Vista - Email import/viewing problem from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mai

I have upgraded from Windows Mail to Live Windows Mail and have imported my
emails and contacts. The contacts have worked ok but I cannot find any of my
imported emails.

I have looked in the storage folders and imported folders as well as all
other folders but there is no sign of any of my emails.

Please can anyone help me out here.
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Paul

"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:07A9A1EA-365C-416B-8E6D-C29884F38C7C@xxxxxxDo you still believe it to be an 'upgrade'?

You left us, so try asking your question over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>HTH?

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP : Mail.
[DTS] UK.

If you did a manual import, those emails should have been placed
in a folder under Storage folders. You can probably get more help
by posting this issue in the WLM newsgroup.
Click on the following link, which should automatically open in your
news reader:

news://msnews.microft.com/microsoft....e.mail.desktop

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:07A9A1EA-365C-416B-8E6D-C29884F38C7C@xxxxxx

" mac" <macknever@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:9B6071BB-268C-4F1B-89B8-32113F836BC2@xxxxxxDo I detect a shade of hostility towards WLM? ;-)
There are always a few who have import/export problems, but that is
not the norm.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%236bAyaCdIHA.5900@xxxxxx
What on earth gave you that impression Gary? :-(

Windows Mail was shipped as 'THE' mail program within 100's of millions of
copies of the various Vista systems, (many more still on the shelf, world
wide), yet its users are left out in the cold, regarding support from M$!

Switching mail Applications is not the way that those users should be
directed to do.

M$ should show there face in here, and help out, and get some of the issues
fixed!

Remember that it took 9 months to get a fix released for the stuck messages
problem, an MVP even created a FREE method to correct that problem in less
than 2 months after release.
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP : Mail.
[DTS] UK.

" mac" <macknever@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:78796D71-2C4C-4FE2-A8EB-E75E6EEDA47C@xxxxxxWhat Microsoft "should" do, and what they actually will do are two different
things. Wishing that things would be different is not going to make it so.
For whatever reason, Microsoft chose to change course in midstream.
All we can do is react to that reality and adapt accordingly.
In addition, there are a grand total of zero fixes for Windows Mail in Vista's SP1.
If that isn't a sign of abandonment, I don't know what is.
Clearly, Microsoft doesn't want to support two different free email programs
that do approximately the same thing. Going forward, I expect that only
WLM will receive further development and support. In my opinion, we do
Vista users a disfavor by not gently steering them towards WLM.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)

Paul,
Rather than force you to the WLM group, since it may be the method used to export in Windows Mail.
We'll start here and crosspost to the Windows Live Mail group. Future questions can be addressed in that group.

Here are two separate methods to move messages out of Vista's Windows Mail(WM) into Windows Live Mail(WLM)
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Method 1:
Create a Blank Folder on your desktop(e.g. WMExport)
Windows Mail
File/Export/Messages
Select Windows Mail
Click Next
Click Browse and navigate to the folder on the Desktop(choose the folder, do not open the folder)
Click Select Folder
Click Next(if the folder is not empty go back to the beginning)
Select All Folders or Selected Folders
Click Next
Wait for it to to Prompt 'Your messages were exported in Windows Mail format'
Click Finish

Open Windows Live Mail
Ensure you have setup all email accounts
Click File\Import\Messages\
Select Windows Mail
Click Next
Click Browse and navigate to the folder(e.g. WMExport)
Click on the folder
Click OK(the Location of Message dialog box will now contain the correct path and folder)
Click Next
Click All or Selected Folders
Click Next
Wait for it to complete
The Windows Live Mail Import Dialog box will appear with the prompt ' Your Messages were imported in Windows Mail Format'
Click Finish

Scroll to Windows Live Mail Storage folders\Imported Folder
Click to expand
Drag the messages in each subfolder to the appropriate account
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Method 2shorter but it can get messy with a large quantity of messages)
Create an new folder using Windows Explorer on the desktop or elsewhere, e.g. WMDragEml (if Vista --consider creating the folder in
a location your have full permission .e.g Desktop, Public etc)
Create subfolders in WMDragEml with identical names as the folders in your Windows Mail account(e.g Inbox, Outbox, Sent, etc)
Open Windows Mail
Resize each so that two windows are on the screen(one for the Explorer folder and one for Windows Mail)
Switch to Windows Mail and select messages from the Windows Mail folders(within Windows Mail, e.g. Inbox--note: Control A can be
used to Select All)
Drag those messages to the identical named subfolder in the earlier created Windows Explorer WMDragEml folder.
Repeat for each Windows Mail folder(Outbox, Sent,etc)
Close Windows Mail
Open Windows Live Mail
Resize again to show two windows--the Explorer folder and Windows Live Mail
Ensure an email account is created
Drag the messages from the Windows Explorer created WMDragEml folder to the like named folder in WLM

Once complete...verify all is well..once comfortable you can clean out the temporary created folders and the no longer used email
client.

FYI..in case you missed the reference to the other newsgroup, the correct newsgroup for Windows Live Mail is:
Windows Live Mail
Nntp:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...e.mail.desktop
Web-interface: Http
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...e.mail.desktop


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...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


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