Vista - Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade

01-14-2009

I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to
get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the
Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran
without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only
contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only my
MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old WL
Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to
import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts
folder?
--
GK Oz

01-14-2009

Yep...

Same thing happened to me.

Still no joy.

Have you tried to import your Address Book [*.WAB] or a *.CSV file?
--
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Deus Vult

"GK" <GK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3793F948-F6AF-4300-A097-6BCF374B10BD@xxxxxx

Quote:

>I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to
> get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the
> Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran
> without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only
> contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only
> my
> MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old
> WL
> Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to
> import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts
> folder?
> --
> GK Oz

01-14-2009

Where do I find the old WL Mail Address Book?
--
GK Oz

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote:

Quote:

> Yep...
>
> Same thing happened to me.
>
> Still no joy.
>
> Have you tried to import your Address Book [*.WAB] or a *.CSV file?
> --
> DSH
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
> Deus Vult
>
> "GK" <GK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3793F948-F6AF-4300-A097-6BCF374B10BD@xxxxxx
>

Quote:

> >I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to
> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the
> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran
> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only
> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only
> > my
> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old
> > WL
> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to
> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts
> > folder?
> > --
> > GK Oz

>
>
>

01-14-2009

Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To this
thread...

Quote:

> Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost contacts after
> updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail.
>
> My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not utilizing
> the
> MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these contacts were gone
> and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN Messenger.
>
> Here is how I fixed this problem:
>
> 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR USER
> NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR EMAIL\real
> folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed in WL Mail
> as
> NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name.
>
> 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to import to the
> folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts.
>
> 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button in lower
> left
> corner of the screen).
>
> 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select Import --> Address
> Book for Current Windows User.
>
> 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and you will
> now
> have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did.
>
> Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have done and I
> hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to struggle with this
> less than elegant work-around.

===================================

GK wrote:

Quote:

> I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to
> get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the
> Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran
> without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only
> contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only
> my
> MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old
> WL
> Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to
> import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts
> folder?

01-22-2009

I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files in a
folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is different in XP,
I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application can find
them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my contacts so that
I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with Live Mail.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

Quote:

> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To this
> thread...
>

Quote:

> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost contacts after
> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail.
> >
> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not utilizing
> > the
> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these contacts were gone
> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN Messenger.
> >
> > Here is how I fixed this problem:
> >
> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR USER
> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR EMAIL\real
> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed in WL Mail
> > as
> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name.
> >
> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to import to the
> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts.
> >
> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button in lower
> > left
> > corner of the screen).
> >
> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select Import --> Address
> > Book for Current Windows User.
> >
> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and you will
> > now
> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did.
> >
> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have done and I
> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to struggle with this
> > less than elegant work-around.

>
> ===================================
>
> GK wrote:

Quote:

> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to
> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the
> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran
> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only
> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only
> > my
> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old
> > WL
> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to
> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts
> > folder?

>
>

01-22-2009

This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread
a few days ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q=
The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a
feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows
Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing
contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for
current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista,
then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same
form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are
not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which
can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two
possible ways out of the dilemma:
(a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then
uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at
http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry
Download WLMail v.12 from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950
and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's
Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to
CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again.
(b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each
..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage
those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import
them into and save CSV.
(c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that
Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend
with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the
appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that
mechanism doesn't exist, then tough.
[(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and
addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names
again.]

A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing
the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back.
--
Noel

"AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx

Quote:

> I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files
> in a
> folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is
> different in XP,
> I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application
> can find
> them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my
> contacts so that
> I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with
> Live Mail.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>

Quote:

>> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To
>> this
>> thread...
>>

Quote:

>> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost
>> > contacts after
>> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail.
>> >
>> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not
>> > utilizing
>> > the
>> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these
>> > contacts were gone
>> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN
>> > Messenger.
>> >
>> > Here is how I fixed this problem:
>> >
>> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR
>> > USER
>> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR
>> > EMAIL\real
>> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed
>> > in WL Mail
>> > as
>> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name.
>> >
>> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to
>> > import to the
>> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts.
>> >
>> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button
>> > in lower
>> > left
>> > corner of the screen).
>> >
>> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select
>> > Import --> Address
>> > Book for Current Windows User.
>> >
>> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and
>> > you will
>> > now
>> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have
>> > done and I
>> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to
>> > struggle with this
>> > less than elegant work-around.

