How to remove Duplicate Email from inbox Live Mail.

there are hundreds or thousand of emails? Downloaded  two , three or five times each? One by one?

Hi, I have just reinstalled Windows 7 on my computer and loaded Windows essentials 2012 for my mails. I had a system crash earlier and could not export my Emails. Hence I had to import the mails from the last backup that I had of the mail folder. Having done that I have ended up with duplicates that were there on the backup and the ones that got freshly downloaded from the server.

Now I have ended up with a lot of duplicate emails that is eating up my space as each of these mails have heavy attachments.

Is there a tool or plug-in from Microsoft which can scan the folders of live mail and give me a list of mails that are duplicate and I could select whether to delete them or not?

Thank You in advance.

Nilesh

Have been working on this problem since September. Have contacted Microsoft numerous times - am told you have no dept. for WLM and told to go to Web for answers. There it gives instructions with Outlook. I do not have  Outlook and cannot afford too buy. No other help.

I have over 43,000 e-mails in my inbox.

? The account [ is that WLM?] is accessed on an email client{ is that Verizon my server/}

After Microsoft taking control of my computer several times and doing it wrong and many times with Verizon, the last Verizon tech suggested deleting  a mail from WLM then checking to see if it was still on Verizon mail as a precaution [have checked Verizon mail to keep mail on that server]. Only then would I be safe to delete all the duplicates.

I want to know how this happened and from what I see on the web Microsoft has been very irresponsible for letting this problem go on for so long.

I doo not understand the connection between Essentials and WLM. Will I lose mail if I reconfigure?

Do I do this before or after cross referencing with Verizon?

thank you for your consideration

Judy in PA

Dear Luz,

Duplicate Emails can be removed by going to the inbox or particular folders and deleting the duplicate emails one by one. But it would take a long time if one has 5000 plus emails. We need to have a tool which will detect duplicate emails and this Microsoft should provide  so that it can be easier.

Regards,

Novi

I keep having the same answer , like many other live mail users: “To reconfigure the account.”

I as many other people already have done it but NO BODY answer what the question is: how to remove the duplicated messages we already have.

Please, try to answer this request.

Thanks a lot,

Luz