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They were using pop3 for some unknown reason when their provider had imap available. I managed to get the email files from the bad drive and restore them to another computer with Windows Live Mail. Their hard drive crashed and I couldn't boot the computer. I just went through this with a friend's computer. Windows 10 Mail is very basic and doesn't have a lot of functionality besides the minimum of being able to send/receive email and sync with a mail server.

Your new email client will also be able to import your contacts from your csv file. When you have the email client installed and the email folders set up as you wish in there just drag and drop the eml files from File Explorer into a folder in the email client. Use a different email client like Thunderbird or eMClient for starters. I recommend getting an Office 365 subscription which will give you access to Outlook 2016. Windows LIve Mail and Windows 10 Mail are just toys. The simplest thing is to get an account. Then your emails and contacts will be kept on a server rather than scattered in files. Can anyone help? I hesitate to have to ask Microsoft.įirst you need an proper email provider. (Maybe I don't know where to look.) I've got Mail working for me I can receive emails but don't have any of my contacts there anymore to send anything to. I just spent almost an hour searching the internet and can't find any solution. But I can't figure out how to move these into my Windows Mail old email and contacts folders. eml files, and my contacts were saved as a. I've figured out how to save the old mail to my new computer in a long list of.

On my old computer all my emails which were opened in Windows Live Mail were moved from the mail server and put into files on my desktop. EML files stored on that location.I just got a new computer with Windows 10.

You can check the folder C:\Users\AppData\Local\Packages, choose microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps, and open the folder \LocalState\Indexed\LiveComm. EML files and to be able to read them without Mail App needs another email client that is capable of reading. I'll give them a try and report back in case anyone else runs into this issue.Ĭ:\Users\AppData\Local\Comms\Unistore\data via Īll email messages are stored locally on a mail folder in the hidden AppData folder.

Through my google searching I stumbled upon a few articles that provided a directory as to where they may be. If she was configured for POP3, those emails must be stored somewhere if they aren't on the mail server any more. I do have access to the file system of the hard drive even though Windows 10 doesn't boot.