I exported all my Windows Live mail files to a file on a USB drive. My question is....does this also export copies of the attachments? Put another ay , if I lose everything , I can import my email files back into Windows live mail , do the attchments come back too? is there any good and ffree email backup that will backup the attachments to or do I have to go through and save them (attachments) manually?

I honestly have no idea. I have not touched Windows Mail since that terrible version for Vista.

You may want to periodically export to another format like Thunderbird.

Google (http://www.google.com/#q=thunderbird+import+windows+live+mail&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:y&sa=X&ei=X1TnTpzyKKfr0gG1quCEAg&ved=0CAgQpwUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a4956b11788edd0&biw=1204&bih=687)

Importing and exporting your mail - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail)

Google contacts is the way to go with everything now a days, exporting and backing up windows mail is nothing like outlook express. Which was a great program but had its limitations based upon its ability to get corupted at over 1gb of size.
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