Vista: Move the Windows Mail Storage Folder

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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Windows Mail stores your email, folders for newsgroups, and account settings in its own storage folder. By default, this storage folder is placed on the C drive, under your username in the AppData\Local\Microsoft\ Windows Mail directory. If you want to move the folder to a different location, follow these steps:


1. Click Tools and select Options.

2. Select the Advanced tab.

3. In the Maintenance and Troubleshooting section, click the Maintenance button.

4. In the Maintenance dialog box, click the Store Folder button.

5. In the Store Location dialog box, click the Change button.

6. Browse to the desired location and click OK.

7. Click OK to close the Store Location dialog box.

8. Click Close to close the Maintenance dialog box.

9. Click OK to close the Options dialog box.

 

3 Comments -


  1. Bill said on July 14, 2009

    On Windows Vista Mail storage,
    AppData is a hidden file. Do a Search for AppData, then properties on AppData and then unclick hidden and the file string can then be searched for mail folders-inbox, sent etc..

  2. Anonymous said on September 2, 2009

    would the existing emails be then stored different folder? OR would then onwards the new emails be stored in new folder leaving existing in old folder OR would the old emails get deleted on changing the storage location? pl shed some light on this. Thanks. sanjeev kapur

  3. Anonymous said on October 3, 2009

    you can type %appdata% in the Run to get application data and LocalMicrosoft Windows Mail directory

 

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