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Question re: migrating email from Windows Live Mail to Outlook
I've reached the point of having to abandon my longtime-preferred mail client, Window Live Mail (running under Windows 10.0.19045), and move to the MS Outlook email client. According to what I read on the Web, this isn't going to be easy and may take several tries and numerous workarounds to get it accomplished.
My question is: in the process of moving and converting the .eml files to .pst format, will the WLM originals in the their existing location remain intact, or is it possible that messages will be corrupted or lost in the process? In other words, will the .eml files be copied or moved. Ideally, in case of a move/convert failure, WLM would continue to be operational, the unsuccessful transfer could be aborted and started over from scratch. Just nervous attempting this if there's a chance all could be lost. I don't now enough about the .eml file structure and storage to know if those files could be backed-up to a safe location and then restored to WLM in case of such a failure. Thanks for any tips.