Live Account issues...

Hi,

I've gotten myself into a slight mess here..

Back in the days, I created a Messenger account
with my old email address. - I then
changed it to myself@my_own_address.net, then suddenly.
in the test period, you could suddenly, for free, send
Messages to mobile devices. Awesome feature.. Then
suddenly, it's not free anymore.. Still awesome. It'll
also cost me sending it from my Mobile, so I'm still
with the program..

And now, my idiocy.. In order to purchase Tokens for
sending messages to mobile devices, you HAVE to have a
account.. So I just go through the
process not even considering that I'll have to switch to
that account in Messenger, and hence loose all my contacts..

So now I'm stuck with a Live ID that can't send messages to
mobile devices - and one that has billing information and a
100 tokens I can't use - because there's no contacts...

Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
Live IDs ?..

Cheers, and thank you for your time,
Steff

If someone needs to contact me off board, my email ends in .dk,
not .info

Steffen Hansen wrote:
>
> Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
> Live IDs ?..

And that would of course be "consolidate TWO separate Live IDs"..

Cheers,
Steff

Steffen Hansen wrote:
> Steffen Hansen wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
>> Live IDs ?..
>
> And that would of course be "consolidate TWO separate Live IDs"..
>
> Cheers,
> Steff

It would be a microsoft billing issue.

Steffen Hansen <> wrote:

>Steffen Hansen wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
>> Live IDs ?..
>
>And that would of course be "consolidate TWO separate Live IDs"..
>
>Cheers,
>Steff
Well, not consolidate, per se, but you can export all of your contacts from the
old Live ID and import them to the new ID. Your contacts will need to re-add you
as a contact with the new ID.
-steve
--
Stephen Boots
MVP Windows Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator

StephenB wrote:
> Steffen Hansen <> wrote:
>
>> Steffen Hansen wrote:
>>> Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
>>> Live IDs ?..
>> And that would of course be "consolidate TWO separate Live IDs"..
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steff
> Well, not consolidate, per se, but you can export all of your contacts from the
> old Live ID and import them to the new ID. Your contacts will need to re-add you
> as a contact with the new ID.
> -steve
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP Windows Live
> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
>

And that is exactly the thing I'm trying to avoid....

/me wanders off snickering */

Still thanks everyone for their help.

Cheers,
Steff - Smacks own head with a gold leaf wrapped brick....

Try
https://account.live.com/ChangeId.as...rp=SummaryPage

"Steffen Hansen" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I've gotten myself into a slight mess here..
>
> Back in the days, I created a Messenger account
> with my old email address. - I then
> changed it to myself@my_own_address.net, then suddenly.
> in the test period, you could suddenly, for free, send
> Messages to mobile devices. Awesome feature.. Then
> suddenly, it's not free anymore.. Still awesome. It'll
> also cost me sending it from my Mobile, so I'm still
> with the program..
>
> And now, my idiocy.. In order to purchase Tokens for
> sending messages to mobile devices, you HAVE to have a
> account.. So I just go through the
> process not even considering that I'll have to switch to
> that account in Messenger, and hence loose all my contacts..
>
> So now I'm stuck with a Live ID that can't send messages to
> mobile devices - and one that has billing information and a
> 100 tokens I can't use - because there's no contacts...
>
> Is it possible, by some longshot, to consolidate to separate
> Live IDs ?..
>
> Cheers, and thank you for your time,
> Steff
>
> If someone needs to contact me off board, my email ends in .dk,
> not .info

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:29:40 +0100, Steffen Hansen wrote:

> Back in the days, I created a Messenger account
> with my old email address. - I then
> changed it to myself@my_own_address.net, then suddenly.
> in the test period, you could suddenly, for free, send
> Messages to mobile devices. Awesome feature.. Then
> suddenly, it's not free anymore.. Still awesome. It'll
> also cost me sending it from my Mobile, so I'm still
> with the program..
>
> And now, my idiocy.. In order to purchase Tokens for
> sending messages to mobile devices, you HAVE to have a
> account.. So I just go through the
> process not even considering that I'll have to switch to
> that account in Messenger, and hence loose all my contacts..
>
> So now I'm stuck with a Live ID that can't send messages to
> mobile devices - and one that has billing information and a
> 100 tokens I can't use - because there's no contacts...

You can export and import contact lists. From your "my_own_address.net"
Passport account, go to "Contacts > Save Contact List...", and save the
list. Then sign in to your Hotmail Messenger account and follow the same
menu path, only use the "Import Contacts from a File..." option.

And I actually created a new account just to test this; it does work.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum