Restoring a backup >>> mail not indexed?

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Hi all, my understaning is that you can back up the contents of the
Windows Live Mail folder to back up your email. (ie, you can later
copy that back into your Windows Live Mail folder to restore)

But it seems doing so borks the Vista indexer.

For example, if I:

1) back up my Windows Live Mail folder

2) load a "clean" Vista image back onto the PC

3) copy the backup into the Windows Live Mail folder

When I do this, the contents of the Windows Live Mail folder are no
longer included in the Vista index.

Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't the restored copy have the same
index behavior? Has anybody here ever tried this?

Thanks! -Scott
 
turnstyle said:
Hi all, my understaning is that you can back up the contents of the
Windows Live Mail folder to back up your email. (ie, you can later
copy that back into your Windows Live Mail folder to restore)

But it seems doing so borks the Vista indexer.

For example, if I:

1) back up my Windows Live Mail folder

2) load a "clean" Vista image back onto the PC

3) copy the backup into the Windows Live Mail folder

When I do this, the contents of the Windows Live Mail folder are no
longer included in the Vista index.

Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't the restored copy have the same
index behavior? Has anybody here ever tried this?

Thanks! -Scott
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You'll get answers to Windows Live Mail problems faster in this newsgroup:

microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
 
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Thanks -- I'll try there... -Scott
 
turnstyle said:
Hi all, my understaning is that you can back up the contents of the
Windows Live Mail folder to back up your email. (ie, you can later
copy that back into your Windows Live Mail folder to restore)

But it seems doing so borks the Vista indexer.

For example, if I:

1) back up my Windows Live Mail folder

2) load a "clean" Vista image back onto the PC

3) copy the backup into the Windows Live Mail folder

When I do this, the contents of the Windows Live Mail folder are no
longer included in the Vista index.

Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't the restored copy have the same
index behavior? Has anybody here ever tried this?

Thanks! -Scott
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Backing up Windows Mail messages does not put the messages back on the
server. I don't know of any way to do that. If you do a clean install of
Vista you will lose everything stored on that drive partition (generally
C:).

However, when you install Windows Live Mail it will normally import the data
from Windows Mail. What it doesn't import all by itself is not difficult to
transfer.
 
Hi Frank, sorry if I was unclear.

I have Windows Live Mail (desktop) on Vista and I back up the Windows
Live Mail folder to a network share. The problem is that when I
restore that copy, the "index this" flag for is changed from "yes" to
"no" -- and so the Vista Indexer skips them following the restore.

-Scott
 
turnstyle said:
Hi Frank, sorry if I was unclear.

I have Windows Live Mail (desktop) on Vista and I back up the Windows
Live Mail folder to a network share. The problem is that when I
restore that copy, the "index this" flag for is changed from "yes" to
"no" -- and so the Vista Indexer skips them following the restore.

-Scott
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You'll get better help for Windows Live Mail in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
 
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