Backup

[denmarfl]

Running Windows Mail; Vista Home Prem 32 Bit....

I have an external USB Drive labeled as Drive L:\. I see a WINDOWS MAIL
Folder on that drive....among many Sub Folders in this Folder I see Backup.
Windows Mail is installed on my C:\ Drive. I opened Windows Mail and looked
for Backup....could not file that menu item. The Folder labeled Windows Mail
shows it was established...11/08....however this mail client has been
installed and active on my PC since August '08.

What is this Folder on my L:\ drive? Is there a setting within Windows Mail
that establishes\creates\controls backups into this folder? I don't even
understand how this Folder\sub Folders got created on my L:\ drive because I
have never set anything up...

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail doesn't have a "backup" feature.
Something else must have created that folder on your L: drive.

 

[Steve Cochran]

The backup in the message store is a backup of the database only and occurs
once per day. There is no documentation whatsoever on how this works. I
have no idea how you got files on the L drive without copying them there
yourself. Perhaps some 3rd party program put them there, but WinMail
didn't.

steve

 

[denmarfl]

The "Mystery" ius there....the Folder on my External L:\ Drive is definitely
Windows mail; when you place the mouse over it it shows a date of 11/11/08.
As I open and explore the Folders...there are Inbox\Outbox\Sent....sub
Folders and when I click on a file in those boxes a Windows Live mail e-mail
opens. I understand that Windows mail has no backup feature, but surely its
there on my L:\ drive. Although I doubt not a factor, I do run the Microsoft
Outlook Backup utility and it is set to do the Outlook Backup on the L:\
drive....and I also see a Root Outlook Back Folder on L:\. Too
strange.......

 

[Steve Cochran]

I have no idea what the Microsoft Outlook Backup utility is. Also, you are
now referring to 3 different programs, so its not clear which you are
actually using.

steve

 

[denmarfl]

I have Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Mail installed. I use Outlook, my wife
uses Live Mail.

The Utility I was referring to is SCANPST.exe; the backup utility that is
part of Outlook.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Neither Outlook nor Windows Live Mail is covered in this newsgroup,
which is dedicated to he Windows Mail program.

 

[denmarfl]

Sorry; I opened the Mail Program just now and I was wrong....it is Windows
Mail....so I was posting in the correct newsgroup.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

As both Steve and I indicated earlier, there is no feature in Windows Mail
that makes a "backup". If you suspect Outlook of creating that backup,
ask about it in the Outlook newsgroup.

 

[denmarfl]

I still believe I am in the right Newsgroup....would it shed any further
light on this question if I reported, when I go to the external drive (L:\),
Click on the Folder Windows Mail\I see many Sub Folders (Backup; Compact;
Local Folders; Microsoft Communities; Stationary, etc...and if I click on
LOCAL FOLDERS, I see several more Sub Folders....Deleted items; Inbox;
Outbox; etc...and if I click on INBOX, I see files...clicking on any of the
Files OPENS a Windows mail InBox Message.

 

[Guest]

You can name a folder Backup, without creating the ability to use it to
help with backups.

Also, Windows Mail often has problems connecting to external drives
at all.

Robert Miles

 

[Steve Cochran]

So you have messages there. Windows Mail did NOT put them there.

steve