email merge in word 2010

25. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: livemail · Tags: ,
When I try to send an email to a list of email addresses from an excel file Windows Live Mail (WML) only sends it to addresses that are in my contacts list.  The other addresses get a pop-up window labelled Name Check and reporting that that particular address has not been found.  How do I turn off this check?  It appears to be a problem in the Word-WML interface as WML itself has no problems sending to addresses not in my contacts list.

Windows Live Mail Accounts Vanished

30. July 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
My system is on a laptop running Windows 7 64bit OS.

I had Window Live Mail 11 running while doing some other work on my laptop.  I switched back to see if I'd received any new emails.  When I went to click on an email I got an odd error message (unfortunately I don't recall the exact wording of the message) that stated something about the email content or body not existing or being available.

I figured that perhaps WML 11 had crashed so I shut it down and then reopened it.  WML 11 opened but all 3 accounts that were on it no longer existed.  The folders and subfolders were all gone as were all the emails.  All WML 11 showed is Quick Views, Outbook and Storage Folders.  Next to the Unread email under the Quick Views section no emails show up but I do have Unread Feeds.

I was able to located the folder where WML 11 stores the emails C:\Users\XXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail but when I opened the Inbox folders for each account it shows a handful of email messages at best.  So I'm concerned that I've lost years worth of emails.

I also had one of these three accounts on Outlook 2010 and that too lost all the emails and had to re-synch (if that's the right word) to the email account and re-downloaded the emails which were still out on the server.

So after a little looking around for a solution and coming up with nothing on the net that sounded similar to my situation I decided to play around with the WLM 11 folders a bit to see if I could figure out what happened.

It turns out that I was able to use a previous version of the folder (or is it called a folder restore point) by right clicking on the folders.  So I was excited as there was like 50,000 emails that were being restored.  It said it needed 5 hours to fully restore the one email folder.  So I let it do it's thing and I walked away to do some house work.  When I came back the restore had stopped at some point and couldn't any longer find the email files.  So skipped the files it couldn't find.  After clicking skip for about 100 times I decided to click cancel and the restore stopped.  I right clicked the folder again to start the process again but now there were no previous versions available.  So I was really....lets call it unhappy...about loosing this option to fix my problem.  I had checked the other folders before starting the restore and all the folders had a previous version.  Now suddenly none of the folders had a previous version.  All the folders previous versions were gone.

So essentially somehow tens of thousands of emails across 3 email accounts and on 2 different email software (WLM11 and Outlook 2010) vanished, got moved, or got deleted by some process not initiated by me.  In addition, somehow the restore points were also deleted.  I've never heard of anything like this before.  I've done a virus/spyware scan using my TrendMicro product and nothing was found.

The only lucky part of this story is that I have a back up of all of these emails on a older boxed up desktop.  So they aren't lost forever.  However, I'd still like to get some help with this issue because I'd hate for this to happen ever again and not have any option to recover.  Any ideas on what could have causes something so catastrophic?

Lost all emails in 3 account in Windows Live Mail after an error message appears.

30. July 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: livemail · Tags: ,
My system is on a laptop running Windows 7 64bit OS.

I had Window Live Mail 11 running while doing some other work on my laptop.  I switched back to see if I'd received any new emails.  When I went to click on an email I got an odd error message (unfortunately I don't recall the exact wording of the message) that stated something about the email content or body not existing or being available.

I figured that perhaps WML 11 had crashed so I shut it down and then reopened it.  WML 11 opened but all 3 accounts that were on it no longer existed.  The folders and subfolders were all gone as were all the emails.  All WML 11 showed is Quick Views, Outbook and Storage Folders.  Next to the Unread email under the Quick Views section no emails show up but I do have Unread Feeds.

I was able to located the folder where WML 11 stores the emails C:\Users\XXXXXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail but when I opened the Inbox folders for each account it shows a handful of email messages at best.  So I'm concerned that I've lost years worth of emails.

I also had one of these three accounts on Outlook 2010 and that too lost all the emails and had to re-synch (if that's the right word) to the email account and re-downloaded the emails which were still out on the server.

So after a little looking around for a solution and coming up with nothing on the net that sounded similar to my situation I decided to play around with the WLM 11 folders a bit to see if I could figure out what happened.

It turns out that I was able to use a previous version of the folder (or is it called a folder restore point) by right clicking on the folders.  So I was excited as there was like 50,000 emails that were being restored.  It said it needed 5 hours to fully restore the one email folder.  So I let it do it's thing and I walked away to do some house work.  When I came back the restore had stopped at some point and couldn't any longer find the email files.  So skipped the files it couldn't find.  After clicking skip for about 100 times I decided to click cancel and the restore stopped.  I right clicked the folder again to start the process again but now there were no previous versions available.  So I was really....lets call it unhappy...about loosing this option to fix my problem.  I had checked the other folders before starting the restore and all the folders had a previous version.  Now suddenly none of the folders had a previous version.  All the folders previous versions were gone.

So essentially somehow tens of thousands of emails across 3 email accounts and on 2 different email software (WLM11 and Outlook 2010) vanished, got moved, or got deleted by some process not initiated by me.  In addition, somehow the restore points were also deleted.  I've never heard of anything like this before.  I've done a virus/spyware scan using my TrendMicro product and nothing was found.

The only lucky part of this story is that I have a back up of all of these emails on a older boxed up desktop.  So they aren't lost forever.  However, I'd still like to get some help with this issue because I'd hate for this to happen ever again and not have any option to recover.  Any ideas on what could have causes something so catastrophic?

 
Original Title: Windows Live Mail Accounts Vanished