WLM showing continuous “publishing photo album” message!

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I’m at the end of my tether! Yesterday I tried to email a couple of photos and got a green line stating that Windows Live Mail was “publishing photo album”…forever! Today I could not access my mail at all because this box appeared so I Googled and read about other people having this problem. One solution advised was to uninstall Windows Live photos (can’t recall the correct name) and in the control panel get Windows Live Essentials to repair all Windows Live Applications. I’ve done this, after first moving all of my photographs to Picasa. I was able to get into my emails and they downloaded but I then got a message, basically error 80004003, which I think is an email stuck in the outbox so I found the outbox and deleted the photo email. I rebooted my W7 64 bit Lenovo desktop PC but again I can’t get into Windows Live Mail…that blasted green bar is showing again with “publishing photo album”….but there should not be any emails with photos waiting to go!!!

If I uninstall Windows Live Mail and reinstall it again, will I lose all my emails? Will I have to start from scratch? Is there another solution …please?

I have just read some advice , ie delete all WLM.exe in task manager…any good?

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I seem to have solved the problem (I hope!). I personalised Windows and altered the photos I’m asking it to display on the desktop. The error seems to have disapeared from WLM, so it was obviously something to do with the photos on my HD.

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“I personalised Windows and altered the photos I’m asking it to display on the desktop”
That would suggest the problem is with photos that are in use, doesn’t have full access to them.

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Thanks for taking the time to reply. I’m hoping that the issue has been solved since I got rid of my Windows pictures and now have them all in Picasa. The photos that I had attempted to email were recent ones downloaded from photos posted to Facebook and not ones that I was using as a desktop background. 😀

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The conversation here might help explain what’s been happening: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/livemail-email/photo-email-feature-broken/d90e9b9e-5344-4941-9d40-edb0a9397a99

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Thank you for this information. I have added my solution to this conversation as, now that I no longer have Windows handling my photos, I have had no further problems with WLM.

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Thank you for taking the time to add to it.

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