Follow the steps here: How do I import and export email, contacts, and calendars with Windows Live Mail? - Import Email Messages or Back Up and Restore Windows Live Mail (Click on show all and scroll down for the steps)
This may also be of help:http://www.trickyways.com/2010/10/ho...2011-messages/
System specs are shown when you click that arrow: see attachment.
I noticed that not only MY System Specs showed when I clicked in the right place, but so are yours in YOUR posts. THAT is solved !
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since we last exchanged messages :
I think I had told you that another problem had developped in W.L.M. - I was unable to delete some messages in my junk folder. Research suggested deletion of the mail store and that relaunching of W.L.M. would rebuild the mail store - and then I'd be able to delete them. So I cloned my system to another drive and deleted the mail store, only to find that it was NOT recreated. Since the data was gone, I thought I had nothing to lose by trying to re-install W.L.M. So I uninstalled W.L.M. and tried to re-install it from a standalone version of Windows Live Essentials, but that got aborted by an error "Couldn't install Mail. An unknown error occurred : 0>o80040605
Source: WLXSuite" So I went back to the source of the clone without any progress.
Hello Sebastian42
I've researched on your problem and seems like there is no stable fix for your 2nd issue. So suggest a Repair Install
I've called for help, lets see where this goes.. will post back when i find something.
Good luck
To make sure we are not at cross-purposes - what 2nd problem is there no stable fix for ? (inability to delete SOME emails for the Junk folder ?)
Are you suggesting a repair-install for Win7 rather than for W.L.M. ? - I noticed that there was a repair option in Windows live Essentials.
I don't understand : "...a 2nd thread ...URL... for the error you are getting now".
On the CLONE that I made of this system, WLM was UNinstalled and then failed to re-install. What I'm writing you from, has not been 'touched'.
Okay thanks.
Since you're on the "untouched" clone, download and install a fresh copy of windows live from here Download Windows Live Messenger 2011 (15.4.3555) - FileHippo.com choose the ones you want to install.
Let us know how it goes.
I have experimented with Messenger before and REALLY DO NOT want to go that way.
I also tried Thunderbird. I messed with email clients for a month or more at the beginning of the year and have decided that W.L.M. is the way to go.
You don't have too install anything else then. deselect the rest and just download windows live mail from it.
That looks like the sort of thing that happens when you opt to read messages in plain text only. When implemented, the body of the message appears as plain text and hyperlinks. The HTML part is put in a file and positioned just as shown in your screenshot. Occasionally though, an e-mail doesn't have any plain text content to display. Then the e-mail looks just the same as your screenshot (no body text/hyperlinks).
That might be useless information but since no luck so far, you could just look into this setting. Maybe tick the box and apply and untick the box and apply. See if it might give things a kick.
Options > Mail > Read (tab) > Read all messages in plain text.
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