I am running Live Mail 2012 on my Windows 7 Ultimate PC. I copied all the files in my Live Mail Directory and copied them to my Windows 8.1 Pc 's Live Mail 2012 directory so I would have a backup copy of all my old emails that I archive, and had no issues when I brought up Live Mail on the Win 8.1 PC.  BUT  .... I used the Win 8.1 PC for several weeks, including Live Mail, and wanted to  backup all the new emails to the Windows 7 PC just as I did previously from the 7 to the 8.1 PC. So I simply copied all the files from the 8.1 PC Live Mail Directory to the Win 7 PC.

THIS IS WHEN MY PROBLEM OCCURRED. I brought up Live Mail on the win7 pc and all looked fine. So I thought. When I closed Live mail and brought it up again. A message came up saying it was rebuilding the databases. Then when Live mail came up, I had nothing. No emails in any of the directories. The calendar events and contacts were there, BUT NO EMAILS. It even deleted all the special folders I created in my Archive directory.

Since, I have tried every way possible to get my emails (over 5 years worth of archives) back on my Windows 7 machine from my Windows 8.1 machine with no luck. All the emails go away when I open Live Mail the 2nd time.

Is there a way to go from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Live Mail 2012 ??????

Thanks.

Rich