Windows Live Mail 2011 Doesn't Back Up All Email

I briefly tried Windows Live Mail 2011 after having used the 2009 version since it was released. I had one problem, however. When I used the export email option to back up my email to an external hard drive, it didn't copy all of my email over. I selected the option of all folders, so what's going on here? This never happened with the 2009 version. I guess a work-around would be to copy the storage folder over to the external drive, but the export option should work. Any ideas? Thanks.

Peter Dryton said:

I briefly tried Windows Live Mail 2011 after having used the 2009 version since it was released. I had one problem, however. When I used the export email option to back up my email to an external hard drive, it didn't copy all of my email over. I selected the option of all folders, so what's going on here? This never happened with the 2009 version. I guess a work-around would be to copy the storage folder over to the external drive, but the export option should work. Any ideas? Thanks.

I used WLM 2009 and WLM 2011 and they function the same. What is the folder setup you are trying to export?


Ken J

I'm trying to export the same folders in WLM 2011 that I did in WLM 2009. When I made the move to 2011, they were all there, but again, when doing the export in 2011, they're not all copied over to the external drive.