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SOLUTION: Recover/import Windows Live Mail Contacts to new computer
So today I was tasked with recovering a
client’s contacts stored in a Windows Live Mail edb database for the
first time. At first, it seemed like a daunting task–primarily because I
could not get a (previously) popular solution involving the now-deprecated EseDbViewer
to work. That’s because, as I later discovered, the process must be
performed on the original PC in order for it to work; if you try it
using the recovered files on another machine, it simply fails.
Fortunately, as is usually the case, there
is another way around this problem, and it’s actually quite easy. The
goal is to get the contacts from the edb into a readable .csv (Comma
Separated Values) file for import into Windows Live Mail. And a company
known as Nirsoft (who makes a number of helpful tools, often of
forensic nature) has a program that works perfectly.
It’s called LiveContactsView,
and it’s designed for viewing Windows Live Messenger contacts.
However, Windows Live Mail uses the same format for storing its
contacts, so it works here, too.
Here’s the full process:
- Download LiveContactsView.
- Recover the original Windows Live Mail contacts database files from the failed PC/original drive:
- They’re located in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Live Contacts\{GUID}\DBStore, where %LOCALAPPDATA% is an environment variable equivalent to \Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\ on the drive, and {GUID} is a random string assigned to the original user’s profile.
- Using LiveContactsView, open the contacts.edb file from the DBStore folder.
- Select all fields within the list view.
- Export the items to a .csv file.
- Import the .csv file into the mail client of your choice.
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