I have used Live Mail for months without problems. I have hundreds of contacts, and from them I have created a number of catagories with contacts grouped together to put several contacts in the "To" box of an email with one click.

Recently, the categories have been disappearing after sending just one email. I compile a category from my contacts and it appears as a category under contacts. The first time I use that category to address an email it works OK. However, if I try to send an email a few days later using the same category in the "To" box I get a message "The message could not be sent. Type an email address for one or more recipients in the To, Cc or Bcc boxes"

If I click on the category in Contacts I see a list of names and email addresses exactly as I created. However, if I then right click on Edit I see the start of my full list of contacts BUT THE BOX BELOW WHICH SHOULD STILL CONTAIN THE CONTACTS I ORIGINALL ADDED IS EMPTY.

Somehow, the contacts allocated to that category have disappeared! I need to send emails to over a dozen recipients and it is frustrating to have to laboriously compile a category every time I send them an email.

LIVE MAIL HAS WORKED OK FOR MONTHS - BUT SOMETHING HAS CHANGED.

Can anyone help?