All prior Windows live mail lost after profile corruption

[Martin C]

I know this is slightly off topic, but I do not have a Windows Live Mail
newsgroup in my list of available ones.

I have been recovering a problem on my neighbours PC where her user profile
got corrupted and created a temporary one in its place for her to use. I
have managed to get most of her stuff back by creating a new account for her
and moving the 'my documents' from her old account to the new.

I have just about everything back to normal except for one thing - I cannot
find any of her old Windows Live Mail messages.

I cannot access her profile folder in c:\documents and settings as it is a
zero size folder and tells me that access is denied. Even via the XP
Administrator account I cannot find anything inside it.

Looking in the TEMP folder in the docs and settings folder, there is nothing
present there in the Windows Live folder either.

Am I missing a trick here, or is it still possible to retrieve her old mail
messages from somewhere.

TIA

Martin

 

[Gordon]

I know this is slightly off topic, but I do not have a Windows Live Mail
newsgroup in my list of available ones.

Subscribe to the MS newsgroups direct - as you are using OE you can add
msnews.microsoft.com as a second news server and you will find plenty of
Live newsgroups!

HTH

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Subscribe to the MS newsgroups direct - as you are using OE you can add
msnews.microsoft.com as a second news server and you will find plenty of
Live newsgroups!

The newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop is available,
as you suggest, on msnews.microsoft.com, but also on other free news
servers like news.eternal-september.org