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Can't restore Outlook Express address book

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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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If you can open the tib file in windows exploreer you can try copying out the files you want and pasting them into the desired locations, Do this while Outlook is not loaded so it let's you overwrite an existing files.

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

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…