Re: Message Store Folders Deleted

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Paul wrote:
> Working with Windows Live Mail, I foolishly changed the directory for
> it's message store to the location where my Vista Windows Mail is
> kept. Although WLM said the folder wasn't empty and refused to
> proceed, I find that most of the folders got deleted. I have
> remaining only:
>
> Local Folders
> edb.chk
> edbres00001.jrs
> edbres00002.jrs
> WindowsMail.MSMessageStore
>
> If I create a new message store location and use Windows Mail to
> import, I get only empty Local Folders.
>
> Any ideas on recovery other than the long shot of some kind of
> undelete program? My most recent backup is some four months old.