Windows Mail
Posted by admin on Nov 19th, 2006
Hello, troubled users.Using Windows Mail with Vista, I cannot: Send or receive email regularly. View my email folders, though I know they have lots of mail in them. Delete any of the items in my 'Deleted Mail' folder.Does anyone have solutions for these problems? Please, Microsoft this is unforgivable.Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Nov 24th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
"ChinaBud" Windows Mail has a newer (to them) form of database. Each email is stored separately.Do the following:1) Open Control Panel then select Folder Options. a) click on the Views tab b) Select "Show hidden files and folders" c) Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" d) click APPLY then OK. e) Close Control Panel2) From Windows Mail a) Click on the Tools menu b) click on Options c) click on the Advanced tab d) click the Maintenance button e) click the Store Folders button. f) make a note of the location of the message stores. It will be something like: C:\Users\<account name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail g) close Windows Mail3) Open Windows ExplorerWhen it opens, you will see a small black triangle next to the user account name. Click it to collapse it.For the following, the triangle will not appear till you put the mouse over the element in question.Move the mouse to the "Computer" line. A triangle will appear, click on it to expand it.You should see something like "Local Disk (C:)"Click on the triangle to expand it.Locate "Users" and click on the triangle next to it to expand it.Locate <username> and click on the triangle next to it to expand it.Locate "AppData" and click on the triangle next to it to expand it.Locate "Local" and click on the triangle next to it to expand it. Locate "Microsoft" and click on the triangle next to it to expand it.Now, in the right window pane, locate Windows Mail. Click on it.In the left window pane, scroll upward till you see "Local Disk (C:)"Now, in the right window pane, hold them left mouse button down on the Windows Mail folder. Drag it to the "Local Disk (C:)" and release the mouse button. Select MOVE Here.......Now, this may take a bit to get done, depending upon how much mail is there. Give it time.Now, when it's done, create a new folder name Windows Mail to replace the moved one in the C:\Users\<account name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft folder.Now start Windows Mail. It will be empty but that's no biggie.Create a couple of folders in Windows Mail and name them Old Mail, Old Sent. Click on the Old Mail folder to open it. Resize Windows Mail so you can see both Windows Explorer and Windows Mail.In the Windows Mail folder you will see a Local Folders folder, click the triangle to expand it.Locate the Inbox folder. In this folder you will see a lot of .eml files. These are the old emails. Drag and drop ONLY the .eml files to the Old Mail folder in Windows Mail.Do similar for Sent Items to the Old Sent folder.Now, see if Windows Mail works for you.
Nov 26th, 2006 at 04:40 am
Thanks DGuess..that worked.Russ
Nov 30th, 2006 at 02:01 am
"Russ" wrote: Well it didn't work for me. Couldn't find the socalled "left window pane!
Dec 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Just copy the path to the clipboard from OE and Paste it into Start Run. "gdkgeo"
Dec 4th, 2006 at 06:47 pm
"gdkgeo" Without going back thru what I had posted, I'm guessingit's the left windows pane on regeditThere are two, left and right. The left has HKEY_CURRENT_USER and others listed, the right doesn't, it shows what values are stored in those subkeys. ..
Dec 8th, 2006 at 02:18 pm
This is very helpful, DGuess, thank you.However, it is extraordinary that we have to go through such a complex workaround to solve a very simple problem. Didn't anybody in Seattle ever try this thing to see if it worked?WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING, MICROSOFT? You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, you really should.And by the way, I still can't empty my Deleted Items folder, but it's too late in the day for me to worry about that now. I'll try again to solve Microsoft's problems tomorrow.Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. "DGuess" wrote: