Windows Live Mail Contacts Disappeared
Helen Francke
Same thing happened to me.Still no joy.Have you tried to import your Address Book [*.WAB] or a *.CSV file?
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DSH
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Deus Vult"GK" wrote in message
news:3793F948-F6AF-4300...@microsoft.com...
And the prior program used before upgrading was ?
- OE, Windows Live Mail, OutlookWere the contacts backed up as a *.csv file ?Are the contacts also for a Hotmail type account(hotmail.com, live.com, msn.com) Live ID?
- If so, are the contacts visible at the same Live ID (email address/password) used to sign-in to Windows Live when using WLM ?--
...winston
ms-mvp mail"jyc1958" wrote in message news:a2e430b84fe98529...@nntp-gateway.com...
Hi,
Thanks to those who replied to my message. I was using WLM (never
sign-in to Hotmail or MSN) in Win XP. I was not able to back-up
anything. Upgrade was done when I received a pop-up message that a new
and ugraded version available.
As of this email I still can't get back all my contacts.
Regards,
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jyc1958
I set up my mail, contacts & calendar for my non-windows live mail email
address on my desktop and everything was fine.
I created a new email address with windows live mail on-line and everything
was fine.
I added the new, windows live email account to my wlm on the desktop, and
everything WAS NOT FINE - all of my contacts and calendars "disappeared".
I have no contacts or calendars on-line and want to keep it that way.I found the recommendation to set TOOLS/OPTIONS/CONNECTION/ to "Stop signing
in" and did that.
My contacts came back.
My calendars did not.How do I get my Calendars back?Thanks!
a) contacts associated with a specific Live ID
b) default contacts not associated with a Live Id
c) a calendar associated with a Live ID
d) a default calendar not associated with a live ID.
(I'm not sure about that last one, since I don't use the calendar feature.)You apparently created your calendar while you had Windows Live Mail
signing in to your Live ID. When you stopped signing in, it disassociated
your Windows Live Mail from that calendar.--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP Program:
"ShastaMayflies" wrote in message news:4ED645D1-3488-4597...@microsoft.com...
You might try copying the calendar database file from the Live ID folder to the default Calendar DBStore folder
- WLCalendarStore.edb
Though iirc earlier testing, you might get an error when opening WLM.--
...winston
ms-mvp mail"Ron Sommer" wrote in message news:eqr2FWKs...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
How can I import my contacts and calendar from windows live mail to eM client. I have a backed up folder with the contacts but need to import hem to eM client as well as my calendar if this can be done.e andcts
But you said you backed up your contacts and calendar from WLM. Depending on the format they are in you may be able to import them. Calendars can be imported from ics files, and contacts from vcf, wab or csv files.
If they are not there please try the import again. I have never used WLM, nor had to import from it, so I cannot give you a step by step, but once you have selected Menu > FIle > Import > WLM, are you given the option to import selected folders? If you are, choose that option and select only the calendar folders. You may also be given an option of which folder to import them to.
The Windows Live Mail allows the users to store their contact book and all the other details in the client. This helps with more effortless synchronization of the contact book between the devices. However, some users have reported that their contacts have disappeared from the Windows Live Mail or the Mail app, despite being visible on the email account on the web.
I logged into my Windows Live email account yesterday only to find all my email deleted. Not even a single solitary spam message left. I should be livid. Should be tearing what little hair I have left out of my head.
Why? Well this is not the first time Microsoft decided to delete all the email from my (then Hotmail) account. So I learned after losing valuable email the first time, not to trust any important email to Microsoft.
Thats a tough thing. I managed to find a contact in Microsoft tech support that was able to help me out and recover my mail when ths happened to me. Did you try escalating to their online support team?
I found this page by googling to see whether the same thing has happened to others. I logged in to find that 8 years of e-mail are gone. I am at a loss, as there were a lot of old things that I would liked to have kept, for posterity mostly. Is there any way I can recover this?
i feel your pain, this happened to me as well. i need to find an old email toshiba sent me to verify a purchase, i logged into my account only to find that everything had been wiped clean, drove me nuts!
