you're still on XP, you have run into a fault in the upgrade
process. Your contacts are probably still there on your system, in a
folder called %userprofile%/Contacts/Default. But they are in a
format (either .Contact or .WindowsLiveContact) that can't be used,
except to view them in WLMail. If you do this (double-clicking may
work, otherwise right-click and select Windows Live Mail), you have
a button at the bottom of the window to Add contact. If there are
not too many, this is an easy way to get them into the latest
version of WLMail. If you have lots of them, the process is drearily
long. I don't know of an easier way than
1. Uninstall Windows Live Essentials using Add or Remove Programs
2. Reinstall WLMail v. 12 from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
3. Copy the Default folder from %userprofile%/Contacts to
%userprofile%/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows Live
Mail/Contacts/
4. Start WLMail and make sure you're not signed in with a Live ID
5. Open the Contacts window and check that your contacts are all
there
6. File > Export to CSV
7. Reinstall Windows Live Essentials as you did before
8. In WLMail | Contacts, File > Import > from CSV
This is not a problem for Vista users, because the
%userprofile%/Contacts folder is an integral part of the OS. This is
not the case in XP, but this fact got forgotten by the people
writing the upgrade code.
Someone else may be along with a better solution... in the meantime,
good luck!
</quote>
I can't remember having seen a better solution since then...
--
Noel