Restoring bcm

[Papercrusher]

I had a motherboard failure and needed to reinstall Windows on another
drive. How can I retreive the bcm data off the old hard drive? Where
are the old files located.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Sun Embraser]

I had a motherboard failure and needed to reinstall Windows on another
drive. How can I retreive the bcm data off the old hard drive? Where
are the old files located.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Papercrusher,
If your previous Windows OS is XP, then the database should be stored
under:
"C:\Documents and Settings\[your_user_name]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"

On Vista and Windows 7, it is under:
"C:\Users\[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact
Manager"

Look for database files with file extension ".mdf" and ".ldf". Place
them in your new drive under similar directory and ask BCM to connect
to local database to recover them.
FYI, it is a good habit to have to regularly back up your database or
export your data...

John

 

[Papercrusher]

I had a motherboard failure and needed to reinstall Windows on another
drive. How can I retreive the bcm data off the old hard drive? Where
are the old files located.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Papercrusher,
If your previous Windows OS is XP, then the database should be stored
under:
"C:\Documents and Settings\[your_user_name]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"

On Vista and Windows 7, it is under:
"C:\Users\[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact
Manager"

Look for database files with file extension ".mdf" and ".ldf".  Place
them in your new drive under similar directory and ask BCM to connect
to local database to recover them.
FYI, it is a good habit to have to regularly back up your database or
export your data...

John

John:

I have the MSSmallBusiness.mdf and MSSmallBusiness.ldf files from the
old hard disk and tried several methods to recover them and was not
successful.

I tried to just replace them on the new drive and also renaming them
in the same directory as the orignal and could not connect. I am using
Outlook 2007 on a Windows 7 computer.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Papercrusher]

Hi Papercrusher,
If your previous Windows OS is XP, then the database should be stored
under:
"C:\Documents and Settings\[your_user_name]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"

On Vista and Windows 7, it is under:
"C:\Users\[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact
Manager"

Look for database files with file extension ".mdf" and ".ldf".  Place
them in your new drive under similar directory and ask BCM to connect
to local database to recover them.
FYI, it is a good habit to have to regularly back up your database or
export your data...

John

John:

I have the MSSmallBusiness.mdf and MSSmallBusiness.ldf files from the
old hard disk and tried several methods to recover them and was not
successful.

I tried to just replace them on the new drive and also renaming them
in the same directory as the orignal and could not connect. I am using
Outlook 2007 on a Windows 7 computer.

Any ideas?

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I found a solution to restoring BCM data from the .mdf and .ldf files.
These can be from another hard drive or backups. This is what I did to
get them back:

1. Uninstalled Business Contact Manager and SQL Server 2005
completely.
2. Copied the MSSmallBusiness.mdf and MSSmallBusiness.ldf files to
the orignal directory - On Vista and Windows 7, it is under: "C:\Users\
[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"
3. Started Outlook and followed the setup for BCM. Chose to 'create a
new datafile or use existing datafile' option.

It worked like a charm - all of my BCM contacts were restored!

Hope this helps for others having the same issue.

 

[Sun Embraser]

I had a motherboard failure and needed to reinstall Windows on another
drive. How can I retreive the bcm data off the old hard drive? Where
are the old files located.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Papercrusher,
If your previous Windows OS is XP, then the database should be stored
under:
"C:\Documents and Settings\[your_user_name]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"
On Vista and Windows 7, it is under:
"C:\Users\[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact
Manager"
Look for database files with file extension ".mdf" and ".ldf".  Place
them in your new drive under similar directory and ask BCM to connect
to local database to recover them.
FYI, it is a good habit to have to regularly back up your database or
export your data...
John

John:

I have the MSSmallBusiness.mdf and MSSmallBusiness.ldf files from the
old hard disk and tried several methods to recover them and was not
successful.

I tried to just replace them on the new drive and also renaming them
in the same directory as the orignal and could not connect. I am using
Outlook 2007 on a Windows 7 computer.

Any ideas?

Thanks- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I found a solution to restoring BCM data from the .mdf and .ldf files.
These can be from another hard drive or backups. This is what I did to
get them back:

1.  Uninstalled Business Contact Manager and SQL Server 2005
completely.
2.  Copied the MSSmallBusiness.mdf and MSSmallBusiness.ldf files to
the orignal directory - On Vista and Windows 7, it is under: "C:\Users\
[your_user_name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Business Contact Manager"
3.  Started Outlook and followed the setup for BCM. Chose to 'create a
new datafile or use existing datafile' option.

It worked like a charm - all of my BCM contacts were restored!

Hope this helps for others having the same issue.- Hide quoted text -

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Sure, that would work...
On Windows 7, I should have suggested that you run your Outlook with
administrator's privilege, and then ask BCM to connect to the database
again... This is the way Windows Vista / 7 User Access Control setting
works with SQL Server, and if you had launch Outlook with
administrative privilege, you should have been fine. Sorry I didn't
see your previous message or I would have suggest you try this.
John