Posted By: fabian | Aug 31st @ 9:47 AM
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I need to change the primary e-mail address (hotmail) to another e-mail adresse (also hotmail) ... or move my exsiting contacts from the former to the latter account. I have searched and searched ... and many people claim that you cannot do that, if you are using hotmail. Do i really need to create a gmail account in order to keep my contacts? Sad

 

Do I have to reinvite all my contacts or is there another option. I can see a passport.com that you can linked accounts ... i have done that but that does not move the contact.

 

Any idea?

giovanni
giovanni
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If you have a copy of Outlook around you can use Outlook Connector to sync  your hotmail accounts with the client and then drag and dromp from one folder to the other. This is more like a workaround than an ideal solution, but it should work.

Bas
Bas
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I requested this years ago, and whoever was the Live ID PM back then said they were "looking into it." It's incredibly annoying.

Live ID sucks because it is incredibly hard to get things to transfer.

 

Luckily, Jeff helped consolidate C9.

 

I have 3 Live IDs. A legacy hotmail account. Then I wanted a shorter @live.com account. Then my school switched to Live@Edu.

 

So incredibly annoying. For connect.microsoft.com I have to use my @ hotmail . For live mail, I use @live.com . For OSU mail, I use @buckeyemail.osu.edu.

 

There is no proper merge or permission editor.

Bas
Bas
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I have everything, everything I want on one Live ID. My XBox Gamertag, my MCP things, Channel 9, MSDN forums, e-mail, everything. Except messenger. Which means when I sign into WLM, the contacts are different than those in Messenger. Which means I always have to use two different Live ID's to sign in, and Windows always chooses the other one by default. I could tell all my contacts to add my account on the new Live ID, but that's a nightmare. I don't want to lose their message histories, and I don't want them to lose mine. People who are offline may not get the "Use this new account!" message. All sorts of stuff. The thing is that I don't want to change messenger accounts: I want to use a different Live ID to sign into it. That way I can finally ditch that old messenger email address and nobody on my contact list will know what happened. This isn't possible, and if past correspondence with the Live ID team is any indication, it won't be for years, if ever.

Bas
Bas
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The thing is, for messenger at least, that's not even it. There's some alphanumeric number that's your messenger unique profile ID or something. There is (or was) some way to get it, but I'm not sure if it still works. I saved mine in OneNote, hoping that one day some Microsoft employee will say "Oh, tell me your Messenger unique profile ID, and I'll just change the sign in email address to your other Live ID's email address". It's like a dream I'm perpetually chasing.

giovanni
giovanni
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Sorry, wish I could help more. There is a unique ID in your account (a 16 digit hex number apparenlty) that shows in your account details. But apparently this is unique for every account I linked, so I am assuming what you are saying about the primary key is not far from the truth Wink

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