Hi,
Recommendation: (Prior to Backing Up)
Create Four(4) new folders using Windows Explorer in the location of your choice(e.g. folder on the hard drive, external drive, or jump drive)
Folder names can be full or abbreviations -- Mail, News, Contacts, Msgs (highly suggested to aid organization)
Note: Consider appending a date suffix to the Messages folder name (e.g. Msgs_080315)
Email and News Accounts:
Tools/Accounts/<select and account>/Export
Use the Browse or Browse folders option to navigate to the Mail folder(created above)
- Export each email account account to the Mail folder, repeating the process for each email account
- Export each newsgroup account to the News folder, repeating the process for each newsgroup account
- Each account exported will be saved using the Email or News account name with a filename extension of *.iaf
Contacts:
Tools/Contacts/File/Export/Comma Separate Values
Enter a filename e.g. Cont_080315.csv, then click Browse to navigate to the Contacts folder(created above)
- Modify the filename if more than one Live ID is in use
- - If multiple Live ID's are in use, it is necessary to sign-on with each Live ID in Windows Live Mail to have access to and export that accounts contact. If Live ID's are not in use, all pop3 accounts use the default and common Contact list.
- Contacts will be saved as a *.csv file
Messages:
Important - a blank folder is required(created as suggested above);
File/Export/Messages/Windows Live Mail/
Click Browse to navigate to Msgs folder, click OK, click Next
Choose one of two options(All Folders or Selected folder) - if 'Selected' use the Control key for multiple selections, then click next to start the Export. Do not interrupt the export process. Once through Click Finish.
- The resultant export will include all folders, subfolders and messages(news and mail)
- Do not use this folder for any other storage.
- If the process is repeated later, the blank folder is still required
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Arun Ramesh