Earlier this month I upgraded to Windows 10 but had a problem with a development application generating warning messages. Since I had an update I had to get out and could not risk problems, I took the option to revert to Windows 7. Everything looks OK except Windows Live Mail is a mess. There were duplicate messages for everything I checked in the mail box. Clicking on one of the two entries displayed "Message cannot be found: The contents of this message cannot be found." The other was OK, sort of. Only the message that displays "Message cannot be found" shows the disposition of the message, that is, whether it has been replied to, so deleting all of these faux messages would destroy all of the tracking.

I used the Repair option for Windows Live Essentials through the Control Panel. Now there are three copies of each message. Two of them have content but no status, the other has status but not content. This affected about 20,000 messages (now 60,000). Suggestions?

Bill Buntain