I'm happy to hear your success, bearbull. :-)

Yes, I'm aware WLM being phased out. Even then, nothing stops users from continuing to use it.

The reason I like it is because it handles each email as an individual file and this minimizes data...

I had the same problem. My solution was:
Move Windows Live Mail's storage folder outside of the AppData folder. I have actually created a subfolder within My Documents, named it 'AllMyEmails' - the...