Recover lost contacts in windows live mail

Sort by the Deleted On column to help find the contacts from a subfolder that was permanently deleted because the contacts would all have the same date. All items in the Recoverable Items folder—including contacts—are represented by the same icon, which looks like an envelope.

You can also recover multiple adjacent contacts by clicking the first item, holding down the Shift key, and then clicking the last contact you want to recover. Your admin may have specified how long items in the Recoverable Items folder are available for recovery. After this 14 days, your admin may still be able to recover an item. If you can't find a contact in the Recoverable Items folder, ask your admin if they can recover it. Unfortunately, if you or your admin can't find a contact in the Recoverable Items folder, it's probably been permanently deleted from Outlook and can't be recovered.

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Hello, My old computer which was running Windows 7 Ultimate recently died due to a power glitch. I bought a new one and I have the old drives installed in the new computer which is running Windows 7 Pro.

I was able to transfer my Windows Live Mail messages from the old computer to the new one, but I cannot retrieve the contacts. Thanks in advance for any help that you might be able to offer. This is a very aggravating problem. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Rohit Siddegowda. Refer to the article for more information: How do I import and export email, contacts, and calendars with Windows Live Mail? How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Rohit Siddegowda's post on June 1, Dear Rohit, Thank you for your reply. The link that you sent me presumes that I can export the contacts from my old working machine, but I only have the hard drives from the old machine I can no longer run anything on the old machine , and I can only run the new version of Windows Live Mail from my new machine which doesn't have the contacts.

In reply to EmoryWalton's post on June 1, Hi Emory, Unfortunately, you will not be able copy the contacts from the folder. I agree with the Privacy Policy regarding my personal data. More on this Topic January 13, Read More. January 12, Learn how to fix this from our guide. January 11, Learn more. Sign In. How to restore deleted contacts in Hotmail and in Windows Live Messenger.