I have temporarily moved around message folders in the Windows Live Mail directory on the hard drive, which resulted in all my user created subfolders and messages disappearing inside WLM program. Even though I now put the original message folders back to where they used to be on the hard drive (in the Windows Live Mail directory), WLM program is ignoring them. When I start WLM, it creates new empty message folders ('Inbox', 'Sent', 'Deleted') on the hard drive instead of connecting to the original folders containing email messages. So all my custom created subfolders with messages are still gone from WLM program.

This is a POP3 email account. Most messages are no longer on the server, so I can't download them again.

I also have a recent backup of email messages (exported to a different location on the hard drive a couple of days ago) but when I try to import them back into WLM it doesn't work (even though I get a message that the import was successful).

How do I get my subfolders and messages back into WLM?

Thank you for your help.

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