Vista - Windows Mail - Messages

Bill,

I suppose alot is a subjective term, but I would Export any messages you want to save for good period of time to prevent from losing it. Usually anything over a 1000 or so will start to cause a delay when opening the folder they are stored in inside Windows Mail.

You will have to use your own judgement for the "Fix Vista" links. Just take a look at them and determine if you think you need to do them and that you are comfortable doing them. You should look to see if they have a way to undo the fix to be safe.

Enjoy your dinner,
Shawn

OK, thought I'd bring this back to life so I don't fir into "There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them" category...
New subscriber but have been reading a lot of good stuff on these forums...

I am about to give everything up with "Backup and Restore" of my message folders in Windows Mail.
I have used Outloox Express forever and have never had these issues, ever.
I moved to Vista with my new computer so hence, here I am.

What is happening is when i follow these great instructions (I mean that) and try to transfer to my laptop not everything follows. I may have 2,3 or even 4 "Imported Folders" (most empty), AND some emails within the folders are missing.
I have no problem sorting, dragging and dropping everything to its proper location but as I said, things are missing (not feeling secure here)!!!

Besides that, it is a lot of work.

I also get while "Exporting" to my external drive a message that stops about half way through that sez something like this:

Property Loss
The file xxxx has properties that cannot be copied to a new location.
[check box] Do this for all current items (231 found)

Has anyone and anyone help resolve these issues?

Hoping so...

johnny-c

Hi Johnny-C,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

I have not had any experience on this problem. but this link is an excellent resource for it. I hope that it can help you.

backup

Shawn

Thanx Shawn,
This is a great forum...
I looked at that site before and it was pretty much over my head. I will go back and look at it again...

Thanx for getting back to me.

Your welcome Johnny-C. I would just read it through a couple of times to get familiar with it. It usually looks harder than it actually is.
You might also post a question on this in the Windows Mail newsgroup to. I'm sure you will get a solution there to.

Hope you can get it resolved,
Shawn

I will do that Shawn...
I am re-reading it now and yes it makes more sense than I expected...
Have a good one and thanx again.
See you around.

Excellent tip, thanks, everytime i format i lose all my mail, not anymore! hehe (:0)

Your welcome Mafia Boy.

I just love the tips and tut im getting from this site, nice work, i just love using Vista

I usually set my mail up to leave messages on the server for about month before removing them so that way if I reformat when I check my mail for the first time afterwards...I get a months worth of mail. Just easier that way..to me