What about Windows Live Mail Backup?
After writing my last post about gmail backup software, I had several people asking me about windows live backup software. Now I won’t go over all the reasons again as to why you want to backup your software. However let me tell you this, I have a friend who recently lost a bunch of his important emails. He didn’t have anything back upped, he thought he didn’t need to, but he actually accidently deleted them himself!! What a doofus. He didn’t notice he deleted these emails before it was too late. The emails couldn’t be recovered anymore. Of course I linked him to my last post about gmail backup software.
I realized that deleting emails yourself accidently is probably the biggest reason for losing important emails. Sometimes you just delete an email thinking it’s no longer useful and later find out it is still an important email and need the information in it. At other times you delete an email thinking it’s a different useless email. And sometimes you just delete an email thinking it’s spam. So there you have it, even more reasons to make a backup of your email database.
Windows live is actually the easiest email client to backup. Just watched this video that I found on youtube for instructions.
If you still don’t understand. Let me explain it in step by step process.
- Step 1: Open your Windows Live Mail
- Step 2: Right click a folder and set the synchronisations settings to all messages
- Step 3: Repeat step 2 for all folders in windows live mail
- Step 4: Resize the window so it’s not full screen
- Step 5: Create a new folder on your computer that functions as your backup folder
- Step 6: Select the emails you want to have a backup for
- Step 7: Drag (holding down the mouse button) the emails into the backup folder you created before in step 5
- Step 8: Actually there is not step 8 you’re done
This is by far the easiest way to create a backup for your windows live mail and easier than creating a backup for any other email client. Because creating a backup is so easy I have even considered switching to windows live mail myself.
