Re: Message Store Folders Deleted

You can search or Explore the local folders directory for eml files that are
the messages and see if they are still there. If so then you can drag them
from Explorer and drop them into WinMail or WLM folders. If not, then I
suspect you are out of luck. System restore might help, but it might make
things worse. Next time backup first.

steve

"Paul" <> wrote in message
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> 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.