Used Windows Easy Transfer to export the content from a  Vista system running  Win Mail  Target is a new Win 7 system running Live Mail.

Successfully did the export to a flash drive. At least I'm assuming that I did because Easy Transfer told me it was successful.

Moved the flash drive to the new system.  Double clicked the Easy Transfer file on the flash drive and it launched the import.  Again, I got a progress bar and a confirmation that the import succeeded.   

When I went to look for the transferred folders in Live Mail, they weren't there  The data folders transferred OK but not the mail store  On a hunch, I used Live Mail's email import tool. I responded to the Question box looking for the input format with the fact that the input would be in Win Mail Format.   It found the  Easy Transfer file on the flash drive  as  it found that it contained email.  I assumed that it  would put it in Live Mail's mail store. So the fact that it didn't ask me where I wanted to put it didn't seem odd.

The mail import took off and  showed me a series of message boxes with progress bars--one for each folder that was on the old system.  It finished without error and I went into Live Mail to admire Easy Transfer's handywork.  Needless to say, it wasn't anywhere to be found.

Anybody have any ideas as to where  Live Mail's import tool might have put the mail?  It told me that the import succeeded but no clue as to where the imported mail folders went.   Even an idea as to what file extension Live Mail uses for the folders would help  as that might let me find them with search. 

Thanx in advance.

Steve From a very wet and windy MD
When I try to sign in to messenger, a pop up tells me i must install the latest version before I can, but when I try to install it, it stops at 1% and wont progress past that. What do I do now?

We have a user whose main identity database is corrupt, and the database utility just hangs with no progress, even left running overnight.

 

The disc itself checked out clean, but it appears the identity is beyond repair.

 

Is there any way to salvage some of the mail stored locally  in that identity?

 

We use Exchange, but have pretty strict size limits, resulting in most folks saving mail locally.

 

There was a recent Time Machine backup (though I'm not sure if that database is corrupt), but we're getting a "you don't have access" error when I try to restore it, so I can't test it.

 

Thanks in advance for your advice!