Hello, shorlty after installing windows 7 I moved my windows live mail
storage to my Drive D data drive. I have discovered that while there is a
CONTACTS diretcory on the D drive that windows live mail DOES NOT store its
contacts in the contacts folder.

If I do a backup image of my C drive, reboot, load windows live mail, open
contacts and add a new contact, then restore my C drive I find the new
contact is no longer there. This indicates to me that while windows live mail
IS storing most of its data on the D drive it IS NOT storing the conacts
there, if it were a drive C restore would not remove any new contacts.

It looks like windows live mail is storing its contacts somewhere on the C
drive.
Ths is idiotic since I changed its data storage to drive D some time ago.

Anyone know why when you change windows live mails storage diretcory to
another drive it still stores its contacts on the C drive ?

Where on the C drive it stores them is a mystery. I have set the folder
options to show all system files ect. I can find a couple contacts
directories on the C drive but they are empty.

Thanks

Tom

The Windows Live Mail contacts are stored in a .edb file under a few folders
under
C:\Users\(yourlogin)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Contacts
These folders are protected operating system files, so you have to turn on
viewing of those to see them.



--
Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail



"tdkinkley" <tdkinkley@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:68F6BD6B-D5FC-4D96-B3B0-6D78556A8223@newsgroup

> Hello, shorlty after installing windows 7 I moved my windows live mail
> storage to my Drive D data drive. I have discovered that while there is a
> CONTACTS diretcory on the D drive that windows live mail DOES NOT store
> its
> contacts in the contacts folder.
>
> If I do a backup image of my C drive, reboot, load windows live mail, open
> contacts and add a new contact, then restore my C drive I find the new
> contact is no longer there. This indicates to me that while windows live
> mail
> IS storing most of its data on the D drive it IS NOT storing the conacts
> there, if it were a drive C restore would not remove any new contacts.
>
> It looks like windows live mail is storing its contacts somewhere on the C
> drive.
> Ths is idiotic since I changed its data storage to drive D some time ago.
>
> Anyone know why when you change windows live mails storage diretcory to
> another drive it still stores its contacts on the C drive ?
>
> Where on the C drive it stores them is a mystery. I have set the folder
> options to show all system files ect. I can find a couple contacts
> directories on the C drive but they are empty.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>

.... and you can't move them out of your %userprofile% because they're used by more than one program - i.e. Mail and Messenger. If you try, WLMail will re-create the folder in %userprofile%.
--
Noel

"Dave" <Dave@newsgroup> wrote in message news:uZi2MZ30KHA.5996@newsgroup

> The Windows Live Mail contacts are stored in a .edb file under a few folders
> under
> C:\Users\(yourlogin)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Contacts
> These folders are protected operating system files, so you have to turn on
> viewing of those to see them.
>
>
>
> --
> Dave N.
> MS-MVP (Mail)
> Windows 7 Ultimate
> http://download.live.com/wlmail
>
>
>
> "tdkinkley" <tdkinkley@newsgroup> wrote in message
> news:68F6BD6B-D5FC-4D96-B3B0-6D78556A8223@newsgroup

>> Hello, shorlty after installing windows 7 I moved my windows live mail
>> storage to my Drive D data drive. I have discovered that while there is a
>> CONTACTS diretcory on the D drive that windows live mail DOES NOT store
>> its
>> contacts in the contacts folder.
>>
>> If I do a backup image of my C drive, reboot, load windows live mail, open
>> contacts and add a new contact, then restore my C drive I find the new
>> contact is no longer there. This indicates to me that while windows live
>> mail
>> IS storing most of its data on the D drive it IS NOT storing the conacts
>> there, if it were a drive C restore would not remove any new contacts.
>>
>> It looks like windows live mail is storing its contacts somewhere on the C
>> drive.
>> Ths is idiotic since I changed its data storage to drive D some time ago.
>>
>> Anyone know why when you change windows live mails storage diretcory to
>> another drive it still stores its contacts on the C drive ?
>>
>> Where on the C drive it stores them is a mystery. I have set the folder
>> options to show all system files ect. I can find a couple contacts
>> directories on the C drive but they are empty.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>

Backup your contacts to a *.csv file.
While one can copy the contact.edb database file for archive purposes, using it to replace an existing will most likely result in
duplicate categories(groups) within your contacts or a messages about corruption.


--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"tdkinkley" <tdkinkley@newsgroup> wrote in message news:68F6BD6B-D5FC-4D96-B3B0-6D78556A8223@newsgroup

> Hello, shorlty after installing windows 7 I moved my windows live mail
> storage to my Drive D data drive. I have discovered that while there is a
> CONTACTS diretcory on the D drive that windows live mail DOES NOT store its
> contacts in the contacts folder.
>
> If I do a backup image of my C drive, reboot, load windows live mail, open
> contacts and add a new contact, then restore my C drive I find the new
> contact is no longer there. This indicates to me that while windows live mail
> IS storing most of its data on the D drive it IS NOT storing the conacts
> there, if it were a drive C restore would not remove any new contacts.
>
> It looks like windows live mail is storing its contacts somewhere on the C
> drive.
> Ths is idiotic since I changed its data storage to drive D some time ago.
>
> Anyone know why when you change windows live mails storage diretcory to
> another drive it still stores its contacts on the C drive ?
>
> Where on the C drive it stores them is a mystery. I have set the folder
> options to show all system files ect. I can find a couple contacts
> directories on the C drive but they are empty.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>