Occasionally the "Recovered Items" folder appears with some folders/items in it, usually after a WLM bobble of some type. I can't find any info on this particular folder and what to do about/with it in Help. 1) Is there info somewhere on this that I have missed? 2) What is happening to divert items to it? 3) How should it then be handled? I don't see any menu action relating to it. Do I just manually move the mail or news items in it to the folder where they should reside? For now, after viewing and maybe saving the items in it, I just delete "Recovered Items" so that its reappearance sometime later will alert me that it has new contents. Thanks. --- Frank
Ordinarily, every message file present in the WLM store has an entry in the database. However, if the database gets corrupted or you manually add message files to store folders (outside the app), we find these "unofficial" files and put them in a recovered items folder. If the database is corrupted, we first try to restore it from the backup. A lot of the time, though, some new messages have been received since the database was backed up. These files don't have entries in the database and are therefore "recovered". You shouldn't need to ever put anything into the Recovered items folder. You can, if you want. I think more likely you would be moving messages out of there into your account/storage folder of choice. I'll look into adding a help entry on this. Thanks! Dima
Hi, Frank. When I find a Recovered Items folder, I just move the messages out, as Dima said, to the folders where they belong. Or just move them all to my Inbox and let my Rules move them. Usually there are several layers of subfolders under Recovered Items, but all the subfolders are empty except the bottom folder. Like you, once I've rescued all the useful messages, I just Delete the Recovered Items folder, which also deletes the whole now-empty subfolder tree. (That's the same way I handled Imported Items folders when I first switched to WLM from WM and WLMd last Spring.) Luckily, I haven't had a Recovered Items folder appear in several weeks now. ;<) RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275)
Dima, I tried to do the move out and into a folder for a newsgroup under a newsgroup account in my WLMD configuration. WLMD seemed to be attempting to post the messages to the newsgroup as a result of the move! Thank God it failed. Am I doing something wrong? Is the user's handling of the Recovered Items folders meant to be different for mail accounts as opposed to newsgroup accounts? Also, for some reason, after a WLMD upset, switching from mail to newsgroups without first collapsing the Storage Folders causes WLMD to stop responding and causes the wlmail.exe process to max out the CPU at 100%. What's up with that? Is there a fix? MS
MS, Were you attempting to moving these to a newsgroup or a user created folder ? If they are newsgroup messages present in the Recovered folder after WLM created the backup, they should be available for download in the newsgroup. You may have to reset the group to download them. If these(recovered items) are messages that one wishes to save, external from viewing in the newsgroup, then they would need to moved to another folder(user created in WLM or Windows Explorer). If they are not required, they can be deleted from the Recovered items folder.
Hi, Winston - and MS. Yes! It took me several beta build installations - and Imports - to realize that it made no sense at all to wait through the loooong process of Importing all those Newsgroup posts. Email Accounts and messages import properly and were available for reading as soon as the import process is done. But News posts were NOT available, even after a successful Import. I always had to recreate the News Account, then re-subscribe to my NGs, and then re-download all the messages. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I stopped Importing NG posts (back in about February) when I realized this. So, don't blindly accept the default to Import All Folders. Check just the Mail folders and leave the News messages behind. And, MS, PLEASE stop typing WLMD when you mean WLM. It just confuses those of us who know the difference. :^{ RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64)
RC, I can't recall the last time I imported newsgroup messages. I do export email accounts and newserver(*.iaf) settings. Though one particular server changes the password every few months<g>, thus I export that one more often. My approach to newsgroups-if I didn't save it somewhere else or remember it, if not still available on the server or google, I probably don't need it or the subject will reappear once again.
