Windows Mail

Not sure if in right place for this question on final part of WinMail backup/restore procedure outlined in beginning...
I have done the whole process, and now to the point of:" If your backup was made from a time that WinMail was working! ..and you are deleting/replacing your message store folder that is default located @
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\
You then DELETE the current broken 'Windows Mail' whole folder at that same location, and you copy your backup 'working one' to the Exact same path place you just deleted your broken one.
Then if you had separately made a (backup) export of the registry folder key mentioned in my write up:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Mail"
..from the same working OS source, and you merge that in - You Will Succeed"
Question is, having found the message store on my new, never opened yet, Win Mail, and ready to import my copy of the working message store from old computer, I see the delete option there for message store, and understand that I must import my message store from my back up, but exactly how do I do that? Once I hit 'delete' of old message store, how do I get the zipped copy there? I apologize in advance for being so dense!
Also, help on process of 'merging my saved registry export of HKCU' please.
I feel as if I got thru the 'hard' parts, and stuck on what must be simple...

Hi All,
It has been a very long time since I have been here.
A friend of mine is having a problem with not being able to delete or move messages from his Inbox. Sometimes it works other times he gets an error message.

1. Is there another way to delete all from Inbox?

2. Can I run the tutorial batch file again right over the existing installation?

Thanks

Don

endeavor,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Don

I noticed you had also sent me a PM while I was actually typing my above reply and had not seen it yet, and in it you give me a little more information. You also said:

His Inbox has about 17,000 messages

WinMail is known to have a problem on many levels with too many emails, opening more slowly, etc, and having that very problem, but also most importantly making it unstable and ripe for message store corruption possibly losing it all. I talk about this limit issue somewhere in these threads here in more detail, or is it on the EightForums WinMail tutorial, I've forgotten now.

He needs to clean out what he does not need, keeping a more realistic amount of emails, before proceeding.
He can even create a Backup of the old, and save it, making new ones, and reinstating others when necessary if/when needed.
I keep numerous versions of message store backups myself for this very (and other) reasons)

I don't know if I'm in the right place, either. I have Winmail working in Windows 7 and got Vista's Calendar working. However, when I ran the caledit file to execute the reg file so it would cause winmail to be able to execute the Calendar from the icon in Winmail's tool bar, nothing happens. I can execute the Calendar from its own program file, but somehow the Caledit file doesn't seem to have entered the right file in the right place in the registration file to let Calendar work from WinMail. Anyone have any ideas how to fix Winmail so that will happen?
I don't know if anyone will even find this but thought I'd give it a go.

RKelly5327 said:

I don't know if I'm in the right place

Actually please it would be best to post this question in the actual Calendar thread there.

I think the answer for you though will be the same as I replied to krutzy at the end of that Calendar thread under his post: Here

If you need to reply to this, or have any more questions about 'Calendar' please post it there, thank you!

I began this in Browsers & Mail because I felt my problem could be more universal than just in Windows Mail, but have not gotten any replies yet. Maybe there is no solution, but I'll give it another go.

I love that I've been able to keep Windows Mail on my Windows 7 Home 64 for many years. I have no use for programs like Outlook. I don't need all the bells and whistles. Programs like Thunderbird made me crazy. I just need the simple old Outlook Express that I started with years ago and the ability to have my two email accounts go into a single Inbox. I have no need to save "conversations", etc.

A strange problem has developed between myself and an email friend in the UK. She has a Gmail account that she uses through Microsoft Office Outlook 12. I'm using Windows Mail (from SevenForums) and my web mail server is through my internet cable company. (Time Warner/Charter). I do have Office 2003 Word and Excel on my computer. In the last few years, she will tell me that sometimes my emails reach her with red text in some of my email. I have read that changes in the font colors have happened, but nobody has figured out definitely why. Some of the posts I've read attribute the fault to Gmail. Others just don't know.

Through trial and error, I have made a few observations which I will note here. My friend is even less computer savvy than I am, so basically anything I've found is all on my end and getting her to confirm that the same or something different is happening on her end is impossible. I'm pretty sure I am making her eyes glaze over when I ask her to check on something on her end. So....

In no particular order:

On my end in Windows Mail, I am not seeing any other font color except black, but she's seeing parts of my text in red. I pasted her replies to me in Word when she'd reply back with my original message that she was seeing in red. Colors did change for me in Word. But on my end, I'm not seeing red, I'm seeing a yellow font. Which coincidentally is the color selected by default in Word for highlighting text.

When I looked at the font settings in Windows Mail, sometimes the example of the font would show yellow even though I had selected black. Sometimes I could get it changed to back to black but it would only work for awhile. She'd tell me she was seeing red again; so I'd check the settings and they would be reverted back to yellow in spite of it being set on black.

I think that there might be a connection between pasting web content into the email if Word is also installed. (Again only guessing because of the yellow highlight color in my Word 2003.) I was able to determine that some of the latest text she was complaining about was text I'd pasted from web articles into my email drafts. Occasionally the yellow would drift into my real time typing which probably happened as I was editing around the copied newspaper text and strayed into the yellow range of the format.

I did figure out a way to make a new Word document with no formatting other than black text and I changed the yellow highlight color to none. I thought that if I could make it the default Word Document Template that would fix the problem with her emails. But it didn't.

I also tried replacing Microsoft Office 2003 with newer versions and/or no Office program of any kind or brand. That didn't work either.

I'll stop now. I'm sure I've messed around with this more than you care to listen to. But these are the major points, I think. I'm hoping this might strike a cord with somebody and they'd know exactly what I'm talking about and would know where to point me for a fix.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read through my sad story.

P.S.
In the meantime I've been using OE Classic and there have been no problems. OE Classic will be okay as an alternative, but I'd still rather use Windows Mail if it's possible.