>>
>> ===================================
>>
>> GK wrote:

Quote:

>> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202
>> > in order to
>> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded
>> > through the
>> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update,
>> > which ran
>> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing.
>> > The only
>> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these
>> > are only
>> > my
>> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information
>> > in my old
>> > WL
>> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there
>> > some way to
>> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail
>> > Contacts
>> > folder?

>>
>>

02-02-2009

I have XP.
My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version of
Live Mail.
I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts.
As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save.
They saved to the updated version Live Mail.
Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over.

"Ildhund" wrote:

Quote:

> This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread
> a few days ago:
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q=
> The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a
> feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows
> Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing
> contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for
> current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista,
> then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same
> form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are
> not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which
> can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two
> possible ways out of the dilemma:
> (a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then
> uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at
> http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry
> Download WLMail v.12 from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950
> and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's
> Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to
> CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again.
> (b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each
> ..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage
> those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import
> them into and save CSV.
> (c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that
> Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend
> with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the
> appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that
> mechanism doesn't exist, then tough.
> [(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and
> addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names
> again.]
>
> A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing
> the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back.
> --
> Noel
>
> "AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx

Quote:

> > I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files
> > in a
> > folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is
> > different in XP,
> > I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application
> > can find
> > them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my
> > contacts so that
> > I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with
> > Live Mail.
> >
> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
> >

Quote:

> >> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To
> >> this
> >> thread...
> >>
> >> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost
> >> > contacts after
> >> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail.
> >> >
> >> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not
> >> > utilizing
> >> > the
> >> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these
> >> > contacts were gone
> >> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN
> >> > Messenger.
> >> >
> >> > Here is how I fixed this problem:
> >> >
> >> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR
> >> > USER
> >> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR
> >> > EMAIL\real
> >> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed
> >> > in WL Mail
> >> > as
> >> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name.
> >> >
> >> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to
> >> > import to the
> >> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts.
> >> >
> >> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button
> >> > in lower
> >> > left
> >> > corner of the screen).
> >> >
> >> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select
> >> > Import --> Address
> >> > Book for Current Windows User.
> >> >
> >> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and
> >> > you will
> >> > now
> >> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did.
> >> >
> >> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have
> >> > done and I
> >> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to
> >> > struggle with this
> >> > less than elegant work-around.
> >>
> >> ===================================
> >>
> >> GK wrote:
> >> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202
> >> > in order to
> >> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded
> >> > through the
> >> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update,
> >> > which ran
> >> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing.
> >> > The only
> >> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these
> >> > are only
> >> > my
> >> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information
> >> > in my old
> >> > WL
> >> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there
> >> > some way to
> >> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail
> >> > Contacts
> >> > folder?
> >>
> >>

>

02-03-2009

Yes...

A number of us have discovered that bug in WLM.

DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor

"sixt7gt350" <sixt7gt350@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B6A4B9D6-BA82-4BB4-84F1-C4B37A31D6D8@xxxxxx

Quote:

>I have XP.
> My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version
> of
> Live Mail.
> I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts.
> As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save.
> They saved to the updated version Live Mail.
> Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over.
>
>
> "Ildhund" wrote:
>

Quote:

