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How do I recover email from back-up hard-drive?
My system: Windows 7 desktop pc with Windows Live Mail 2012
I want to know how to recover email from my back-up hard-drive if I should need to do so. Machine is running fine for now.
I use Windows Live Mail (WLM) as if it were Outlook Express, not the "Live" part.
I have sub-folders in WLM for "Household", "Car", "Work", "Boat" etc.
My email service provider is POP3 in / SMTP out with minimal storage on the server.
I have moved the storage folders to "My documents".
I regularly back-up the contents of "My documents" to a second hard-drive in case my computer crashes.
In WLM, email is shown in columns headed From, Subject, Date etc.
In the storage folders, email is shown in columns headed Name (like 2E976873-00000065.eml), Date modified, Type and Size - No From, no Subject.
Questions:
i) Assume that my machine has crashed terminally. How do I restore my email from the backup hard-drive onto a NEW Windows pc with WLM so that I get the same sub-folders plus mails with the same From, Subject and Date?
ii) Do I have the option of migrating all my emails to an app that stores them in a Cloud? I cannot change my current POP3/SMTP email service provider.
iii) Am I approaching this problem from the wrong end?
TIA
Mike