AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Running AbleCommerce 7.0.5 build 14053

Searched here and found that in certain situations where you don't install with sample data, the default email templates are not installed. So like others suggested, I found the templates in the install directory and copied them to:

store/App_Data/EmailTemplates/1

But I still get the "No email templates..." mesage and they still don't show up. What am I missing??

Well,
I don't think copying email templates to store/App_Data/EmailTemplates/1 will work for you because each email template's settings need to be saved in database.
I will suggest you to add email templates one by one by going on Administration > Configure > Email > Templates > Add Email Template and manually copy each template contents in it.