>> This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread
>> a few days ago:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q=
>> The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a
>> feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows
>> Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing
>> contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for
>> current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista,
>> then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same
>> form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are
>> not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which
>> can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two
>> possible ways out of the dilemma:
>> (a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then
>> uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at
>> http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry
>> Download WLMail v.12 from
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950
>> and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's
>> Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to
>> CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again.
>> (b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each
>> ..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage
>> those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import
>> them into and save CSV.
>> (c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that
>> Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend
>> with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the
>> appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that
>> mechanism doesn't exist, then tough.
>> [(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and
>> addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names
>> again.]
>>
>> A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing
>> the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back.
>> --
>> Noel
>>
>> "AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx

Quote:

>> > I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files
>> > in a
>> > folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is
>> > different in XP,
>> > I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application
>> > can find
>> > them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my
>> > contacts so that
>> > I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with
>> > Live Mail.
>> >
>> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To
>> >> this
>> >> thread...
>> >>
>> >> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost
>> >> > contacts after
>> >> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail.
>> >> >
>> >> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not
>> >> > utilizing
>> >> > the
>> >> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these
>> >> > contacts were gone
>> >> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN
>> >> > Messenger.
>> >> >
>> >> > Here is how I fixed this problem:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR
>> >> > USER
>> >> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR
>> >> > EMAIL\real
>> >> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed
>> >> > in WL Mail
>> >> > as
>> >> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name.
>> >> >
>> >> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to
>> >> > import to the
>> >> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts.
>> >> >
>> >> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button
>> >> > in lower
>> >> > left
>> >> > corner of the screen).
>> >> >
>> >> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select
>> >> > Import --> Address
>> >> > Book for Current Windows User.
>> >> >
>> >> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and
>> >> > you will
>> >> > now
>> >> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did.
>> >> >
>> >> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have
>> >> > done and I
>> >> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to
>> >> > struggle with this
>> >> > less than elegant work-around.
>> >>
>> >> ===================================
>> >>
>> >> GK wrote:
>> >> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202
>> >> > in order to
>> >> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded
>> >> > through the
>> >> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update,
>> >> > which ran
>> >> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing.
>> >> > The only
>> >> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these
>> >> > are only
>> >> > my
>> >> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information
>> >> > in my old
>> >> > WL
>> >> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there
>> >> > some way to
>> >> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail
>> >> > Contacts
>> >> > folder?
>> >>
>> >>

>>

02-03-2009

Do you mean groups of contacts/categories(the latter is now the correct term) present in a Live ID in WLM12 that were also visible
in WLMsgr and/or the web interface(contacts.live.com) prior to installing Windows Live Mail 14 were not present after installing
WLM in any place(WLM 14, the web interface or WLMsgr14) ?

Was WLMsgr 12 present and installed prior to installing WLM14 ?
Was WLMsg14 installed to replace WLMsgr 12 during the same WLM14 installation ?

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"sixt7gt350" <sixt7gt350@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B6A4B9D6-BA82-4BB4-84F1-C4B37A31D6D8@xxxxxx

Quote:

> I have XP.
> My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version of
> Live Mail.
> I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts.
> As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save.
> They saved to the updated version Live Mail.
> Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over.
>

jyc1958 · 07-03-2009

Hi, am using XP and also lost all my Contacts after upgrading WLM. Any possible solution to recover my lost Contacts easily? Thank you.

01-14-2009	#1 (permalink)
GK n/a posts	Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only my MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old WL Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts folder? -- GK Oz
My System Specs

