Live Mail Trashes Folder Names!

For many years, I have been using underscores before
a group name in order to change the sort order to the
way I like, i.e., If I need a temporary group to hold bad
addresses, I may create a folder called "_______Bad Addresses."
I use the number of underscores to control the position in the list.
Unfortunately, when I try to import these into Live Mail,
it screws up the group names!
Since I have around 30-40 group names, it would be a pain to
have to remove all the underscores (and lose the sort order!)
Is there any other way for Live Mail to import these without
screwing up and/or truncating the names?
Many thanks,
Dave

IIrc, WLM doesn't import or export Category(formerly called Groups) or their content.

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"FiOS-Dave" <FiOS-> wrote in message news:7371A44C-6BBF-4C8A-AF98-...
> For many years, I have been using underscores before
> a group name in order to change the sort order to the
> way I like, i.e., If I need a temporary group to hold bad
> addresses, I may create a folder called "_______Bad Addresses."
> I use the number of underscores to control the position in the list.
> Unfortunately, when I try to import these into Live Mail,
> it screws up the group names!
> Since I have around 30-40 group names, it would be a pain to
> have to remove all the underscores (and lose the sort order!)
> Is there any other way for Live Mail to import these without
> screwing up and/or truncating the names?
> Many thanks,
> Dave
>

Norman in the Disappearing Contacts thread said:
At this point, I shall try to remember to fire up WLMail once a day for the
next 7 days, and check my Contacts. I had four "Groups", which WLMail
converted to "Categories". The number of contacts:

All contacts (208)
Category A (15)
Category B (8)
Category C (5)
Category D (7)
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Norman imported from a wab file.
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Ron Sommer
MS MVP-Mail

"...winston" <> wrote in message
news:...
> IIrc, WLM doesn't import or export Category(formerly called Groups) or
> their content.
>
> --
> ...winston
> ms-mvp mail
>
> "FiOS-Dave" <FiOS-> wrote in message
> news:7371A44C-6BBF-4C8A-AF98-...
>> For many years, I have been using underscores before a group name in
>> order to change the sort order to the way I like, i.e., If I need a
>> temporary group to hold bad addresses, I may create a folder called
>> "_______Bad Addresses."
>> I use the number of underscores to control the position in the list.
>> Unfortunately, when I try to import these into Live Mail, it screws up
>> the group names!
>> Since I have around 30-40 group names, it would be a pain to have to
>> remove all the underscores (and lose the sort order!)
>> Is there any other way for Live Mail to import these without screwing up
>> and/or truncating the names?
>> Many thanks,
>> Dave
>>