
WLM doesn’t delete the contents of your storage folder if uninstalled.

Avoid lengthy filenames for folders as well. Your individual emails and folders will end up being duplicated and oddly named. Warning: Move to an empty folder on, preferably, a partition and not a folder that is already used for email. This should be done while your setting up the client and before all your messages have been imported. To move the store folder in WLM: Tools>Options>Advanced>Maintainance>Store folder. This then can be burned to disk or kept on a USB stick. You can do 2 forms of backup A hard copy of the store folder in it’s entirety, and an exportive backup of all your messages and email accounts. That will serve to import from once you have your client installed and move your store folder over to the other empty one. Give them a name, then export all your messages, contacts, & account settings to this folder.

Make a folder with two subfolders, then export to one of the subfolders. My preference is a partition off of the main drive. Usually C:Users/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail. Before moving your store folder, decide on a location other than the default area that MS and the WLM client hasĭevised for you.
