

Thanks, Chris! Here is his method:ġ) On my old PC, I Located the folder “C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows ive\Contacts\Default” on the new PC and deleted the contents, then replaced them with the contents of the Default folder from the old PC. Feedback indicates that it works quite well. Update: A reader, Chris Siddons, has posted an alternate method to accomplish this for those with a great number of contacts. A few days ago for no apparent reason windows live mail refuses to open. I have a hotmail account and windows live mail sync'd perfectly.

That’s because, as I later discovered, the process must be performed on the original PC in order for it to work if you try it using the recovered files on another machine, it simply fails. I installed windows live mail from the essentials web page and all was working fine for the first week. At first, it seemed like a daunting task–primarily because I could not get a (previously) popular solution involving the now-deprecated EseDbViewer to work. So today I was tasked with recovering a client’s contacts stored in a Windows Live Mail edb database for the first time.
