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Re: OE Address Book Recovery program? <-- solution
de Larry Sabo 05/21/2006 10:38
The Six Million Dollar Man <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>* Larry Sabo:
>> A neighbour has a corrupted Address Book and I found a shareware
>> program that can recover the entries, but have been unable to find a
>> freeware program to do so. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> PS - The problem is manifest as an error when he tries to open the
>> Adrress Book: "The Address Book failed to load. Outlook Express is
>> incorrectly configured, please re-install." I saved a copy of the
>> Address Book elsewhere then deleted the original, which caused OE to
>> build a new, empty one, which opens fine. I'd like to recover what I
>> can from the corrupted Address Book.
>
>Is this Microsoft Knowledge Base article of any help?
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917288
That does the trick! Thanks very much. To summarize, I
- uninstalled cumulative security update 911567; rebooted
- copied the corrupted Address Book to another location
- deleted all wab files in the Address Book folder
- opened OE, which automatically created a new, empty Address Book
- imported the address from the (corrupted) backup copy
- everything loaded and looks fine!
- closed OE
I then...
- installed cumulative security update 911567 again; rebooted
- verified that the new Address Book with the imported (recovered )
addresses works. It does!
I'll tuck that away for future reference.
Cheers, Larry