Can't restore Outlook Express address book
Hi,
I was running Acronis True Image Home 9.0 on a Windows XP machine that had a hard drive failure.
I installed a trial version of Acronis True Image Home 12.0 on my new Windows 7 64 bit OS machine and tried restoring the documents folder from my archived drive which is on an External USB drive.
For some reason I can't get the "Application Data" folder to come back for me. In fact, I can't even see it in the archive unless I do a find on it. If I do a find on "*.wab" I find several files that seem to be located in a path that would be in "Documents and Settings/Username/Application data/".
So the file seems to be there but it is not coming back when I do a restore.
After I do the find the program hangs on me and I am unable to do anything with the file.
Why am I not getting this file back when I do a restore on the root folder that contains it? Is it because I am using a trial version?
I would appreciate any help with my problem.
Thanks,
Steve

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Yes, that worked! A tech support guy took control of my PC this morning and did it that way and then the Application Data folder showed up. He said it was a hidden file and didn't show in the explore folder tree from within Acronis but it did show up in Windows explorer.
So I got all my contacts back and now I'm trying to get my old emails if possible. They are stored in a file with an extension .dbx and for some reason I can't get Windows Live Mail to see that file despite the fact that it is sitting there and visible on my Windows 7 machine. All the tech notes I could find online said this file needs to be imported first into WIndows Live Mail then Exported into a format that Outlook can read.
If anyone has any ideas why Windows Live Mail can't see the dbx when I try to import it I would appreciate any feedback on that issue. I made sure the file has read write permissions.
Thanks for your help!
Steve
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Hi Stephen,
Don't bother with the SPAM above. Love option #3... send to floppy drive.
Try this:
http://code.google.com/p/undbx/
This may also help:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook-express#tabs=windows…
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