02-09-2008
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Re: Importing Accounts - No Option For It!
You then take that folder you created and put it on a DVD or an external hard
drive. I thought you would've known to do that.
Peter
"Tom Brown" wrote: Quote:
> Thank you Robert. That was my point, exactly. I was just checking to make
> sure something BIG hadn't happened since the last time I looked. <g>
>
> But, now that I think of it, wouldn't that be a good idea? If you could
> BACK UP data to a secret/hidden sector of a disk and then reformat it and
> then restore from the same disk after the format. It would certainly
> simplify getting a fresh install of the O/S. I know it's possible because
> my Sony VAIO laptop didn't come with any O/S disks but it has procedure for
> reinstalling the O/S from a hidden sector.
>
> Tom
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>
> <robertmiles@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:#Fa705yaIHA.5160@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Yes, but if that folder is on your disk and the format the disk, the
> > folder
> > will be erased.
> >
> > "Peter Dryton" <PeterDryton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:F55A68DB-8BDC-49B8-BBA7-9D31A33C3067@xxxxxx Quote:
> >> Hi, Tom.
> >>
> >> It's fairly easy to backup all your emails. Here's how you do it.
> >> First,
> >> set up a folder off My Documents. Give it a name, like "Windows Live
> >> Mail
> >> Emails." Then, go into Windows Live Mail. Click file, export, messages,
> >> Microsoft Windows Live Mail, and next. Click browse and find the folder
> >> you
> >> just created. Click on the folder and click OK. Click next. Choose to
> >> backup all folders (which is my preferred method) or selected folders.
> >> Click
> >> next. That's all you do.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> "Tom Brown" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Peter,
> >>>
> >>> You said: "I'm all ready when the time comes to format my hard drive
> >>> and
> >>> re-load all my email messages back into Windows Live Mail using import."
> >>>
> >>> Pardon my ignorance, but how do you do that? There is a lot about WLM
> >>> that
> >>> I don't understand but are you backing them up to some other storage
> >>> place
> >>> first?
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Peter Dryton" <PeterDryton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >>> news:E2859A93-6F71-4CFF-B234-99EB393C25E0@xxxxxx
> >>> > Importing and exporting messages is really easy. I'm all ready when
> >>> > the
> >>> > time
> >>> > comes to format my hard drive and re-load all my email messages back
> >>> > into
> >>> > Windows Live Mail using import.
> >>> >
> >>> > However, why is it that there is an option to export accounts, yet
> >>> > there
> >>> > is
> >>> > no option to import accounts once you want to re-load your accounts
> >>> > back
> >>> > into
> >>> > the program? It makes no sense.
> >>> >
> >>> > Peter
> >>> >
> >
> >
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