01-14-2009	#2 (permalink)
D. Spencer Hines n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Yep... Same thing happened to me. Still no joy. Have you tried to import your Address Book [.WAB] or a .CSV file? -- DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Deus Vult "GK" <GK@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3793F948-F6AF-4300-A097-6BCF374B10BD@xxxxxx Quote: >I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only > my > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old > WL > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts > folder? > -- > GK Oz
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01-14-2009	#3 (permalink)
GK n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Where do I find the old WL Mail Address Book? -- GK Oz "D. Spencer Hines" wrote: Quote: > Yep... > > Same thing happened to me. > > Still no joy. > > Have you tried to import your Address Book [.WAB] or a .CSV file? > -- > DSH > Lux et Veritas et Libertas > Deus Vult > > "GK" <GK@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:3793F948-F6AF-4300-A097-6BCF374B10BD@xxxxxx > Quote: > >I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to > > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the > > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran > > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only > > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only > > my > > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old > > WL > > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to > > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts > > folder? > > -- > > GK Oz > > >
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01-14-2009	#4 (permalink)
PA Bear [MS MVP] n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To this thread... Quote: > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost contacts after > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail. > > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not utilizing > the > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these contacts were gone > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN Messenger. > > Here is how I fixed this problem: > > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR USER > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR EMAIL\real > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed in WL Mail > as > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name. > > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to import to the > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts. > > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button in lower > left > corner of the screen). > > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select Import --> Address > Book for Current Windows User. > > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and you will > now > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did. > > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have done and I > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to struggle with this > less than elegant work-around. =================================== GK wrote: Quote: > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only > my > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old > WL > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts > folder?
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01-22-2009	#5 (permalink)
AB in ELP n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files in a folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is different in XP, I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application can find them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my contacts so that I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with Live Mail. "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: Quote: > Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To this > thread... > Quote: > > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost contacts after > > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail. > > > > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not utilizing > > the > > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these contacts were gone > > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN Messenger. > > > > Here is how I fixed this problem: > > > > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR USER > > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR EMAIL\real > > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed in WL Mail > > as > > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name. > > > > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to import to the > > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts. > > > > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button in lower > > left > > corner of the screen). > > > > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select Import --> Address > > Book for Current Windows User. > > > > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and you will > > now > > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did. > > > > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have done and I > > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to struggle with this > > less than elegant work-around. > > =================================== > > GK wrote: Quote: > > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 in order to > > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded through the > > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, which ran > > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. The only > > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these are only > > my > > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information in my old > > WL > > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there some way to > > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail Contacts > > folder? > >
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01-22-2009	#6 (permalink)
Ildhund n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread a few days ago: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q= The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista, then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two possible ways out of the dilemma: (a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry Download WLMail v.12 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950 and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again. (b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each ..