Life is getting more complicated every day. Well, I did manage to install Live Mail on XP offline, and can see the folder used by both versions from 'either side' now. It did mean some backing up before hand, to be sure, and indeed lost all mail in the process, but was able to restore that (finally by hand). I don't like automatic restoring at all (which Live mail did at first), as then there were suddenly more folders than I ever use, and sent items were sent by me, but also to me
Inbox had mails with both to and from the same names/addresses.
How complicated is it to make something simple and customizable?
Google Chrome sends data to Google, I don't like that!
And yes, be careful on the web, now and ever! That's why I work offline, and occasionally switch (indeed) to go online. Less chance of being hacked and plundered.