Vista - Recovered items

What is the "recovered items" folder for ? When I installed WLM, it appeared
in the "storage folders". It also contains a subfolder whose name is a date,
it appears, but it is empty.
Thanks in advance.

Mike

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8B1DA862-7A79-45B9-A6A9-9FD1850F3135@xxxxxxMine has all the messages from OE which were transferred on migration to
WLM, also it'll create the same folder when you manually choose to import
messages from OE.

HTH,
Edna

Items are recovered when for some reason message info didn't get
written to the database on shutdown. This can happen for all sorts
of reasons - you moved a bunch of files and then closed the program
down before it had quite completed its housekeeping, or a newsgroup
was in the middle of synchronizing when you switched to mail or
closed down. They get put into a Recovered items folder, but then
the program will try and find out where they should be and move them
to the right folder. This leaves the Recovered items folder empty.

You can safely ignore it; in the current version of the program
(12.0.1606) if you delete it, your Quick views will start to
malfunction and have to be repaired. A search for "repair quick
views" should bring up a number of posts telling you how to do this.
--
Noel

"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, Mike.

Just to echo Noel's comments...

When I first started using WLM (still in beta then) about a year ago, I had
to deal with several Recovered Items folders. I had a bumpy transition from
OE to WM to WLM beta and finally to WLM gold. So there were several
partially-completed moves along the way, resulting in those multiple
folders. But they all got resolved; I fixed some (I don't recall how) and
some fixed themselves.

I can't recall seeing any Recovered Items for the past year or so. ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

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