Business Contact Management Manual Backup

[Andrew]

Hi,
I have a machine with windows XP Pro, the harddrive is
dying but i can still get data off it even though I cannot
boot the OS.

I need to keep all of my contacts from BCM.
I have found a couple of files
(MSBusinessContactManager.mdf and
MSBusinessContactManager.ldf) which are under docs and
settings\username\local setting\microsoft etc... which i
am guessing may contain the relevant data.

my question is:
do i have the right files?
and if so, how do i import them again after a re-install?

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Robert Crayk]

Check out http://www.slipstick.com/bcm/bcmfaq.aspx

 

[Rob Schneider]

I've not tried, but what if you use the backup functionality, and then
restore the resulting file back into the second machine? Menu:
File/Business Database ...

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Guest]

I cant boot the machine so the backup menu is out of the
question.
Thanks for your effort.
any other ideas?

Andrew.

 

[Robert Crayk]

BCM creates two database files on first run, and it puts them in the path,
which is in the user profile directory (C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Business
Contact Manager) and is a local settings directory - note that it does not
roam - which are the MSBusinessContactManager.mdf and
MSBusinessContactManager.ldf files. These files make up the default
database, which when created occupy a minimum file size of 35 MB on disk. So
if you havent created a new database the files listed above is what you are
after.

 

[Robert Crayk]

BCM creates two database files on first run, which are the
MSBusinessContactManager.mdf and
MSBusinessContactManager.ldf files. These files make up the default
database, which when created occupy a minimum file size of 35 MB on disk. So
if you havent created a new database the files listed above is what you are
after, these files in my system are located C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office11\Business Contact Manager\DB, you should be able to link
these files to BCM when you run it, you may have to rename both of them
first (just in case BCM tries to overwrite).

 

[Robert Crayk]

BCM creates two database files on first run, which are the
MSBusinessContactManager.mdf and
MSBusinessContactManager.ldf files. These files make up the default
database, which when created occupy a minimum file size of 35 MB on disk. So
if you havent created a new database the files listed above is what you are
after, these files in my system are located C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office11\Business Contact Manager\DB, you should be able to link
these files to BCM when you run it, you may have to rename both of them
first (just in case BCM tries to overwrite).

 

[Robert Crayk]

Ignore my last post:
BCM creates two database files on first run, which are the
MSBusinessContactManager.mdf and
MSBusinessContactManager.ldf files. These files make up the default
database, which when created occupy a minimum file size of 35 MB on disk. So
if you havent created a new database the files listed above is what you are
after, these files in my system are located C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office11\Business Contact Manager\DB, you should be able to link
these files to BCM when you run it, you may have to rename both of them
first (just in case BCM tries to overwrite).

 

[Andrew]

Thanks very much for your help,
that's just what I was after.