Re: Contacts List has disappeared

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From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:41:55 -0500

Oh, gees...

Bob, is the surviving, original identity the default Main Identity? By any
chance, are the missing contacts in its Shared Contacts folder (View>Folders
and Groups)?
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    Start > Run > [type in] wab /a [note the space] > OK

Are they anywhere in here? See if you can export them from there (either as
WAB or text [CSV] file). If so, you can then import the exported file into
the surviving Address Book.
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In WindowsXP and 2000, the OE user files (DBX and WAB) are by default marked
as hidden. To view these files in Explorer, you must enable Show Hidden
Files and Folders under Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View.

    WinKey+F > search for *.wa~ [Advanced>Search hidden...]

Are they in any of these? Your automatically maintained backup Address
Books will have a WAB~ extension in SP2.
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All About Address Book
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
Bob Wood wrote:
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23euK1j6vEHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl
>
>> Don't forget to sacrifice a black chicken during the next New Moon
>> or it'll come back!
>  aaaggghhh!!!!    I didn't find the black chicken quickly enough!!!!
>
> In pursuit of a solution to the other problem (of Missing Characters) I
> created a new identity.  I then tested the block of text in the new
> identity, found that the same problem occurred and reported back in the
> other thread.    I then deleted that identity; you might be ahead of me
> here!!!   :-(        This action seems to have deleted all entries from 
> the
> address book in my original identity.
>
> When I set up the new identity, I was given the choice of importing an
> address book into that new identity    -    I declined the offer.  I
> presumed therefore that the address book would stay where it was in my
> original identity.
>
> Have I gone from 1,080 addresses to none at all in the space of half an
> hour.   Is the address book retrievable?
>
>
>
>
> Bob

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