Windows 7 WLM does not use the folder \user\Contacts used by Vista with the filenames whose extension is contacts. Now the contacts are stored in *.ebd files. The problem is that there are a lot of ebd files in various folders and one has to find the right one for backing up his/her contacts. After quite some research and experimentation, I end up to this : I don't know if the answer has already been given, but the contacts location of windows live mail in windows 7 is :
c:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\contacts\Default\15.4\DBStore
It is apparently the only place where the real contacts are stored and maintained. If you copy this folder to the same place from computer A to computer B, (after temporaly renaming this contact folder on computer B to preserve its own contacts), you'll get the contacts of computer A in computer B WLM, in place of computer's B contacts. This is the proof that this folder is the one and only one, among many others, containing the contacts. All copy and renaming must be done with WLM closed.
Therefore, to backup your contacts, you only have to backup this folder with all what is within it.
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