I'm looking for the actual folder(s) where emails in my inbox, outbox, etc. are stored. Is there some way I can access that folder which I assume is somewhere on my hard drive? I have Vista Windows Mail.
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I'm looking for the actual folder(s) where emails in my inbox, outbox, etc. are stored. Is there some way I can access that folder which I assume is somewhere on my hard drive? I have Vista Windows Mail.
The default location of Windows Live Mail's Message Store is:
Vista: %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
(C:\Users\<Windows user account>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail)
In order to find all of your data let's make sure we can see all of our data first.
In Windows Vista try the following (note: also works for XP):
- Click "Start"
- Click "Control Panel"
- Click "Folder Options"
- Click "View"
- Click "Show hidden files and folders"
- Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
- Click "Apply" and "OK"
In Vista you are using a program called Windows Mail 7 which is basically outlook express reinvented. The path to the .dbx files are located here: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail
The emails are located here:
C:\users\(your user name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders
They are the ones with the ".eml" file extension.
Recovery for Windows Mail http://www.nsware.com/Windows-Mail-Recovery.htm is one of the first products on the market to support the new Windows email client. It is designed specifically to un-delete email messages in Windows Vista.