Vista - Re: Email import/viewing problem from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mai

Paul,
Rather than force you to the WLM group, since it may be the method used to export in Windows Mail.
We'll start here and crosspost to the Windows Live Mail group. Future questions can be addressed in that group.

Here are two separate methods to move messages out of Vista's Windows Mail(WM) into Windows Live Mail(WLM)
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Method 1:
Create a Blank Folder on your desktop(e.g. WMExport)
Windows Mail
File/Export/Messages
Select Windows Mail
Click Next
Click Browse and navigate to the folder on the Desktop(choose the folder, do not open the folder)
Click Select Folder
Click Next(if the folder is not empty go back to the beginning)
Select All Folders or Selected Folders
Click Next
Wait for it to to Prompt 'Your messages were exported in Windows Mail format'
Click Finish

Open Windows Live Mail
Ensure you have setup all email accounts
Click File\Import\Messages\
Select Windows Mail
Click Next
Click Browse and navigate to the folder(e.g. WMExport)
Click on the folder
Click OK(the Location of Message dialog box will now contain the correct path and folder)
Click Next
Click All or Selected Folders
Click Next
Wait for it to complete
The Windows Live Mail Import Dialog box will appear with the prompt ' Your Messages were imported in Windows Mail Format'
Click Finish

Scroll to Windows Live Mail Storage folders\Imported Folder
Click to expand
Drag the messages in each subfolder to the appropriate account
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Method 2shorter but it can get messy with a large quantity of messages)
Create an new folder using Windows Explorer on the desktop or elsewhere, e.g. WMDragEml (if Vista --consider creating the folder in
a location your have full permission .e.g Desktop, Public etc)
Create subfolders in WMDragEml with identical names as the folders in your Windows Mail account(e.g Inbox, Outbox, Sent, etc)
Open Windows Mail
Resize each so that two windows are on the screen(one for the Explorer folder and one for Windows Mail)
Switch to Windows Mail and select messages from the Windows Mail folders(within Windows Mail, e.g. Inbox--note: Control A can be
used to Select All)
Drag those messages to the identical named subfolder in the earlier created Windows Explorer WMDragEml folder.
Repeat for each Windows Mail folder(Outbox, Sent,etc)
Close Windows Mail
Open Windows Live Mail
Resize again to show two windows--the Explorer folder and Windows Live Mail
Ensure an email account is created
Drag the messages from the Windows Explorer created WMDragEml folder to the like named folder in WLM

Once complete...verify all is well..once comfortable you can clean out the temporary created folders and the no longer used email
client.

FYI..in case you missed the reference to the other newsgroup, the correct newsgroup for Windows Live Mail is:
Windows Live Mail
Nntp:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop
Web-interface: Http
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...e.mail.desktop


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...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:07A9A1EA-365C-416B-8E6D-C29884F38C7C@xxxxxx

If your Storage folders are not displayed, go to View->Layout...->Folder Pane->[check] Show Storage folders.

Make sure all your folders in Windows Live Mail have View->Current view set to "Show all messages".

You can set this to all folders at once by going View->Current view->Define views...->Show all messages->Apply View... [button]->[check] "All of my folders"->OK [button]->OK [button]

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Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium 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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