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import them into and save CSV. (c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that mechanism doesn't exist, then tough. [(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names again.] A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back. -- Noel "AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx Quote: > I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files > in a > folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is > different in XP, > I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application > can find > them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my > contacts so that > I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with > Live Mail. > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: > Quote: >> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To >> this >> thread... >> Quote: >> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost >> > contacts after >> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail. >> > >> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not >> > utilizing >> > the >> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these >> > contacts were gone >> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN >> > Messenger. >> > >> > Here is how I fixed this problem: >> > >> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR >> > USER >> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR >> > EMAIL\real >> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed >> > in WL Mail >> > as >> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name. >> > >> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to >> > import to the >> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts. >> > >> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button >> > in lower >> > left >> > corner of the screen). >> > >> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select >> > Import --> Address >> > Book for Current Windows User. >> > >> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and >> > you will >> > now >> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did. >> > >> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have >> > done and I >> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to >> > struggle with this >> > less than elegant work-around. >> >> =================================== >> >> GK wrote: Quote: >> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 >> > in order to >> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded >> > through the >> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, >> > which ran >> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. >> > The only >> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these >> > are only >> > my >> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information >> > in my old >> > WL >> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there >> > some way to >> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail >> > Contacts >> > folder? >> >>
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02-02-2009	#7 (permalink)
sixt7gt350 n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade I have XP. My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version of Live Mail. I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts. As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save. They saved to the updated version Live Mail. Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over. "Ildhund" wrote: Quote: > This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread > a few days ago: > http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q= > The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a > feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows > Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing > contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for > current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista, > then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same > form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are > not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which > can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two > possible ways out of the dilemma: > (a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then > uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at > http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry > Download WLMail v.12 from > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950 > and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's > Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to > CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again. > (b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each > ..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage > those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import > them into and save CSV. > (c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that > Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend > with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the > appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that > mechanism doesn't exist, then tough. > [(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and > addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names > again.] > > A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing > the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back. > -- > Noel > > "AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx Quote: > > I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files > > in a > > folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is > > different in XP, > > I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application > > can find > > them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my > > contacts so that > > I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with > > Live Mail. > > > > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: > > Quote: > >> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To > >> this > >> thread... > >> > >> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost > >> > contacts after > >> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail. > >> > > >> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not > >> > utilizing > >> > the > >> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these > >> > contacts were gone > >> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN > >> > Messenger. > >> > > >> > Here is how I fixed this problem: > >> > > >> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR > >> > USER > >> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR > >> > EMAIL\real > >> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed > >> > in WL Mail > >> > as > >> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name. > >> > > >> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to > >> > import to the > >> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts. > >> > > >> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button > >> > in lower > >> > left > >> > corner of the screen). > >> > > >> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select > >> > Import --> Address > >> > Book for Current Windows User. > >> > > >> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and > >> > you will > >> > now > >> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did. > >> > > >> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have > >> > done and I > >> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to > >> > struggle with this > >> > less than elegant work-around. > >> > >> =================================== > >> > >> GK wrote: > >> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 > >> > in order to > >> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded > >> > through the > >> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, > >> > which ran > >> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. > >> > The only > >> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these > >> > are only > >> > my > >> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information > >> > in my old > >> > WL > >> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there > >> > some way to > >> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail > >> > Contacts > >> > folder? > >> > >> >
