I'm trying to help my daughter (in CA, I'm in TX) with a new
computer. Her prior computer's motherboard was blown, so she bought a
new computer and the store suggested that she buy an enclosure for her
old hard drive so she could migrate the data from it to the new
computer's C drive. All is fine so far.
She started her new computer, got her documents moved from the E
drive (old C drive from old computer) to her new C drive; installed her
programs on the new C drive and things seems to be OK, EXCEPT - when she
opens OE none of her address contacts are in there (which I expected).
She called me at this point and I told her to do a search of the E
drive for .wab files thinking she could move them to the C drive and all
would be well -- BUT, the only .wab files found anywhere is the new one
on the new C drive which only contains the few addresses she entered
yesterday.
I don't understand where the files would have gone??? Shouldn't the
old address book she used while using the old drive still be there
somewhere? I'm sure I'm missing something important here,,, but
searched old entries in this forum for clues and couldn't find anything.
Any and all help appreciated. Thank you.
Marianne

Hi Marianne,

The path to the old Windows Address Book (*.wab) file should be similar to
this:

E:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book\User Name.wab

(E: being the old C: drive)

If this file is found move it to the desktop and point to it when importing
addresses (File | Import Address Book ...) into Outlook Express.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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"ssnazzy9" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to help my daughter (in CA, I'm in TX) with a new
computer. Her prior computer's motherboard was blown, so she bought a
new computer and the store suggested that she buy an enclosure for her
old hard drive so she could migrate the data from it to the new
computer's C drive. All is fine so far.
She started her new computer, got her documents moved from the E
drive (old C drive from old computer) to her new C drive; installed her
programs on the new C drive and things seems to be OK, EXCEPT - when she
opens OE none of her address contacts are in there (which I expected).
She called me at this point and I told her to do a search of the E
drive for .wab files thinking she could move them to the C drive and all
would be well -- BUT, the only .wab files found anywhere is the new one
on the new C drive which only contains the few addresses she entered
yesterday.
I don't understand where the files would have gone??? Shouldn't the
old address book she used while using the old drive still be there
somewhere? I'm sure I'm missing something important here,,, but
searched old entries in this forum for clues and couldn't find anything.
Any and all help appreciated. Thank you.
Marianne

For the WAB file, make sure that she does a Search that include system
and hidden files.

Also, if she had Outlook (part of Office) installed on her old PC, then
Outlook Express might have been set to share the Outlook contacts. In
that case, Outlook Express would have been using Outlook's PST file
instead of the WAB. In that case, you'll need to import the PST file
into Outlook installed on the new PC.

Also see:
The Windows Address Book (WAB)
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ssnazzy9" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to help my daughter (in CA, I'm in TX) with a new
computer. Her prior computer's motherboard was blown, so she bought a
new computer and the store suggested that she buy an enclosure for her
old hard drive so she could migrate the data from it to the new
computer's C drive. All is fine so far.
She started her new computer, got her documents moved from the E
drive (old C drive from old computer) to her new C drive; installed
her
programs on the new C drive and things seems to be OK, EXCEPT - when
she
opens OE none of her address contacts are in there (which I expected).
She called me at this point and I told her to do a search of the E
drive for .wab files thinking she could move them to the C drive and
all
would be well -- BUT, the only .wab files found anywhere is the new
one
on the new C drive which only contains the few addresses she entered
yesterday.
I don't understand where the files would have gone??? Shouldn't
the
old address book she used while using the old drive still be there
somewhere? I'm sure I'm missing something important here,,, but
searched old entries in this forum for clues and couldn't find
anything.
Any and all help appreciated. Thank you.
Marianne

"ssnazzy9" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to help my daughter (in CA, I'm in TX) with a new
computer. Her prior computer's motherboard was blown, so she bought a
new computer and the store suggested that she buy an enclosure for her
old hard drive so she could migrate the data from it to the new
computer's C drive. All is fine so far.
She started her new computer, got her documents moved from the E
drive (old C drive from old computer) to her new C drive; installed her
programs on the new C drive and things seems to be OK, EXCEPT - when she
opens OE none of her address contacts are in there (which I expected).
She called me at this point and I told her to do a search of the E
drive for .wab files thinking she could move them to the C drive and all
would be well -- BUT, the only .wab files found anywhere is the new one
on the new C drive which only contains the few addresses she entered
yesterday.
I don't understand where the files would have gone??? Shouldn't the
old address book she used while using the old drive still be there
somewhere? I'm sure I'm missing something important here,,, but
searched old entries in this forum for clues and couldn't find anything.
Any and all help appreciated. Thank you.
Marianne

Are the *.wab member(s) hidden?



"i_takeuti" . ne.jp wrote in message
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"ssnazzy9" wrote in message
...
I'm trying to help my daughter (in CA, I'm in TX) with a new
computer. Her prior computer's motherboard was blown, so she bought a
new computer and the store suggested that she buy an enclosure for her
old hard drive so she could migrate the data from it to the new
computer's C drive. All is fine so far.
She started her new computer, got her documents moved from the E
drive (old C drive from old computer) to her new C drive; installed her
programs on the new C drive and things seems to be OK, EXCEPT - when she
opens OE none of her address contacts are in there (which I expected).
She called me at this point and I told her to do a search of the E
drive for .wab files thinking she could move them to the C drive and all
would be well -- BUT, the only .wab files found anywhere is the new one
on the new C drive which only contains the few addresses she entered
yesterday.
I don't understand where the files would have gone??? Shouldn't the
old address book she used while using the old drive still be there
somewhere? I'm sure I'm missing something important here,,, but
searched old entries in this forum for clues and couldn't find anything.
Any and all help appreciated. Thank you.
Marianne