Hi, I'm currently trying to change the location of the Storage Folder in WLM 2012 running on Win7-64. This a new install, the accounts are not yet defined so the default folder contains no messages for now and is located on my SSD system reserved partition. I want to change that location to an alternate data oriented mass drive. I have created the folder and set full control permissions over the folder for basically any entity on the machine. Using the process in WLM 2012: Options -> Mail -> Advanced -> Maintenance -> Storage Folder, I select my folder using the dialog but pressing OK once the folder is selected and its name is displayed in the dialog has not effect, that is, the dialog stays there and hangs and will only react to Cancel or Close thereby refusing to confirm my change of the location. Some informational or error message from the application would be useful at that point but instead the user is served with the perfect void of galactic space ... Closing, rebooting, etc doesn't solve anything.

So first, what am I missing here ? And second, is there any particular folder structure that I should pre-define under my alternate storage folder ? And finaly, will all my messages be stored on that folder once properly assigned or will some still remain on the default folder location (either the Outbox, etc) ?

I have looked all over the Net for this for hours and nobody else seems to have this issue. I cannot leave the default folder to be used by Live Mail because once my email accounts are defined, the IMAP logics will trigger a download of thousands of email messages from the server to my machine flooding my system reserved partition. Not acceptable.

Thanks in advance for anyone providing welcome wisdom on this.

DD