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02-03-2009	#8 (permalink)
D. Spencer Hines n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Yes... A number of us have discovered that bug in WLM. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor "sixt7gt350" <sixt7gt350@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B6A4B9D6-BA82-4BB4-84F1-C4B37A31D6D8@xxxxxx Quote: >I have XP. > My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version > of > Live Mail. > I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts. > As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save. > They saved to the updated version Live Mail. > Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over. > > > "Ildhund" wrote: > Quote: >> This is the scenario discussed in the 'Contacts: folder size' thread >> a few days ago: >> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96a2bfa0a83?q= >> The solution proposed by GK works because Vista incorporates a >> feature called Windows Contacts, whereas XP only has the Windows >> Address Book associated with Outlook Express. When importing >> contacts into WLMail, the option to import the 'address book for >> current Windows user' reflects this difference. If the OS is Vista, >> then this refers to Windows Contacts, which are stored in the same >> form as they were in WLMail v.12. So GK could do it. XP users are >> not so lucky, because the only application they have access to which >> can read those files is WLMail v.12 or earlier. There seem to be two >> possible ways out of the dilemma: >> (a) Copy the Default folder to %userprofile%/Contacts, then >> uninstall WLMail v.14 using the Scorched Earth procedure at >> http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!226.entry >> Download WLMail v.12 from >> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...C-51E13D11A950 >> and install it. Copy the Default folder back into the store folder's >> Contacts folder. Then, without signing in, export the contacts to >> CSV ready for importing elsewhere. Uninstall WLMail again. >> (b) (Winston's suggestion) Write some code to have Excel open each >> ..Contact file and extract the XML data into a spreadsheet. Massage >> those data into a form acceptable to the app you're hoping to import >> them into and save CSV. >> (c) A third possibility has just occurred to me, assuming that >> Vista's Windows Contacts has an export mechanism - find a friend >> with a Vista machine and copy the Default contacts to the >> appropriate folder on that machine, then export them to CSV. If that >> mechanism doesn't exist, then tough. >> [(d) ...and the fourth - type out all 1,000 contacts with names and >> addresses and phone numbers and yomis and grandmothers' maiden names >> again.] >> >> A complete disaster not foreseen by those responsible for writing >> the migration bits of the v.14 installation. I want my money back. >> -- >> Noel >> >> "AB in ELP" <AB in ELP@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:1D9BEEF9-11EC-40C6-BAF5-3029BCCF6C5F@xxxxxx Quote: >> > I have same problem but in XP. I can find my old "*.contact" files >> > in a >> > folder named "Default" but since the directory structure is >> > different in XP, >> > I don't know where to copy them so that the Contacts application >> > can find >> > them. Help! What I really want to accomplish is to rescue my >> > contacts so that >> > I can export them and my emails back into Outlook and be done with >> > Live Mail. >> > >> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote: >> > >> >> Answering his own question in NEW thread instead of a Reply To >> >> this >> >> thread... >> >> >> >> > Hopefully this will help some of you struggling with lost >> >> > contacts after >> >> > updating to the latest version of Windows Live Mail. >> >> > >> >> > My contacts were all locally created and stored on my PC - not >> >> > utilizing >> >> > the >> >> > MSN online contact list. After my update, all of these >> >> > contacts were gone >> >> > and the only contacts visible were the contacts created in MSN >> >> > Messenger. >> >> > >> >> > Here is how I fixed this problem: >> >> > >> >> > 1. Open an explorer window and navigate to the C:\Users\YOUR >> >> > USER >> >> > NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Contacts\YOUR >> >> > EMAIL\real >> >> > folder. You will see all the contacts that previously existed >> >> > in WL Mail >> >> > as >> >> > NAME.CONTACT files where NAME is the contact name. >> >> > >> >> > 2. Select and copy all the .CONTACT files that you want to >> >> > import to the >> >> > folder: C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\Contacts. >> >> > >> >> > 3. Open WL Mail and go to the Contacts window (contacts button >> >> > in lower >> >> > left >> >> > corner of the screen). >> >> > >> >> > 4. From the FILE menu of the Contacts window, select >> >> > Import --> Address >> >> > Book for Current Windows User. >> >> > >> >> > 5. The system should import all the contacts in the folder and >> >> > you will >> >> > now >> >> > have access to them in WL Mail - at least I did. >> >> > >> >> > Hope this helps. This is something that the update should have >> >> > done and I >> >> > hope this is very quickly fixed so others don't have to >> >> > struggle with this >> >> > less than elegant work-around. >> >> >> >> =================================== >> >> >> >> GK wrote: >> >> > I just updated my WL Mail to the latest version 14.0.8050.1202 >> >> > in order to >> >> > get the Calendar functionality. The update was downloaded >> >> > through the >> >> > Windows Live website using their installer. After the update, >> >> > which ran >> >> > without any problems, all of my WL Mail contacts are missing. >> >> > The only >> >> > contacts available are when I sign in to Windows Live and these >> >> > are only >> >> > my >> >> > MSN Live contacts. I have a significant amount of information >> >> > in my old >> >> > WL >> >> > Mail contacts and really need to recover this data. Is there >> >> > some way to >> >> > import it, or can you point the program to the original WL Mail >> >> > Contacts >> >> > folder? >> >> >> >> >>
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02-03-2009	#9 (permalink)
...winston n/a posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Do you mean groups of contacts/categories(the latter is now the correct term) present in a Live ID in WLM12 that were also visible in WLMsgr and/or the web interface(contacts.live.com) prior to installing Windows Live Mail 14 were not present after installing WLM in any place(WLM 14, the web interface or WLMsgr14) ? Was WLMsgr 12 present and installed prior to installing WLM14 ? Was WLMsg14 installed to replace WLMsgr 12 during the same WLM14 installation ? -- ...winston ms-mvp mail "sixt7gt350" <sixt7gt350@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B6A4B9D6-BA82-4BB4-84F1-C4B37A31D6D8@xxxxxx Quote: > I have XP. > My wife lost all of her contacts in the upgrade from the previous version of > Live Mail. > I found the folder of previous Live Mail contacts. > As I opened each in explorer, I was given the opportunity to save. > They saved to the updated version Live Mail. > Groups, OTOH, didn't transfer directly over. >
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07-03-2009	#10 (permalink)
jyc1958 windows xp 32 2 posts	Re: Lost WLM Contacts During Upgrade Hi, am using XP and also lost all my Contacts after upgrading WLM. Any possible solution to recover my lost Contacts easily? Thank you.
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