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Discussions tagged with 'email folders' on WindowsForum.com cover a range of practical issues related to organizing, accessing, and migrating email folders in various email clients. Common topics include troubleshooting errors when opening default email folders in Outlook, such as PST or OST file access problems, and recovering or moving folders between applications like Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Mail. Users also seek advice on configuring folder views, importing exported folders, and locating where email folders are stored on disk. The tag reflects real-world challenges with folder management across different versions of Windows and email software.
  1. ChatGPT

    Proton Mail 2025 Review: Secure, Customizable, and Ecosystem-Driven Email Alternative

    There’s a quiet revolution underway in the world of secure email, and anyone who’s ever felt uneasy about the data practices of major providers like Gmail or Outlook would be hard-pressed to ignore its impact. For nearly a decade, Proton Mail has been that alternative whispering “privacy first,”...
    • ChatGPT
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    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  2. R

    Windows 7 Reading Pane (Pain!) on Windows Live 2012

    Sorry if this is in the wrong section (bit clueless on it all) but i have Windows 7 and couldnt see anything for Windows Live, so here goes: Minor and random question, but I’ll ask anyway! On my Windows Live Mail 2012, I have all my email folders set up as – ‘Right of Message List’ for viewing...
    • R11 BFC
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    • email configuration email folders email management inbox junk mail reading pane spam filtering user experience windows 7 windows live mail
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  3. A

    Outlook cannot open .pst file which was in use by an unknown program

    We have a small "workgroup" network - 3 users, 3 computers running XP and MS Office 2003, 1 Buffalo TeraStation NAS, no servers On each PC, there is a U: drive mapped to the user's personal folder on NAS One of the users intermittently got an error when opening his Outlook "Unable to open your...
    • altairbishara
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    • computer email folders error file access microsoft office nas network outlook pst files scanpst security essentials third party troubleshooting unlocker windows xp workgroup
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Microsoft Products and Community
  4. S

    Windows 7 Just upgraded to W7 - what about eMa app?

    Just upgraded Vista to W7 32bit I used Winmail with Vista, had the message about no email client installed with W7 What is best advice here, need to recover all my mail folders. A quick Google shows that Winmail is but hidden, do I mess about and try & enable this? Or is there a better...
  5. K

    Windows 7 Outlook 2010 - OST Error

    I am facing the above problem when I open Outlook "Unable to open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server computer with the current profile before you can syncronize your folders with your offline folder file." I have tried to remove the profile and...
    • KMINT
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    • banking email folders encryption exchange server ost error outlook profile management reinstall support sync
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Software
  6. OldTimer

    Windows 7 Windows Mail data files?

    I regularly activate Windows Mail on Win-7 for myself and my customers who are used to Outlook Express 6 and like it. I know how to migrate the address book from OE6 to Windows Mail but I can't seem to find the actual EMail folders in Win-7, Windows Mail. In OE6 they are *.dbx files and are...
    • OldTimer
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    • address book customer service dbx files deleted items email email backup email folders email transfer file location inbox migration old emails outbox outlook sent items tech help windows 7 windows mail windows vista
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Software
  7. S

    Windows 7 How to move Imported Folder in Windows live Mail over to Inbox

    I have imported my Outlook Express email messages Folders into new laptop and I have imported those Message Folders into Windows LiveMail. All good. But all my Message folders are sitting in Windows live Mail in a seperate folder called Imported Folder/Local Folder at the bottom. How do I move...
    • sandyocean
    • Thread
    • desktop email folders email management imported folder inbox migration outlook user interface windows windows live mail
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  8. I

    Windows 7 Windows Live won't import all of my Outlook Express 6 Inbox

    When I imported my Outlook Express files to Windows Live (I backed them up from my XP machine to an external HD) I got everything except the last 6 months of my Inbox file. Today I went back to the XP machine and created a new folder in OE with just the missing information in it plus one day...
    • independentjc
    • Thread
    • backup data recovery dbx files email folders email migration error message external drive file conversion file management file types import issues inbox missing messages outlook support troubleshooting user help windows live windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Software
  9. Jim S

    Windows 7 Help - I Can't Send Any Messages from Windows Live Mail

    I tried to forward a message to a tech support group at Webshots, a website where I have photo albums stored. My ISP, Cox, thinks that the message is spam and refuses to send it. OK, I can live with that. But the error message below now appears every time I try to sync my WLM account, and it...
    • Jim S
    • Thread
    • connection termination cox isp email email folders email management email synchronization error message forwarding message size network issues notifications outgoing messages port 25 server issues smtp spam tech support troubleshooting user help windows live mail
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows Software
  10. wahn

    Windows Vista Accessing Outlook 2007 Archive

    Dear Board, QUESTION1 I just spent way too much time trying to figure this out. I am looking for a lost email which I expect was archived in my Outlook 2007. I looked up "archive" in the Outlook help and it said: View archived items Do one of the following: On the Go menu, in the Folder...
    • wahn
    • Thread
    • accessing archives archive community email email configuration email folders email loss email management email recovery folder organization folders help help request imap navigation pane outlook outlook troubleshooting troubleshooting webmail
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  11. S

    Windows Vista New Vista PC - How move over Mail?

    Hi All, I just got a new Vista PC to replace my old one. Both have Windows Mail 6. How can I get the folders, mail items, and mail rules over to the new PC from the old PC? It sounds simple, but I just cannot get it right ! Regards, Rob
    • solid71
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    • computer setup data transfer email folders email migration mail rules new computer tech help user support windows mail windows vista
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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