Windows Live Mail 2012 export to Outlook, crashes on specific email. How do I find it?
Hello, I want to export several thousand emails from Windows Live Mail 2012 to Outlook. I'm trying to use WLM's inbuilt Export to Exchange feature. There are 1,020 emails in Inbox, and then there are loads of folders within the Inbox, with another 4000, roughly. The process begins fine, and when reaches email number 684 of the Inbox, out of 1,020 (always the same email), WLM crashes, and the process halted. I've heard of other people having the same problem as well, and when they try to open the offending email in WLM, they get an error - which suggests corruption in the email. However I have no idea how they found which email it was that wouldn't open. How can I tell which email number 684 is, so that I can just delete this and carry on. I obviously can't open every email in my Inbox.
Any ideas?
I know there are 3rd party paid apps to do the migration for me, but I'd like to see if I can do it this way first.
Thanks,
Any ideas?
I know there are 3rd party paid apps to do the migration for me, but I'd like to see if I can do it this way first.
Thanks,
First, create a backup of the WLM data store folder (!!!)
Then, follow this article to repair the WLM data:
https://support.nettally.com/mail/windowslivemail-fix.asp
Then, try the export again.
Then, follow this article to repair the WLM data:
https://support.nettally.com/mail/windowslivemail-fix.asp
Then, try the export again.
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Will that tool preserve the mail folders?
Repairing the store will.
Repairing the store will.
No. The free tool imports EML files from one selected folder. The commercial advanced version of the utility will preserve the original folder structure.
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Hi thanks for the suggestions...
I tried the esentutl repair option, and it saud that it had completed, although it appeared that the whole database was corrupted when I went back into WLM. But I've just read the bottom section now with the file premissions, and although the error from WLM was different to that, I'll give this a try tonight because it might work.
Hi Alexei, the advanced version of your software sounds like what I need. How does it deal with corrupt emails when found? Does it skip them, or does it attempt to repair? I've tried the native WLM export for specific email folders, many different ones, and the crash happens on several of them, so it appears that quite a few of the emails are corrupt. I would need to keep the folder structure, because there are loads of folders inside Inbox - would the version that I'd get with the $15 Single Utility Licence be sufficient for what I need?
Thanks.
I tried the esentutl repair option, and it saud that it had completed, although it appeared that the whole database was corrupted when I went back into WLM. But I've just read the bottom section now with the file premissions, and although the error from WLM was different to that, I'll give this a try tonight because it might work.
Hi Alexei, the advanced version of your software sounds like what I need. How does it deal with corrupt emails when found? Does it skip them, or does it attempt to repair? I've tried the native WLM export for specific email folders, many different ones, and the crash happens on several of them, so it appears that quite a few of the emails are corrupt. I would need to keep the folder structure, because there are loads of folders inside Inbox - would the version that I'd get with the $15 Single Utility Licence be sufficient for what I need?
Thanks.
How does it deal with corrupt emails when found? Does it skip them, or does it attempt to repair?It reports and skips them. And yes, Single Utility License is enough.
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Well I still didn't get any luck with the mail store restore, even after sorting out the permissions. I bought a licence for Alexei's program and it worked a treat. Thanks. The only thing that I would suggest as a feature request is that it takes the names of the folder names inside Windows Live Mail, not the folder names in Windows Explorer.
For some reason, for all the folders that are over, I think, 8 or 10 characters in length, the folder that Windows Live Mail creates for it in Windows Explorer is truncated, with a random 4 character hex suffix is given. For example if a folder is called "Catalogue Numbers" in Windows Live Mail, then the corresponding folder in Windows Explorer is "Catalogu ffe5".
Alexei it would be nice if your program was able to read the actual folder names in Windows Live Mail, rather than the Windows folder names, because when I did the import into Outlook I had about 50 folders that I had to rename with the full names.
Cheers.
For some reason, for all the folders that are over, I think, 8 or 10 characters in length, the folder that Windows Live Mail creates for it in Windows Explorer is truncated, with a random 4 character hex suffix is given. For example if a folder is called "Catalogue Numbers" in Windows Live Mail, then the corresponding folder in Windows Explorer is "Catalogu ffe5".
Alexei it would be nice if your program was able to read the actual folder names in Windows Live Mail, rather than the Windows folder names, because when I did the import into Outlook I had about 50 folders that I had to rename with the full names.
Cheers.
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Thank you for the suggestion, we'll consider to implement this feature!
Try to create a new folder in your WLM and drag and drop 50 emails are at one time to the new folder.
https://www.lifewire.com/create-outlook-mail-folders-1173441
If the drag and drop process encounters a problem, the corrupted email should be within those 50 emails.
Then reduce the number of selected emails to a smaller number and you should be able to locate the corrupted one.