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Thought you guys would appreciate this one in case you ever run across the same issue in the future.
From my blog:
Computer dead? Don’t have a good backup of your Business Contact Manager data?
This is a serious problem. It’s not an easy thing to find a solution to, either; those that exist only seem to work for some people, and only under particular circumstances, too. So in this post, I’ve set out to provide a solution that should work for everyone–hopefully.
Just one preliminary note: this only pertains to the 2007 version of Outlook. While it may work in other versions, I haven’t tested it there.
Okay. So you’ve got a dead computer (maybe yours, maybe your client’s), and you have the files recovered from the drive–perhaps from a backup. But unfortunately, as simple as it ought to be, recovering a Business Contact Manager database is far from it. You can’t simply retrieve the files and then import them somehow. In fact, from my recent experience, you can’t even make it work unless you follow a very specific order of operations.
(too long/too complex to copy/paste the whole thing, read the rest here)
Hope this helps someone!
From my blog:
Computer dead? Don’t have a good backup of your Business Contact Manager data?
This is a serious problem. It’s not an easy thing to find a solution to, either; those that exist only seem to work for some people, and only under particular circumstances, too. So in this post, I’ve set out to provide a solution that should work for everyone–hopefully.
Just one preliminary note: this only pertains to the 2007 version of Outlook. While it may work in other versions, I haven’t tested it there.
Okay. So you’ve got a dead computer (maybe yours, maybe your client’s), and you have the files recovered from the drive–perhaps from a backup. But unfortunately, as simple as it ought to be, recovering a Business Contact Manager database is far from it. You can’t simply retrieve the files and then import them somehow. In fact, from my recent experience, you can’t even make it work unless you follow a very specific order of operations.
(too long/too complex to copy/paste the whole thing, read the rest here)
Hope this helps someone!
