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I am probably missing this, but do you have a basic restore procedure anywhere? I have just started experimenting a bit. Some things I am not sure about: office activation, windows live/outlook restoration, chrome profile, Firefox profile, in all of these items do I need to install these programs prior to restoration? will it incorporate the data, or do I need to manually tweak each of these programs to reference the information?
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Hi,
There is no problem installing the softwares before or after the restoration process. The only thing I have to warn about is ms outlook data : it must not have been started before the restoration or this will not work.
Regards
Fab
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For this current system I am using I tried transferring windows Live mail 2012 from a windows 7 home machine to a windows 7 home machine. It did all of the mail, but did not do the contacts. Any idea what might be going on?
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For this current system I am using I tried transferring windows Live mail 2012 from a windows 7 home machine to a windows 7 home machine. It did all of the mail, but did not do the contacts. Any idea what might be going on?
No idea for now. This needs investigation on my side. I will post back here as soon as I have some results
Fab
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thanks
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thanks
Just for my information : did you run wlm before restoring or not ? This answer can help for my tests
Fab
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I am pretty certain I restored prior to running windows live mail.
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Thanks
Fab
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I have just done a test in harder conditions than yours but did not experience the issue.
I was performing a direct data transfer from Windows 7/WLM2012 to Windows Vista/WLM2011. The source user account is password protected, the target not. WLM was the only thing selected for the transfer.
Were you performing a direct transfer too or were you doing a backup then restore ?
If you still can do it, would that be possible that you perform the same job in debug mode ?
To enable this mode, right click the program's title bar and select "Debug mode". Then, do the job like you did and send the debug report when the program closes (just fill the email field and comments then click the "send" button). That will give me more clues.
Thanks!
Fab
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I tried a second recovery in debug mode, it gave my an access violation error when I tried to send it. I did a backup and restore. I will try a direct copy like you did next to see if that changes things.
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the second install worked using the copy and restore method(I needed to reboot, initially it gave temp profile error). I am not sure why the first time did not get the contacts, but did the second did. I did the same procedure. Thanks for your help
Last edited by Kaizen (2015-03-06 17:55:19)
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May I ask you a question, this will just help my understanding of doing some of these things manually, or just how things work? In Windows Live Mail in particular, besides just copying the "windows live mail" and "windows live"(contacts) directories, do you have to do other things like change permissions or alter the registry to make it import properly? I appreciate any time you take to answer this question.
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May I ask you a question, this will just help my understanding of doing some of these things manually, or just how things work? In Windows Live Mail in particular, besides just copying the "windows live mail" and "windows live"(contacts) directories, do you have to do other things like change permissions or alter the registry to make it import properly? I appreciate any time you take to answer this question.
Yes, there are some registry values written after file restore. They make wlm able to find emails, accounts and contacts when it is started. For example, it adds a registry string value named like "user_profile_path\contacts\default" at "hkcu\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live Contacts\Database" and its value is the contacts database file name (guid).
Fab
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thanks for taking the time to explain that!
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