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08-31-2008
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| | Re: Save before reinstall and restore after reinstall-Vista Ultimate and WLM The 'Birthday' field is not an exportable field by default or as an available selection. -- ...winston ms-mvp mail "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eLk2xcvCJHA.3668@xxxxxx Quote: > I did a backup of my WLM contacts. > > The resulting .CSV did NOT show the birthday field. > > The birthday field is visible when viewing/editing the contacts. > > I agree that the field should be in the .CSV, alas,'tis missing. |
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08-31-2008
| #12 (permalink) |
| | Re: Save before reinstall and restore after reinstall-Vista Ultimate and WLM You must have misunderstood. An export from Hotmail contacts (Windows Live Contacts) gives 81 different fields, ranging from Sensitivity to Grandmother's Maiden Name. Field no. 41 is Birthday. Not all of these fields are accessible in Hotmail, and it's a slightly different subset that's accessible in WLMail. You could probably populate them all in Hotmail, though, with an import from Outlook. WLContacts are programmable. -- Noel "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eLk2xcvCJHA.3668@xxxxxx Quote: > I did a backup of my WLM contacts. > > The resulting .CSV did NOT show the birthday field. > > The birthday field is visible when viewing/editing the contacts. > > I agree that the field should be in the .CSV, alas,'tis missing. > > Karl > > > "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:%23Dhi0xhCJHA.4768@xxxxxx > Are you signed in with a Hotmail-type Live ID? If so, all your > contacts are available at contacts.live.com and you don't need to > export them from WLMail. Further, if you *do* want to export them > to > CSV for backup purposes, then the Live contacts export includes > more > fields than you ever knew you had, including birthday. > Gary will explain to you the value of using the sign-in process > as > an extra level of security with regard to recovering lost > contacts. > -- > Noel > > "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:Ok#zr5dCJHA.1180@xxxxxx Quote: > > Gary, > > I may be using the commercial product. > > > > Do you know if the commercial product will save and restore all Quote: > > the contact fields? What prompts this question is that I did a > > save of my contact info in .csv format and upon examining the > > result in Excel and discovered that the "Birthday" field and no > > doubt others were missing. > > > > In fact, on the list of fields which can be selected for the Quote: > > file, "Birthday" is missing. I haven't done a check to see Quote: > > all is missing but that one thing alone is a killer for me. > > > > If the commercial product will truly save and restore all Quote: > > then I'm forced to use it since Live Mail doesn't save all Quote: > > > > Have I overlooked something or is this a "feature" of Live Quote: > > > > Karl > > "Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:e%23gX2HZCJHA.2480@xxxxxx > > I've used the commercial product several times and have had Quote: > > success with it. > > > > -- > > Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) > > > > > > "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:%23GXtGFYCJHA.3576@xxxxxx > > Gary, > > Thanks. Actually the procedure described in the blog is the > > procedure which I had planned to use. The procedure is brute > > force. I may use both the brute force method and the product Quote: > > mentioned. That is, I'll hold the results of the brute force > > method in reserve in case the commercial product has problems. > > Using Vista Ultimate makes one leery and weary. Quote: > > "Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:epjXI5WCJHA.4340@xxxxxx > > That commercial product is good for a 20 day free trial. > > > > Backing up and restoring everything associated with WLM is > > quite tedious. > > Have a look at this article: > > > > > Quote: > > "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:%234x3%23PWCJHA.2272@xxxxxx > > Gary, > > Many thanks. Appears to be an excellent product. > > > > Is there somewhere a write-up on a do-it-yourself backup Quote: > > $0 cost? Quote: > > "Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:u9yKYCWCJHA.4780@xxxxxx > > http://www.staticbackup.com/windows-live-mail-backup/ Quote: > > "Karl Snooks" <wiesoundwarum@xxxxxx> wrote in Quote: > > news:%23xs2zfVCJHA.5656@xxxxxx > > Good People, > > I will be completely reinstalling all software on a laptop > > running Vista Ultimate, MS Office Professional and WLM. > > > > How can I save all WLM settings, folders, files, messages, > > accounts, etc so that after the reinstall I can restore WLM Quote: > > as if nothing had ever happened? > > > > Motivation behind reinstall is due to unsolvable and > > unresolveable Vista problems and not due to WLM problems. > > > > Is there is a MSKB or how-to that is applicable? > > > |
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