Windows Live Mail Prob's

Hi.Running windows 7 and using windows live mail,Was working fine until today seemed to have lost all my emails,Also had subfolders ie Orders,Vital info,My Family etc.I had a backup in my documents but cannot find a way to get them all back,At the moment I just have my email address and under that Inbox.Sent.Deleted.draft.But all are empty.
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I did get round it eventually but it was a bit of a bldy headache,I imported the emails from my backup but could not find them eventually cam across **sub folders and my emails were in there. is that the way that wlm is supposed to work??. What a nightmare.

I opened it and it was all blank lost all my emails,But got it back up and running as I had a backup but it was a nightmare to get it all working again. Now apart from that I would like to have some advice on how to set up the WLM I don't mean the email side,What I'm looking at is the main page. This is what I have:I have two emails one hotmail and one orange mail.Now under the orange mail heading on the far left I have sub folders 1--20.eg 1.Amazon 2.Ebay 3.Orders and so on. Would that be the correct way to set up the WLM main page,As when I lost the last lot of emails when I imported them they all went into sub folders but not the sub folders that I have set up.I had a problem finding them.When found I had to make new sub folders and copy and paste from the imported folders to the folders that I have under my email address on the far left. Am I doing this correct or incorrect.Can I please have some help here from people that are using the dreaded email. Many thanks.

Hi flogit, I have a folder on an external hdd, called Emails. In it I make sub folders named for type of mail I want to keep. All I do is when getting an email I want to keep, is, open it, click on file>save as (name of my choice) & save to desktop (for easy finding) the I right click it, drag to where I want, select (move here).
There are other methods for users who get large amounts of mail if your interested.

Yea Thanks Any further info I would be grateful.

Hi flogit,
Here's how to back up inbox.
Make a folder called-Inbox Start Date/End Date
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1 look in the inbox & delete unneeded items.
2 Click File>Export>Messages. Select M WLM
3 Browse to the new folder. next
4 Tick 'Selected folders' Click on 'Inbox'
Job Done
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When you open the saved file to see the saved emails,(inbox) highlighting one tells you its details in the Status Bar, then click to open & read it. You don't have to import them into WLM.
Once done, empty your Inbox ready to start again.
Save the file in a secure place.

Roderunner,many thanks for your help,Its been a good bit of advice,i have my WLM now all sorted out.
Thanks.

flogit said:

Roderunner,many thanks for your help,Its been a good bit of advice,i have my WLM now all sorted out.
Thanks.

Your very welcome. If you use the option to back up all folders from 1 account, it works just as well with them in separate folders it the backed up file.

Many thanks all,All up & running now,Glad of your help.