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My contacts have been wiped from Windows Live Mail
John Bonnett - 20/8/12 at 08:09 PM

Last time I checked, yesterday I think the contacts were all there and tonight they are all gone.

I have never been comfortable with Live Mail which comes with Windows 7 and it seems with good reason.

Anyone else had this problem and is there any way to recover them?

mookaloid - 20/8/12 at 08:35 PM

try a system restore from before yesterday?

John Bonnett - 20/8/12 at 09:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
try a system restore from before yesterday?





Thank you so much. I did a system restore (with my heart in my mouth) and it worked. fantastic, great stuff!!!

omega 24 v6 - 20/8/12 at 09:25 PM

Happens with me every time it updates

John Bonnett - 21/8/12 at 03:40 AM

Is there any way of backing up the contact list or is there a better free email prog?

britishtrident - 21/8/12 at 05:37 AM

For email Mozilla Thunderbird is rock solid, once installed you can use another free program Mozbackup to backup tp other media

Thunderbird

Mozbackup


Mozback also backs up email settings & passwords and also backs up Firefox settings and bookmarks

[Edited on 21/8/12 by britishtrident]

John Bonnett - 21/8/12 at 11:04 AM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
For email Mozilla Thunderbird is rock solid, once installed you can use another free program Mozbackup to backup tp other media

Thunderbird

Mozbackup


Mozback also backs up email settings & passwords and also backs up Firefox settings and bookmarks

[Edited on 21/8/12 by britishtrident]




I have tried Thunderbird in the past but I didn't like the predictive method of putting in the recipient's address. You have to remember how it starts rather than just scroll down a list. Or can you do it that way in Thunderbird too?

mookaloid - 21/8/12 at 12:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by John Bonnett
Is there any way of backing up the contact list or is there a better free email prog?


BT is quite correct but you can still lose the lot when your hard drive gives up - and it will sooner or later

Why not move to on line email with gmail, hotmail or yahoomail etc? you can export your contact list and even all your existing emails using Imap. It has the advantage that you are hardware independent so when your computer breaks you a) don't lose all your email and b) you are up and running again as soon as you can get to another computer or ipad or smart phone etc.

Cheers

M

John Bonnett - 21/8/12 at 02:43 PM

Thank you all for your very helpful replies.

As a complete duffer in anything to do with computers, I really appreciate your help and as a result I have been able to recover my address book, export it from Windows Live Mail into gmail and WLM has gone forever I hope.

Great stuff. What an incredible forum this is.