Also with my Gmail accounts I make sure I download all the emails via pop3 so I know I always have a copy and because there is some much space provided with gmail I can leave all the emails on the server incase my local copy is lost!
Oh I feel your pain. The same thing happened to me but with Yahoo a few months back. I had about 300 emails in my inbox and woke up to find them all gone. I frantically sent an email to yahoo, and managed to get a reply several days later and was informed that deletion on inboxes was standard practice! What?! Managed to get the imprtant emails back though, thank god.
SOLUTION: I uninstalled Windows Live Mail and my previously deleted Yahoo mail went into Outlook 2003 where I could forward them back to myself. As a backup, I had previously emailed them all at once to myself and then File Save Attachments to my computer.
Is any one else having trouble getting into their live.co.uk addresses at the moment??? I keep getting error on page. Have been trying on and off all week and cant get in. Any ideas gratfeully received.
Once again windows deletes valuable information no warning just delete as they go i run my home business from a hotmail account that i have had for 11 years there was a lot of important information stored in the old emails that is lost forever wont be happening again its off to gmail for me
I would be extremely angry. I have some very important emails in my account and this would not bode well with me at all. I agree that Microsoft has really slipped and they still continue to stay on top. They need to make sure to pay better attention to details behind the scenes and stop worrying about making their products look state of the art.
I do have bad experience with windows live hotmail. This is the second time that happens to me. In April 2008 I have had the same problem. Even though I have two offers, the first one is to have hotmail free and the second is to pay $19.95 yearly to have my emails at any time. I stilll can not read my emails until now. This problem occours since Sunday, December 7, 2008. I am not the first customer who has problem with windows live hotmail. I keep this account because many people know it more than 10 years.
Gutted. I wrote to them asking a clear explanation and the best they could give me was a link to their discussions/forum site. Talk about a lack of any kind of answer. Of course to discuss anything on their forum you have to sign up and give a whole lot of fresh info!
Yes, the same thing happened to me with Hotmail. Seven years of emails deleted without warning. I am on Google gmail and happy. Even though, I am still paranoid. I keep a Yahoo mail account and a second Gmail account, and any important mail I forward to the other accounts (via bcc) at the time I send it.
Similair problem, windows xp installs service pack 3, deletes all e-mail, all my documents contents, and now I have to set up mail account settings again. WTF ? ALL THE IMPORTANT STUFF AND PERSONAL STUFF GETS DELETED.
i have always use incredible mail to read any of my new message, and realised that anttime i used it to read my mail it will Authomatically delete in my real mail box so i dicided to uninstalled it,which during the process all my message got deleted. All i want now is the way to get all my messages back into my mail box
thanks you.
I had 4 years of email on my account (may not seem like that long comapred to some of you other people but still they had a lot of sentimental value to me) all deleted today. The 60 day thing is BS, I had logged in no more than 1 month ago and all my emails were perfectly intact.
Blimey! Are we still having this problem?
Does no-one ever backup their important files?
In Windows Live Mail this is so simple: File, Export, Messages, Windows Live Mail (or Microsoft Exchange)
Then choose a folder for your backup
Takes a few minutes only
When my five-year-old notebook finally crashed I was forced in Jan 2009 to buy a new machine which unfortunately came with Vista. And Vista replaced Outlook (which worked just fine under XP), well they replaced it with Windows Mail, which worked marginally, but had many features downgraded from Outlook.
Guess what? The first email I got was from Microsoft itself, informing me that Windows Mail was so yesterday, and I needed to used Windows Live Mail. They purposely crippled Windows Mail so it could not hook up with Hotmail. But Windows Live Mail could hook up with Hotmail. Hint, hint.
For example, I have a calender entry to remind me to set out the trash on Thursday or recycling on Monday. With Outlook these are color coded (same color as the two different barrels). With Windows Mail all you get is once color: red. But at least a reminder pops up on the screen at the appropriate time.
Tom: God bless you. Thank you for the info provided here. Have Live Mail accounts. Performed a search on how to backup the accnts, msgs, contacts, ect. to my computer and found this site:
!F92775FC46A390CA!174.entry
Just performed a backup of all my information, no problem if you follow the instructions. Will pass that info to an external HD for safekeeping.