You're welcome Laurian.
I'm glad you worked around that problem.
Making backup images of your OS to restore to is a good way to go, but as you realise now, a secondary backup method is also needed so you don't lose your latest e-mails, feeds, favourites, and program data, documents etc. after restoring an old OS image.
The 'Backup' folder in WLMail's Message Store contains a backup of the database. There is no point deleting it, as it won't affect anything, other than being a problem if the database becomes corrupted.
I'm not sure what problems you are having with individual newsgroups, but you could try resetting them (right-click the newsgroup->Properties->Local File [tab]->Reset [button].
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Cheers,
Peter.R
(Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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"Laurian COADA" <lauriancoada@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:487FA343-C5D2-4D83-A57A-BE1D801AA719@xxxxxx
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> I did done all these things. Nothing worked.
>
> I solved the problem with "Microsoft Communities" (from a previous disk
> image archive - otherwise was impossible, of course I lost many e-mails
> messages, received after the disk image creation date).
>
> But I just can't solve the problem with some of the other news default
> folders, inside the "Microsoft Communities".
>
> What I'm suspected is that the I have to go empty the content of the
> "Backup" folder too for everything to go back to normal (after I'll
> unsubscribe to that news and close the WLM), but of course I don't dare to
> do that.
>
> I think of that due to the fact it's doing some strange things with the
> "Contacts" too (I had to remove some group contacts to solve the problem -
> when were recreated the old information's reappeared doesn't matter what I
> tried).
>
> Thank you very much again Peter, for all your support
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> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> By the way Laurian, I have been assuming that you have exported the
>> Microsoft Communities account so that you can easily set it back up again.
>> But to be sure, I will give you the steps:
>>
>> Tools->Accounts...'News' [section]->[highlight "Microsoft Communities"
>> account]->'Export'... [button].
>>
>> Then, when you are ready to set up the 'Microsoft Communities' newsgroup
>> account again, you can import it by going:
>>
>> Tools->Accounts...'News' [section]->[highlight "Microsoft Communities"
>> account]->'Import...' [button].
>>
>> Once you have recreated the Microsoft Communities account by importing it,
>> you can make it the default account by going:
>>
>> Tools->Accounts...'News' [section]->[highlight "Microsoft Communities"
>> account]->'Set as Default' [button].
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Peter.R
>> (Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:OWGd2bDuIHA.576@xxxxxx
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>>> Did you remove *all* "Microsoft Communities" accounts in WLMail, and
>>> delete *all* "Microsoft Communities" folders in your WLMail Message
>>> Store? Please follow my instructions again and make sure you do.
>>>
>>> To remove all the "Microsoft Communities..." news accounts, use:
>>> Tools->Accounts...'News' [section]->[highlight each "Microsoft
>>> Communities" account]->Remove [button].
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter.R
>>> (Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>>> in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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>>>
>>> "Laurian COADA" <lauriancoada@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1D630AA5-24F2-41AF-B696-09DF528096A5@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>> I apologies for my delay in replying to you. I encountered some problems
>>>> with WLM.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't solved the problem, unfortunately.
>>>> Initially I thought everything did go back to normal.
>>>> Any other suggestions, to point back to default news download folder?
>>>>
>>>> Laurian
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:3F8E6C75-5010-49FF-AABD-A45B8777886A@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>>> Very unusual. When you removed the Microsoft Communities news account,
>>>>> the relevant folder should have been deleted from the Message Store,
>>>>> but I
>>>>> think that may not have happened, thus causing the addition of '(1)' to
>>>>> the account name when you re-added it later on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please go to your Windows Live Mail Message Store*. There you may find
>>>>> that you have a folder called "Microsoft Communities", and another
>>>>> folder
>>>>> called "Microsoft Communities (1)".
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, again remove the Microsoft Communities newsgroup account within
>>>>> Windows Live Mail, then close WLMail, and then delete those folders in
>>>>> your WLMail Message Store that refer to Microsoft Communities.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then repair your Quick views** that will most likely have broken. The
>>>>> Quick views are known to break in the current version of WLMail
>>>>> (12.0.1606) if any folder is deleted within WLMail (in an Account or
>>>>> under
>>>>> Storage folders), if a Feed is deleted, or if one un-subscribes to a
>>>>> Newsgroup (and probably removes an account containing subscribed
>>>>> newsgroups).
>>>>>
>>>>> You can then open WLMail and set up the Microsoft Communities newsgroup
>>>>> account again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck.
>>>>> _ _ _
>>>>>
>>>>> *To find the location of your Message Store, go to:
>>>>> Tools->Options...->Advanced [tab]->Maintenance->Store Folder (the
>>>>> default
>>>>> location is a hidden folder).
>>>>>
>>>>> **To repair the broken Quick views, delete the registry Value
>>>>> "SearchFolderVersion" under the registry key:
>>>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail. This will
>>>>> cause
>>>>> WLMail to rebuild its Quick view data store when it is next started.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Peter.R
>>>>> (Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>>>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>>>>> in
>>>>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
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>>>>>
>>>>> "Laurian COADA" <lauriancoada@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>> news:20FF2AC5-26AD-43D7-B28A-9F3C71F502B5@xxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please help me!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just accidental deleted (I was in a terrible hurry) the "Microsoft
>>>>>> Communities" news account and every time I try to restore the settings
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> the initial place it's create a secondary folder named "Microsoft
>>>>>> Communities (1)", the original folder remaining empty (it's just
>>>>>> migrate
>>>>>> from a folder to another).
>>>>>> I notice that was doing the same things with some news subscription
>>>>>> folders
>>>>>> too (inside the "Microsoft Communities" folder), before to
>>>>>> accidentally
>>>>>> delete the "Microsoft Communities" account for good.
>>>>>> What is going on? It will fill up my computer with empty folders?
>>>>>> What can I do to point default folder for downloading news to the
>>>>>> original
>>>>>> one?
>>>>>> It just become terrible annoying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you in advanced for your help
>>>>>> Laurian
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