Windows live mail help

Wannsee · 23 Jul 2010

Hi Guy's

I had a Sony Vaio that due to a power surge cooked the Mother board. I managed to save the hard drive and now have it in a caddy. My problem is that all my emails are still on it and for the life of me I cannot work out how to retrive them. The main thing I need is the attachments that some of them have.

I have another machine running Win 7. Can I copy the mail & attachments from the Hard drive to my Windows live mail on my other machine? I guess this is all very simple but I wish I knew how!!!

Many thanks in advance

Martin

derekimo · 23 Jul 2010

Welcome to the forum,

This should help you with that,

Import your e-mail, contacts, and calendar into Windows Live Mail

myzr7 · 23 Jul 2010

Martin, Welcome to SevenForums
So you are looking at your hard drive for your OE store folders. Try this location,
Outlook Express: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{[identity ID]}\Microsoft\Outlook Express or
C:\Windows\Application Data\Outlook Express\{[identity ID]} or for vista try
Windows Mail: C:\Users\[username]/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail

roncerr · 23 Jul 2010

Wannsee said:

... Can I copy the mail & attachments from the Hard drive to my Windows live mail on my other machine?

Use the import feature of WLM (File/Import) assuming you have managed to display the file menu. Navigate to the "Outlook Express" folder on the other hard drive (shown by myzr7) or copy the "Outlook Express" folder to a usb stick, CD, or directly to your new c: drive in a convenient place like "c:/Outlook Express". Then use the WLM import feature and navigate to that folder.