Recover Windows Live Mail Emails

Discussion in 'Software' started by kjj911, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. kjj911

    kjj911 Private E-2

    Ok, so my computer crashed and I need to see if I can recover my emails from the hard drive. Windows cannot read the drive but Linux does. I need some help finding where the emails would be stored so I can try to save them to an external hard drive before reformatting. If anyone could help with this it would be greatly appreciated as they contain information that I really need. They were not backed up on a server so retrieving from this hard drive is my only chance.

    Thanks!
    KJ
     
  2. _nullptr

    _nullptr Major Geeky Geek Geek

    Assuming your operating system is Vista or newer, you should find everything in
    • C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
    Mail.MSMessageStore is the main mail db file, but to be safe I'd backup the entire WLM directory.
     
  3. kjj911

    kjj911 Private E-2

    Thank you!!
     

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