Vista - Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail can't "save as" more than once

Whenever I try to save a message to my hard drive a second time, i.e.
overwriting the previous document, I get an error message saying that it is
unable to save. I used to be able to do this with Outlook Express. Is there a
way to fix this? Windows Live Mail has the same problem.

"SW" <SW@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:356F1099-3D13-446A-9377-ECC9FD56CF3B@xxxxxxDoes it still happen if you give the second save a different file name?

"robertmiles@xxxxxx" wrote:
No. It only happens when I'm overwriting the same file.

"SW" wrote:

"SW" <SW@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:356F1099-3D13-446A-9377-ECC9FD56CF3B@xxxxxx
Why not save it to your Drafts Folder within WM?
You can edit at your leisure from there.
Compose mail>Ctrl+S


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"mac" wrote:
Yes, I can do that. Thanks for the suggestion. I would rather do it by the
'save as' technique I mentioned, though, as that is what I've been doing for
about three years. It's what I'm used to, and it's what I feel secure doing.
Is there no fix for it? Essentially it is an error in the program, as it
comes up with a generic error message for no reason. It is something that
should be fixed regardless of one being able to save a message in the drafts
folder.

The obvious workaround is to use a unique filename each time.
It's not clear to me why you would use "Save As" so much.
If you explained why you need to do this, we may be able to suggest
a better way.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"SW" <SW@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:356F1099-3D13-446A-9377-ECC9FD56CF3B@xxxxxx

I use it as a word processor for work that is submitted to websites, so I am
resaving the file often.

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

I duplicated what you are seeing. When I attempted a second "Save As"
with the same filename, a "Confirm Save As" window popped up saying
something like "Windows Mail can't Save As, more than one xyz.eml already
exists. Do you want to replace it?"
I don't consider this an error. Windows always warns you when you are
about to overwrite an existing file.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"SW" <SW@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:CD5398B6-365B-4100-8B81-1A9B2D6892B1@xxxxxx

That isn't the error I'm talking about. Sometimes it saves, extremely rarely,
but nearly every time the message "Unable to Save the message. An Error has
occured" comes up.

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote: