NOTE: This is not really about lost or deleted mail--none of the 3 topic options were appropriate......
One day I found many of my email folders missing from my WLM 2012. I found all of them, with their messages, in a few Imported Foldersin the message store (C:\Users\Janet\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Storage Folders). The messages were openable and readable. Since these Imported folders did not appear in my WLM tree, I moved them back to the basic "Storage Folders"from within Windows Explorer. Now I find WLM keeps recreating these folders as Folder Name (1) with all the messages intact, and leaving the original Folder Name (without the 1) empty. I keep deleting/moving/renaming to get each folder to appear only once without the (1) or (2) and with all the messages intact, but WML keeps recreating a new folder (1) or (2), taking all the messages and leaving the non-numbered folder empty. This is allin C:\Users\Janet\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Storage Folders.
In WLM, I am getting all my emails from those folders duplicated but with a "Message cannot be found" content. So for most of my emails, I havethe original with the content intact plus one or two or three copies of the same email but with the "Message cannot be found" content
Since there are thousands of emails, I was hoping there might be a way to simply select all the ones with the "Message cannot be found" content to delete them all in one fell swoop. All instructions I have found forrebuilding the Windows Live Mail message store seem not to be for WLM om Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, as I do not have the options they call for e.g., Tools in the Menu Bar.
I ran a repair, but it did not affect these folders.
How can I get rid of the duplicate folders and emails?
Thanks for any help!
Janet
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
No web-based email!
"Windows Live Mail 2012"