Windows Live Mail
Currently recovering from a hard drive crash. My wife uses Windows Live Mail and has a large repository of emails. I'm having trouble finding a reliable source to download the program since Microsoft no longer supports it. As an alternative, is there an email app that will import Windows Live Mail data?
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Also having trouble finding the appdata folder for WLM. When I search for %appdata%, I don't see Windows Live Mail. I do see Windows Live Writer, which I didn't think I selected for download. Confused . . .
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Tried making a new location for the message store and then moving the backed up files to that location, but still didn't work. Any other ideas?
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When I open my user profile, I see no AppData folder. See atch screen shot.
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Also do not see StoreRoot in registry. See atch screen shot.
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Thanks for the support. I'm getting closer. The data files on the failed hard drive were still readable and were copied to a new hard drive. I copied all the Windows Live files from the backup to the Windows Live folder in the appdata/Microsoft directory. The MailMSMessgeStore folder was dated Dec 30, 2019, the day of the failure, but the newest messages I see in Windows Live Mail are Nov 2018. Not sure why. Any suggestions? Also I am not receiving any new emails. I've attached a screen shot of the server settings.
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On a related issue, why does Word uses Windows Live Mail (which isn't working) to share documents by email when Outlook or Windows 10 Mail are selected as default email apps?
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