Outlook express problems after HD crash

[Norm]

Andy, usually the dbx files are stored in application data\identities and
the wab file is kept in windows\application data\microsoft\address book.
Just checking your location because I've done the import function numerous
times and have never had a problem.

 

[AndyB]

Andy, usually the dbx files are stored in application data\identities and
the wab file is kept in windows\application data\microsoft\address book.
Just checking your location because I've done the import function numerous
times and have never had a problem.

thanks mate,

and sorry to all about the date error.

AndyB

 

[@drian]

2010? I assume that is deliberate?

@drian.

 

[DaveW]

Thanks, Andy, for the corrupted date stamp...

 

[ToolPackinMama]

Here's a problem to test your brains.

I had a problem with a HD, so I fitted a new one with the original as a
slave.
I installed win98 onto the new HD, and can get all of the files from the
original no problem.

What I can't do is get my original address book info transferred across.
I can find the files in

D:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities

but I can't move it across to the C drive.

I have tried to import the old WAB file into the newly installed add book,
but to no avail.

If I do a search for .wab files, I can find both the new and old, and the
old is much bigger, so I am sure the info is safe.

Help please

<philosopher> Why do we torture ourselves like this? </philosopher>

 

[Overlord]

If you can't import the file, how do you know it's not one of the buggered
files your HD ate? Have you tried renaming the NEW *.wab to whatever.wab.old
and copying your old wab file into that directory?
Are your identities in both copies of OE the same? ie. is the name of both
wab files the same; d:\andy.wab and c:\andy.wab?

No doubt there's an easier way to do it.... but.... if all else fails....
Open your address book in the new copy of OE.
Open your old wab in notepad....
Scroll the hell out of it and copy and paste the addresses into the, opened
in OE, new blank address book.

It'll work if the old wab is intact.....

It won't be fun.....

Here's a problem to test your brains.

I had a problem with a HD, so I fitted a new one with the original as a
slave.
I installed win98 onto the new HD, and can get all of the files from the
original no problem.

What I can't do is get my original address book info transferred across.
I can find the files in

D:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities

but I can't move it across to the C drive.

I have tried to import the old WAB file into the newly installed add book,
but to no avail.

If I do a search for .wab files, I can find both the new and old, and the
old is much bigger, so I am sure the info is safe.

Help please

TIA

AndyB

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[Paul]

Do you have a WAB here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book\

...where <username> is your windows login name?

That's the default location for the WAB every time I've looked for it.
You can open it just by double-clicking it, even if it's not the one
associated with your profile.

If that is the one you want, I would recommend moving it into your "My
Documents" folder and editing the registry to indicate that is the
address book for your profile. More on that if you manage to find the
WAB you want.

Neat. The original message appeared sometime back in 2003, but the poster
had set the date of their computer to 2010. For some reason, that post is
now visible in your client

http://www.techiehq.net/pc-hardware/outlook-express-problems-after-hd-crash-45021.html

I figured it might have been re-injected or something, but I don't think so.
It looks like it's a date problem.

Google didn't archive the original post, only the answers. So maybe AndyB
advancing the date by seven years, managed that. He apologizes in the thread,
for his date mistake.

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.c...read/thread/948c99fd525a7d40/db286e5df8023cdb

Paul

 

[Mike Easter]

Neat. The original message appeared sometime back in 2003, but the poster
had set the date of their computer to 2010. For some reason, that post is
now visible in your client

Google didn't archive the original post, only the answers.

The OP is in Howard Knight's archive.

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=127997247700

The NPD is 2003 Sep 22

NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:55:41 GMT

 

[AndyB]

Here's a problem to test your brains.

I had a problem with a HD, so I fitted a new one with the original as a
slave.
I installed win98 onto the new HD, and can get all of the files from the
original no problem.

What I can't do is get my original address book info transferred across.
I can find the files in

D:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities

but I can't move it across to the C drive.

I have tried to import the old WAB file into the newly installed add book,
but to no avail.

If I do a search for .wab files, I can find both the new and old, and the
old is much bigger, so I am sure the info is safe.

Help please

TIA

AndyB