Re: No addr book after KB914454
- From: "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:08:52 -0400
"Klausc" <Klausc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for your prompt response. I UNinstalled KB911567 and reinstalled
it as per your directions. My address book still no longer exists. It
puzzles me too, that an update to Outlook would have an effect on Express. A
search of address book on my PC comes back negative.
It may help to describe how you are searching for your address book.
E.g. OE is known to backup its .wab by calling it .wa~ At one point
after another bad update OE was even creating something called only ~
(tilde as the filename with no extension.) In case this particular fiasco
created an even different backup name what I would try as a last resort
is searching for something which you know your Address book should contain.
A problem then will be that the Address book contains doublebyte
character strings and Search Companion doesn't know how to find
strings in such a representation. A workaround for that using standard
tools is to use findstr /s /m /i ".s.t.r.i.n.g" *
(in a cmd window positioned at the root directory of the drive you hope
to find the file on.)
E.g. ".s.t.r.i.n.g" is an example of a word you might want to find, where the
letters in the word are each preceded by a period. (Period is a regular
expression metacharacter which will match anything. Fortunately in most cases
a doublebyte alphabetic character is represented simply by a null followed by
the same singlebyte character. Hence the periods match the nulls in the
doublebyte character and the letter character matches the other half,
thus allowing you to find a file which contains the string you are using
as a search criterion, when written in doublebyte characters.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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I guess it is time to
go to a back up copy and get the old addresses back.
At least I am not totally out of the water.
Thank you for your support,
Klaus
"Ottmar Freudenberger" wrote:
"Klausc" <Klausc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
Running win XP media center edition, Yesterday(?) I applied 5 updates, one
for outlook express junk mail. Reboot was required, but I was in the middle
of typing an email, so I waited to reboot. When the system came back up, I
accessed outlook express and the box came up: OE is not your current default,
would you like it to be? Reply yes.
Now there is no address book!!!
That issue has nothing to do with KB914454 (which isn't even for
OE but MS-Outlook), but with KB911567, the Cumulative Update for
OE. Uninstall it first via Software ("Show updates" hat to be
enabled to see the patch in there.
If you're on Windows XP SP2, download KB911567 from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0dd827bc-6fa1-405a-933e-fb422a4e8096&DisplayLang=en
If you're on Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000, that would be
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cda93501-99cb-4f28-bb73-6438cad081db&DisplayLang=en
Prior to installing the patch by executing the EXE files you've
downloaded for your Windows version via the above link(s), please
make sure, that you've shut down Outlook Express, the Windows
Adressbook and preferably *every* application running in the
background, especially AntiVirus software.
HTH,
Freudi
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