Now we do seem to be confused!
You said you had not signed in. However, you also said you have
no contact list at all, UNLESS YOU SIGN IN. Perhaps we should
get back to basics.
WLMail is merely a PROGRAM that resides on your local computer.
You don't sign into WLMail. On the contrary, you can USE the
program to sign into an IDENTITY. A Live IDENTITY is located on
a server "in the clouds" at Microsoft - and not on your local
computer.
WLMail includes a mail client, a newsreader, a calendar and a
contact list. Typically, you would use the program to access
emails and read newsgroups. You can also use it to maintain your
list of contacts.
When you installed WLMail for the first time, it would have
imported your existing mail accounts from Outlook Express. The
initial installation process would also have imported your
existing contact list from Outlook Express.
In one of your previous posts, you indicated that one of your
email accounts has a Hotmail address. I suspect that when you
installed WLMail on your computer, WLMail would have recognized
that account and adopted the "" address as your
default Live Identity.
That is significant because "signed in" is the default
configuration for WLMail. Based upon what you are saying, I
suspect that WLMail has signed into the Live Identity, based upon
your Hotmail email address. Then, WLMail would have
synchronised the imported contact list from Outlook Express or
Windows Mail with any contact list associated with your Hotmail
address, on the central server at Hotmail. Then, WLMail would
have displayed the combined contact list. It is important to
realise that the result is stored on the remote server - not on
your own computer.
That is a guess, but you can verify whether that is what
happened. Use a web browser to sign into your Hotmail account.
Then, compare the contact list on the webmail interface against
the signed-in version of your contact list in WLMail. They
should be identical - because every time WLMail signs into your
Live identity, the program should synchronize with the central
server and display the resulting contact list.
When you use WLMail to enter (or amend) details of a contact,
those changes will be reflected on the central server. And if
you delete a contact in WLMail, the program will delete that
contact from the remote server. Similarly, if you use a web
browser to access your Live Identity, you can make changes to
your contact list via the Internet - and those changes will be
reflected in WLMail, the next time you use the program to sign
in.
As an alternative, you can configure WL Mail to operate as a
standalone utility. When WLMail is operating as a standalone
utility (i.e. without signing into a remote identity), it
displays a different list of contacts. That version of the
contacts list resides on your own computer, so it is quite
possible for it to be empty. And any changes to the local list
will not be reflected in the signed-in version - or vice versa.
On a separate matter, it is difficult to follow a thread, if you
delete previous responses, when you respond via this newsgroup.
Please leave previous responses intact. Furthermore, top-posting
seems to be the accepted practice in Microsoft newsgroups.
Please do not mix top and bottom posting in the same thread.
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> I have WLMail setup not to sign in. Above it was stated that a
> local version of my contacts would show up?? I have no contact
> list at all,unless I sign in to WLMail.
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> Thanks
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> Doug
"Doug" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> Bob Lucas wrote:
>> Have you configured WLMail to sign into a Windows Live
>> Identity (, , , et
>> al) at Microsoft? If so, then the contacts list that appears
>> in WLMail should be mirror of your contacts list on the
>> central server at Microsoft. When you amend your contacts
>> list in WLMail, the amendment should synchronize with the
>> central server (and vice versa). Your problem might occur, if
>> you allow insufficient time for synchronization to occur,
>> before you close WLMail.
>>
>> If WLMail is not signed into a Windows Live Identity at
>> Microsoft, then your computer will display a local version of
>> the contacts list (which is stored on the hard drive of your
>> computer). You will experience the same mismatch, if you
>> amend the local version (with WLMail signed out) and
>> subsequently sign in.
>>
>>
>> "Raider Power" <Raider > wrote
>> in message
>> news:B557237E-2176-4154-896D-...
>>> I am a Windows XP user and I have been trying for a while to
>>> delete old
>>> contacts from Windows Live Mail, but have been unable to do
>>> so. I open
>>> contacts, select the contact or contacts I want to delete,
>>> and click Delete
>>> in the toolbar. Selected contacts appear to be deleted, with
>>> the number of
>>> contacts reflecting those that have been deleted. If I then
>>> close WLM and
>>> reopen, the contacts I deleted reappear.
>>>
>>> I get no error messages, no failures, no lockups of any kind.
>>> All looks
>>> normal and it appears the contacts I wished to delete are
>>> gone. Where might
>>> my contact list be getting contacts other than the primary
>>> location I see
>>> when I open my contact list in WLM?
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