Where do I find !!

stu2 · Post by **stu2** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:54 am

I'd appreciate it if anyone could help with this.
How would I find my email addresses to save them to a disk so I don't loose them when I do a format.
I'm using Windows 7 and Windows Live Mail
Thanks very much
Stu

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:05 am

what?? everything with Live or MSN is saved on servers not your computer now if your wanting to save outlook stuff you will need to find the PST file.

stu2 · Post by **stu2** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:34 am

Could not find any PST file, I did a file search but nothing. The email addresses must be on my hard drive somewhere.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:49 am

You need Microsoft Office installed to have Outlook, which is what saves data to your personal folder in a single PST file. But according to your post, Outlook is not what you have....so don't bother looking for a PST. Your post said "Windows Live Mail"..which is an entirely different animal.
Windows Live Mail is not Outlook....it's the freebie light e-mail client Microsoft provides for Vista and Windows 7 that replaced Outlook Express we used to have on Windows XP and earlier.
It is now saved in .EML format, instead of the .DBX form of Outlook Express
Found in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail and you'll see all the appropriate folders and sun folders there and make sense of it.

If the computer is still running, you can find it by opening up Live Mail...and going > Tools > Options > Advanced > Maintenance > Store Folder.

Now your contacts....they're stored in a new place, C:\Users\<username>\Contacts instead of the old .WAB format of Outlook Express in prior OS's.