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Old April 28th, 2003 Top | #1
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My mom just e-mailed me, last night I upgraded her from office 2000 to office xp pro. Everything went well. She uses (and used) Outlook express to read her email. She just e-mailed me saying she "lost her address book".

I haven't been over there to look for it yet, but I might have to...

On my own computer, thinking I could find it on mine, then email her with some instructions, I couldn't even find my own address book [at least as a .wab file]

it seems the address book is only a .wab file when you choose to export it for backup.

where and what is the address book file normally, before someone wants to export or import a copy? That is where I'll tell her to look...

I wonder why the upgrade made her lose it?
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HERES WHAT ID DO... SEARCH FILES AND FOLDERS FOR .WAB FILES... IF YOU FIND IT IMPORT IT WITH THE WIZARD... THEN BACK UP THE OLD ONE (TO FLOPPY OR CD)
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When searching had you 'search hidden folders' enabled. The default path to the addressbook file is
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\ Microsoft\ Address Book\ username.wab
Application Data is a hidden folder. This may be the reason you didn't find it.

Other possibility see the last chapter on this site:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm
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You guys rock, thanks. I will take this info to her house and have at it.
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