find e-mail addresses on old hard drive

Kaye · 01-20-2009, 11:45 PM

My old computer broke, can't be fixed but I've managed to get the hard drive out and attach it to my new computer. Where will i find my e-mail address book, in what file. Any help aprietiated.

Regards

Kaye

NaughtyMonkey · 01-21-2009, 12:49 AM

What email program are you using?

hackapelite · 01-21-2009, 01:04 AM

For Outlook Express, it will be located in
C:\Documents and Settings\<profile-name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book (The file should be named "<profile name>.wab")

For all/most MS Mail Programs (except for WLM I think) the contacts should be saved in a .wab file, so you may just want to search for files with "wab" extension. Some non-MS mail programs *may* use this format by default as well; try it.

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Kaye New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	find e-mail addresses on old hard drive My old computer broke, can't be fixed but I've managed to get the hard drive out and attach it to my new computer. Where will i find my e-mail address book, in what file. Any help aprietiated. Regards Kaye

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