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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted.
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:55:44 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie"
wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. I don't like Windows Live Mail, know next to nothing about it, don't know the answer, and can't help except to say that you *can* see what's happened directly. Download and install the free TeamViewer on your computer and have your friend do the same on hers. It's excellent and very easy to use. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:02:48 -0000, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:55:44 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. I don't like Windows Live Mail, know next to nothing about it, don't know the answer, and can't help except to say that you *can* see what's happened directly. Download and install the free TeamViewer on your computer and have your friend do the same on hers. It's excellent and very easy to use. Yes I could do that. If I can explain to her how to install it! And I don't know anything about Live Mail either. There's a built in viewer thing in Windows but I don't think it's easy to get it to connect over the internet as I think Windows firewall thinks it's a security hole? |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:15:47 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie"
wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:02:48 -0000, Ken Blake wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:55:44 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. I don't like Windows Live Mail, know next to nothing about it, don't know the answer, and can't help except to say that you *can* see what's happened directly. Download and install the free TeamViewer on your computer and have your friend do the same on hers. It's excellent and very easy to use. Yes I could do that. If I can explain to her how to install it! It's very easy to install. Even the friend that I most often used it with could do it, and she knew next to nothing about computers and was frightened to death by them. She's suffering from Alzheimer's now, and she was in the early stages of it when she installed it. She just has to follow the directions. Worst case, stay on the phone with her while she does it and you can walk her through it. And I don't know anything about Live Mail either. There's a built in viewer thing in Windows but I don't think it's easy to get it to connect over the internet as I think Windows firewall thinks it's a security hole? Even if you can't help her with this problem, it would be good for you both to have it installed, so you can help her with other problems in the future. My friend used to call me with a problem almost every week and we would use it together to solve her problem. While using it, she would watch what I was doing and I would always stay on the phone with her, so I could explain exactly what I was doing. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:26:15 -0000, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:15:47 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:02:48 -0000, Ken Blake wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:55:44 -0000, "Kristy Ogilvie" wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. I don't like Windows Live Mail, know next to nothing about it, don't know the answer, and can't help except to say that you *can* see what's happened directly. Download and install the free TeamViewer on your computer and have your friend do the same on hers. It's excellent and very easy to use. Yes I could do that. If I can explain to her how to install it! It's very easy to install. Even the friend that I most often used it with could do it, and she knew next to nothing about computers and was frightened to death by them. She's suffering from Alzheimer's now, and she was in the early stages of it when she installed it. She just has to follow the directions. Worst case, stay on the phone with her while she does it and you can walk her through it. Yes I may resort to that, although it means us both being at home at once. I work, and she has a very busy social life. I also need to know what the possible solutions are before I bother doing that. And I don't know anything about Live Mail either. There's a built in viewer thing in Windows but I don't think it's easy to get it to connect over the internet as I think Windows firewall thinks it's a security hole? Even if you can't help her with this problem, it would be good for you both to have it installed, so you can help her with other problems in the future. My friend used to call me with a problem almost every week and we would use it together to solve her problem. While using it, she would watch what I was doing and I would always stay on the phone with her, so I could explain exactly what I was doing. Most problems I just tell her what to do or email screenshots and she manages. Then we don't both have to be online at once. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:15:47 -0000, Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
Yes I could do that. If I can explain to her how to install it! There's nothing to install. Just send her the TeamViewer QuickSupport file through e-mail. All she needs to do is download the attachment (to Desktop is the easiest), then doubleclick on it and tell you the ID and Password. Or you can send her this URL to download it: https://download.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS.exe -- s|b |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:54:13 -0000, s|b wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:15:47 -0000, Kristy Ogilvie wrote: Yes I could do that. If I can explain to her how to install it! There's nothing to install. Just send her the TeamViewer QuickSupport file through e-mail. All she needs to do is download the attachment (to Desktop is the easiest), then doubleclick on it and tell you the ID and Password. Or you can send her this URL to download it: https://download.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS.exe Thanks, I hadn't heard of "quicksupport". |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
Boris wrote:
