Backup Windows Live Mail
RECOMMENDED:You may have some important email messages in your inbox and you might want to backup or save only those messages that include vital information.When it comes to saving or backing up email messages, you have multiple options. You can create a PDF copy of the email message or use an email backup program to backup all messages in your inbox. But what if you want to easily backup individual email messages?Luckily, backing up or saving individual email messages is easy in Windows 10, especially if you have already added your email account to the built-in Windows 10 Mail.
Use Mail app to save email messages in Windows 10The built-in Mail app in Windows 10 enables you save individual email messages so that you can open them either using the Mail or third-party programs when required.All email messages saved using the Mail app will have.eml extension. As you likely know, all major email clients including and Mozilla Thunderbird support the.eml extension. This means that, the backed up or saved email can be opened with other desktop email clients as well.Method 1 of 2 How to back up or save individual email messages in Windows 10 using Mail appStep 1: Launch the built-in Mail app.
Add your email account, if not already done.Step 2: Open your email message that you want to save or back up.Step 3: Once the email message is open, click the Actions icon located upper-right of the Mail window, and then click Save as option.Step 4: Finally, enter a name for the email message before clicking the Save button. The Windows 10 Mail automatically uses the subject of the email message as the file name while saving it but if you want to name it something else please do so before clicking the Save button.As said before, the email message will be saved with.eml file. Menghapus driver yang tidak terpakai windows 7. To open the saved email message, simple double-click on it to open the same in the Mail app. You can also open saved email message in Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and other desktop email client programs.Method 2 of 2 Save emails as PDFsIn addition to the above method, you can backup or save an email as PDF file on your Windows 10 PC from any program or app. This means, you can save your important emails as PDFs on your PC. Refer to our how to guide for step-by-step directions.How to and how to guides might also be of interest to you.
Backup your Windows Live Mail mail and contacts. Open the mail portion, click on the down pointing arrow in the top left corner, choose Export Email, then choose Email Messages, then choose Windows Live Mail. Now choose where the backup is to go. Create another folder inside your backup drive folder for this entire backup and name it email yourname dd-mm-yy. Open the address book (Contact list) portion of Windows Live Mail. On the top towards the right, find the Export icon. Choose comma separated values.
Backup Windows Live Mail Files
Click the browse button and navigate to your external hard drive folder for this backup and create yet another folder named address book yourname dd-mm-yy. On the next screen choose which data elements to backup.
I choose them allMove your Mail folder (a one time thing)Windows Live Mail (WLM) sets itself up in a very inconvenient place. Hard to find. There is no reasonnot to move it to a more accessible location on your hard drive. This is a one time thing.Once you do it, you will never have to do it again. Now, make backing up that folder a regular part of your regular backup procedure.To move it:. With WLM open, click on the little blue rectangle with the arrow in it on the top left of the WLM window. Click on Options then Mail, the Advanced tab, Maintenance, Store folder.
Click the Change button. A navigation list of your hard drive pops up.
Now navigate to the C: line, click once on it. Click Make new folder. Type your name followed by the word mail, click OK, Click OK. Close all the open windows. Close WLM.
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When you next open WLM, it will take longer because that is when it actually moves your mail folderThe reason you should do this is that in the future you will be following the back up procedure above, BUT also you will be backing up that Mail folder to your external hard drive as well. The reason to do this is that if ever your system needs to be re-built,the re-builder can copy that Mail folder to the right place in your “new” system and all of your mail, contacts, calendars and ever the way you have WLM set up, will be in effect in the new computer.Once Windows is re-built and all is working, download WLM 2011 from:this is the 2011 version which works better than the 2012 one. The main advantage of the 2011 version is that Groups do not work in 2012. If you do not use groups, download WLM 2012 from the Microsoft site. Start your newly installed WLM and ignore all messages.
In WLM, click the tiny arrow icon on the nearly top left. Choose Options, Mail. Click the Advanced tab, now Maintenance, Store folder. Use your mouse to select the entire content shown in that window, Ctrl+C to copy it.
Close WLM. Navigate to the location you just copied by pasting (Ctrl+V) it into the text box above the start button. Delete all the contents of this folder, but not the folder, which will now be empty. Copy the content (not the folder) of your backed-up WLM, and paste it into the folder you just deleted the contents of. Start WLM, and you will have everything back just as you had it before.
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No importing, no having to go and reset everything back the way you like it. You won’t even have to set up the accounts again. This even has your passwords. Type indexing options into the text box above the start globe.
Click Modify and add your new Windows Live Mail folder.You should now use the “move” procedure above on your new or newly re-built PC.