As mikey indicates go to View | Current View | show all messages.
If that doesn't help, then your database is corrupt. You can try compacting
and repairing it to fix it with my WMUtil program (
www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/) .
It may or may not help.
If that doesn't help then the only solution is to wipe out the database.
First see here and make sure you don't have antivirus software set to scan
email (
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#2). Then go to Tools | Options | Advanced
| Maintenance | Store Folder to find the message store location. Then move
everything under that Windows Mail directory to another directory, so that
the Windows Mail directory is completely empty. Then restart WinMail and it
will open fresh with nothing
in the database. You can then add your accounts and if they work correctly
then you can import messages from the directory to which you moved the files
back into WinMail (see
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm2wm).
steve
"Ron in France" <RoninFrance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi - new boy here.
> Just upgraded to Vista from MCE using a Dell-delivered upgrade package.
> All
> seemed to work OK until I tried to access my mail - major problems:
> 1. All my old mail folder and sub-folder names appear down the left, and
> when I select Local Files, they are all shown as having zero unread, but
> what looks like the right number - sometimes several hundreds - of 'Totla'
> messages, but nothing appears when i try to click on them to open them.
> Even
> the Inbox, which shows a number unread in brackets) reveals nothing at all
> Just the French equivalent of "there is nothing to display". Now the odd
> thing is that, having tried going in and out several times, once - and
> only
> once - the inbox comntents sudenly appeared and I was able to opena nd
> read
> the mail. Then when I tried to drag and drop into mail folders or into the
> "Deleted Items" folder, I received the message (equivalent in French)
> "Windows mail. Action could not be completed - an error was produced" No
> error code! I have never been able to reproduce the situation and since, I
> just have a list of "empty" folders.
> 2. I can neither send nor receive mail. When I try to send, I receive the
> message (equivalent in French) "Windows Mail. The message was not sent -
> an
> error was produced" Again no error code!
> I have checked out POP3 account details etc and they have been transferred
> correctly from Outlook Express - I am at a loss to know where to go next.
> I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions. In the short term I ma
> having to access my mail via the ISP server like hotmail but hardly
> satisfactory for the longterm, so I must fix this quickly.
>
> Thanks in advance for ideas.
>
> Best regards
> Ron in France