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  • final question - about migration of the local store folder

    From Roland Schweiger@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 2 22:22:56 2016
    So finally it appears that WindowsLiveMail has passed EOL as finally
    MS-type of accounts are no longer reachable via DeltaSync, no EAS
    update/plugin was available and synchronizing of calendar and contacts
    also ceased. This evenrtually made the software unusable for me and
    probably for many others too.

    So finally i moved everything to Thunderbird - all the eMail accounts,
    and the calendar and contacts i moved to Google, as there are good
    add-ons for Thunderbird to properly sync calendars and contacts across
    multiple computers and smartphones etc.

    There remains a final problem regarding the Local Store Folder of WindowsLiveMail.
    Generally i succeeded transferring it to TB and i did it by hand by
    exporting every single folder of the local store into a
    windows-directory by dragging all the emails out of WLM's folder and
    into a Windows directory, and then dragging from a windows directory
    into TB.

    The reason i did it like this is because WLM will store every single
    message as a .eml file.

    However i now found out that NOT all eMails will be stored as a .eml
    file when dragged out of WLM and into a windows folder.

    Some eMails will be stored as ._eml
    (meaning they are stored as filename then a dot then an underscore and
    then the extension eml)

    Such files are then not imported into TB and so i loose some locally
    stored messages.

    Does any one know *why* WLM stores some emails wit the underscore in the
    name extension ?

    Greetings ... from a beginning-to-end WLM user :)

    Roland Schweiger

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  • From . . .winston@21:1/5 to Roland Schweiger on Mon Sep 5 14:33:06 2016
    Roland Schweiger wrote:
    So finally it appears that WindowsLiveMail has passed EOL as finally MS-type of accounts are no longer reachable via DeltaSync, no EAS update/plugin was available and synchronizing of calendar and contacts also ceased.

    All accounts have yet to be migrated. Accounts still residing on the old
    server remain capable of DeltaSync and possibly until sometime in 2017.


    There remains a final problem regarding the Local Store Folder of WindowsLiveMail.
    Generally i succeeded transferring it to TB and i did it by hand by
    exporting every single folder of the local store into a windows-directory by dragging all the emails out of WLM's folder and into a Windows directory,
    and then dragging from a windows directory into TB.

    The reason i did it like this is because WLM will store every single message as a .eml file.
    The same occurs using WLM's export feature.

    However i now found out that NOT all eMails will be stored as a .eml file when dragged out of WLM and into a windows folder.

    Some eMails will be stored as ._eml
    (meaning they are stored as filename then a dot then an underscore and then the extension eml)
    - Usually an indexing problem, no solution exists.




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    ...winston
    msft mvp windows experience 2007-2016, insider mvp 2016

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