"Kristy Ogilvie" wrote in news On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? Hi, I'm running the same version of WLM 2012 on my Windows 10 laptop. I don't have any contacts folder outside of WLM, but if you do find one, the Import/Export function in WLM is: launch WLM find and click on the Contacts folder (for me, it's in the lower left along with Calendar, Feeds, etc. look at the ribbon of commands up top, and you should see Import, and Export Click Import to find: Comma separated values (.CSV) Windows Address Book (.WAB) Business card (.VCF) Address book for current user (I don't know what this one is for; I tried it, and it said, Completed, No contact information was imported.) This is the choice which will import from the user's Contacts folder, i.e. C:\Users\user\Contacts. So WLM calls the 'Contacts' folder the 'Address book'. Why use consistent terminology if you can confuse the user!? :-( Click Export to find: Comma separated values (.CSV) Business card (.VCF) Good luck. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? (Windows) File Explorer will show the contents as a list of name-adrress combinations. For example for myself, it shows: Frank Slootweg Frank.Slootweg@... So it's easy to check whether the entry should be there and if so, is still correct. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:52:35 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? (Windows) File Explorer will show the contents as a list of name-adrress combinations. For example for myself, it shows: Frank Slootweg Frank.Slootweg@... So it's easy to check whether the entry should be there and if so, is still correct. I don't have access to her machine just now and she's out, but on another forum I was told it's: C:/Users/{USERNAME}/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Live/Contacts/ not C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts Looking on my own machine, only the 2nd one exists (and is empty), but I've never set up Live Mail. |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:52:35 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? (Windows) File Explorer will show the contents as a list of name-adrress combinations. For example for myself, it shows: Frank Slootweg Frank.Slootweg@... So it's easy to check whether the entry should be there and if so, is still correct. I don't have access to her machine just now and she's out, but on another forum I was told it's: C:/Users/{USERNAME}/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Live/Contacts/ not C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts The confusion is in the difference between the *Windows* 'Contacts' folder and the 'Address book' *inside* Windows Live Mail. The former is accessible to *any* Windows program. The latter is *only* available to/within Windows Live Mail. Having an address_book/contacts_list/whatever within a program is rather stupid, but sadly that's how it is most of the time. For example a contact can have a street address. That's not very useful *in* a mail program, is it? But *outside* a mail program, i.e. as part of Windows, it can be very useful, for the user, for other programs, etc.. That's why on for example Android devices (smartphones/tablets) the 'Contacts' app/list is *seperate* from apps which might want to *use* those contacts, for example 'texting'/SMS app, phone (call) app, email app, instant messaging app, etc., etc.. However on Windows it's a mess and it's mostly each 'app' (program) for its own, i.e. the email program (WLM in this case) and instant messaging program (for example WhatsApp), each have their own non-shared contacts lists, which hence have to be maintained seperately. Looking on my own machine, only the 2nd one exists (and is empty), but I've never set up Live Mail. Your contacts list is probably *inside* Opera Mail. I.e. equally stupid as the one in WLM, the one in Thunderbird, the one in ..., ad infinitum. In Microsoft's defense, they *tried* to do the right thing with the 'Windows Address Book' (in earlier Windows versions) and the Windows 'Contacts' folder [1], but apparently could not convince/force programs to use those, not even their *own* WLM software. [1] I am not quite sure when the 'Windows Address Book' was replaced by the 'Contacts' folder, nor whether the 'Contacts' folder is still a standard part of recent/current Windows version. My Windows 8.1 system has a 'Contacts' folder, but that folder may have been copied/restored from my earlier Windows versions (XP and Vista). |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:56:46 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:52:35 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:37:23 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: A friend's Windows Live Mail (version 16.4.3528.331 in Windows 10) has reverted to a contacts list from 3 years ago. Any ideas how this could happen and how to fix it? They live 500 miles away so I can't see what's happened directly. It's not like it's just forgotten some, it's put ones in that she'd deleted. A bit of a long shot: It could be that your friend has accidentily imported an old contacts list, possible even one in the old deprecated (sp?) Windows Address Book (.wab file) format. Let her check if she has a *Windows* Contacts folder *outside* Windows Live Mail and if so, if that folder contains the correct contacts. Her (Windows) Contacts folder - if any - should be in: C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts. If so, she could: 1. Export the current 'bad' list from WLM, just to have a backup to return to. 2. Delete all contacts *in* WLM. 3. Import the good contacts from her (Windows) Contacts folder. I do no longer have WLM - nor its predecessor Windows Mail - so I can not give specific instructions, but from my notes I understand that the Import can be done with: (While in WLM File - Import - Windows Contacts... Similarly for the Export in step 1.: (While in WLM File - Export - Windows Contacts... Hope this helps. Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? (Windows) File Explorer will show the contents as a list of name-adrress combinations. For example for myself, it shows: Frank Slootweg Frank.Slootweg@... So it's easy to check whether the entry should be there and if so, is still correct. I don't have access to her machine just now and she's out, but on another forum I was told it's: C:/Users/{USERNAME}/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Live/Contacts/ not C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts The confusion is in the difference between the *Windows* 'Contacts' folder and the 'Address book' *inside* Windows Live Mail. The former is accessible to *any* Windows program. The latter is *only* available to/within Windows Live Mail. Having an address_book/contacts_list/whatever within a program is rather stupid, but sadly that's how it is most of the time. For example a contact can have a street address. That's not very useful *in* a mail program, is it? But *outside* a mail program, i.e. as part of Windows, it can be very useful, for the user, for other programs, etc.. That's why on for example Android devices (smartphones/tablets) the 'Contacts' app/list is *seperate* from apps which might want to *use* those contacts, for example 'texting'/SMS app, phone (call) app, email app, instant messaging app, etc., etc.. However on Windows it's a mess and it's mostly each 'app' (program) for its own, i.e. the email program (WLM in this case) and instant messaging program (for example WhatsApp), each have their own non-shared contacts lists, which hence have to be maintained seperately. Looking on my own machine, only the 2nd one exists (and is empty), but I've never set up Live Mail. Your contacts list is probably *inside* Opera Mail. I.e. equally stupid as the one in WLM, the one in Thunderbird, the one in ..., ad infinitum. In Microsoft's defense, they *tried* to do the right thing with the 'Windows Address Book' (in earlier Windows versions) and the Windows 'Contacts' folder [1], but apparently could not convince/force programs to use those, not even their *own* WLM software. [1] I am not quite sure when the 'Windows Address Book' was replaced by the 'Contacts' folder, nor whether the 'Contacts' folder is still a standard part of recent/current Windows version. My Windows 8.1 system has a 'Contacts' folder, but that folder may have been copied/restored from my earlier Windows versions (XP and Vista). Actually I prefer having them seperate for each application. I only use ONE email program, and I'm sure pretty much everyone else does the same, so why have the files accessed by more than one? |
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Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?
Kristy Ogilvie wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:56:46 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:52:35 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote: Kristy Ogilvie wrote: [...] Thanks. How will she know if the one in C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts is a good one? (Windows) File Explorer will show the contents as a list of name-adrress combinations. For example for myself, it shows: Frank Slootweg Frank.Slootweg@... So it's easy to check whether the entry should be there and if so, is still correct. I don't have access to her machine just now and she's out, but on another forum I was told it's: C:/Users/{USERNAME}/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Live/Contacts/ not C:\Users\your_friend\Contacts The confusion is in the difference between the *Windows* 'Contacts' folder and the 'Address book' *inside* Windows Live Mail. The former is accessible to *any* Windows program. The latter is *only* available to/within Windows Live Mail. Having an address_book/contacts_list/whatever within a program is rather stupid, but sadly that's how it is most of the time. For example a contact can have a street address. That's not very useful *in* a mail program, is it? But *outside* a mail program, i.e. as part of Windows, it can be very useful, for the user, for other programs, etc.. That's why on for example Android devices (smartphones/tablets) the 'Contacts' app/list is *seperate* from apps which might want to *use* those contacts, for example 'texting'/SMS app, phone (call) app, email app, instant messaging app, etc., etc.. However on Windows it's a mess and it's mostly each 'app' (program) for its own, i.e. the email program (WLM in this case) and instant messaging program (for example WhatsApp), each have their own non-shared contacts lists, which hence have to be maintained seperately. Looking on my own machine, only the 2nd one exists (and is empty), but I've never set up Live Mail. Your contacts list is probably *inside* Opera Mail. I.e. equally stupid as the one in WLM, the one in Thunderbird, the one in ..., ad infinitum. In Microsoft's defense, they *tried* to do the right thing with the 'Windows Address Book' (in earlier Windows versions) and the Windows 'Contacts' folder [1], but apparently could not convince/force programs to use those, not even their *own* WLM software. [1] I am not quite sure when the 'Windows Address Book' was replaced by the 'Contacts' folder, nor whether the 'Contacts' folder is still a standard part of recent/current Windows version. My Windows 8.1 system has a 'Contacts' folder, but that folder may have been copied/restored from my earlier Windows versions (XP and Vista). Actually I prefer having them seperate for each application. I only use ONE email program, and I'm sure pretty much everyone else does the same, so why have the files accessed by more than one? For - amongst others - the uses I mentioned: for example 'texting'/SMS app, phone (call) app, email app, instant messaging app, etc., etc.. These are partly phone-only/mainly, but also on Windows you can have instant messaging, (video/voice) calling, (route-)navigation, etc., etc.. On my (Windows) system, I have at least three programs, each with their own 'contacts' list, email (Thunderbird), instant messaging (WhatsApp) and video/voice calling (Skype). Rather stupid to have three seperate 'contacts' lists - with partly overlapping data -, which have to be *seperately* maintained, don't you think!? For example WhatsApp contacts and Skype contacts contain a (mobile) telephone number. Why would anyone want enter/update/delete that in/from *two* lists, instead of just one!? Anyway, either the (Android(/Apple(iOS))) one-contact-list method is the smart way *or* the seperate-contact-lists method is the smart way. Guess which of the two methods is used on billions and billions of devices!? |
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