John Bonnett
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| posted on 20/8/12 at 08:09 PM |
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My contacts have been wiped from Windows Live Mail
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?
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mookaloid
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| posted on 20/8/12 at 08:35 PM |
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try a system restore from before yesterday?
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 20/8/12 at 09:08 PM |
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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!!!
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 20/8/12 at 09:25 PM |
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Happens with me every time it updates
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 21/8/12 at 03:40 AM |
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Is there any way of backing up the contact list or is there a better free email prog?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 21/8/12 at 05:37 AM |
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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] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 21/8/12 at 11:04 AM |
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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?
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mookaloid
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| posted on 21/8/12 at 12:47 PM |
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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
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 21/8/12 at 02:43 PM |
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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.
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