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RE: Saving a private address book.

Tippon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:36:13 GMT

No offence caused or taken Bruce :)

Everyone's entitled to make mistakes, but admitting them takes more than some people have :)

RE: Saving a private address book.

Bruce R — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:57:47 GMT

Hi Spike09 :)
You are quite right, comes of using a small XP screen to alternate between copies of FF3 !
And further more I am also quite WRONG about WAB.
Simply running WAB invokes the current *.wab data file. 'Export' can then allow creation of an archive. Double-clicking on a discrete *.wab archive then invokes wab.exe to display its specific content. Not too proud to admit when I am wrong !
Apologies to all concerned, especially to those who took offence.
Bruce R

RE: Saving a private address book.

spike09 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:38:23 GMT

[quote][b]Bruce R (07/07/2008)[/b][hr]Hi Phitore :)
You are teaching me some new tricks, because I hadn't realized that Windows was now using a *.wab extension for its [b]wab.exe[/b] shared Address Book. An old-fashioned DOS-like, inclusive file, it can simply be copied to archive different date and time Address Books. :w00t:
Mind you I had missed 'refined the search' words after 'did the search but found nothing'. ;)
Apologies for the pedantry. :P[/quote] it's not the linux forums Bruce it is Tippon that needs the apologies not phitore :D:P;)

RE: Saving a private address book.

Bruce R — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:33:28 GMT

Hi Phitore :)
You are teaching me some new tricks, because I hadn't realized that Windows was now using a *.wab extension for its [b]wab.exe[/b] shared Address Book. An old-fashioned DOS-like, inclusive file, it can simply be copied to archive different date and time Address Books. :w00t:
Mind you I had missed 'refined the search' words after 'did the search but found nothing'. ;)
Apologies for the pedantry. :P

RE: Saving a private address book.

Tippon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:42:20 GMT

Bruce, have a look above, it worked ;)

* is a wildcard, and will search for anything before the .wab Windows Address Book extension. Just using wab as the search term will bring up everything with wab anywhere in the name, most of which will be irrelevant :)

Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but clarification avoids confusion :)

RE: Saving a private address book.

Bruce R — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:54:48 GMT

Try searching for just [b]wab[/b] (windows Address Book) and not *.wab ?;)

RE: Saving a private address book.

Tippon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:32:11 GMT

Glad it worked :)

RE: Saving a private address book.

Fixtheleek? — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:45 GMT

Thank you Tippon, I did the search but found nothing.
Good news is they think they have found the XP disc, so I should be able to do a Repair.

Edit to add I am a thickie.:doze:
Refined the search and found everything, moved all to a safe place.
Full credit will be given when they ask how it was done.:D
Certainly one to remember, thank you again.

RE: Saving a private address book.

Tippon — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:19:54 GMT

You could try a search for *.wab and see if it finds it, but I'm not sure what the default location is :)

Saving a private address book.

Fixtheleek? — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:25:23 GMT

Is there a way of retrieving an Outlook Express address book from a HDD with a Windows install that is damaged?
I will connect as a slave to try and save some documents, which I have done before but I am not sure on the address book.
Thank you for any help.:)