I had to reload my Vista 64 machine because of problems.

[Michael Gould]

When I reloaded my Vista 64 machine it created a Windows.old directory which
appears to have most of my software that was loaded although for the most
part unusable because it doesn't appear to have the registry information
available. I can work around that.

My problem is that I had about 1400 email messages that I would hope that I
can recover. Does anyone know what the file extention is that is used with
Windows Mail?

Best Regards

Michael Gould

 

[Dave]

Windows Mail stores email in individual files (.eml) in the following
location:
C:\Users\<yourloginaccount>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

It stores your contacts in:
C:\Users\<yourloginaccount>\Contacts

Note: \AppData is normally hidden

 

[Steve Cochran]

Search for *.eml and include hidden files and folders and make sure those
are visible. Then you can use File | Import messages and point to the
parent directory of the message store, or you can manually drag the eml
files from Explorer and drop them overtop a WinMail folder's message list to
incorporate them into WinMail. See here for background info:
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve