address book

[Confused]

I had my computer backed up at Best Buy and they did a
clean backup on 3 CD's. Now I have none of my old
address's. How can I retreive them. They backed it up
on Roxio Retreive and I have been unable to access my
address book. I have even taken it back Best Buy and
they never now what they are doing/ Please Help! These
are address's I can not replace.

Thanks!

[Sharon F]

Confused wrote:
> I had my computer backed up at Best Buy and they did a
> clean backup on 3 CD's. Now I have none of my old
> address's. How can I retreive them. They backed it up
> on Roxio Retreive and I have been unable to access my
> address book. I have even taken it back Best Buy and
> they never now what they are doing/ Please Help! These
> are address's I can not replace.
>
> Thanks!

I'm not familiar with Roxio Retrieve. If it creates copies of files, you
just need to copy the files back to the hard drive. See taurian's response
about the *.wab file. TIP: After copying the WAB files to the hard drive,
right click the file and choose properties. Remove the check from the Read
Only box.

If Roxio Retrieve creates a backup file that can be unpacked only by the
Roxio Retrieve program, then you will need that software to access your
files. If the program is not one that can run in Windows XP, have Best Buy
unpack the files for you. They can then reburn them as straight file copies
instead of in a special format.


--
Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User

[Confused]

Was does unpack mean?
>-----Original Message-----
>Confused wrote:
>> I had my computer backed up at Best Buy and they did a
>> clean backup on 3 CD's. Now I have none of my old
>> address's. How can I retreive them. They backed it up
>> on Roxio Retreive and I have been unable to access my
>> address book. I have even taken it back Best Buy and
>> they never now what they are doing/ Please Help!
These
>> are address's I can not replace.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>I'm not familiar with Roxio Retrieve. If it creates
copies of files, you
>just need to copy the files back to the hard drive. See
taurian's response
>about the *.wab file. TIP: After copying the WAB files
to the hard drive,
>right click the file and choose properties. Remove the
check from the Read
>Only box.
>
>If Roxio Retrieve creates a backup file that can be
unpacked only by the
>Roxio Retrieve program, then you will need that software
to access your
>files. If the program is not one that can run in Windows
XP, have Best Buy
>unpack the files for you. They can then reburn them as
straight file copies
>instead of in a special format.
>
>
>--
>Sharon F
>Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User
>
>.
>

[Sharon F]

Some backup programs "pack" the many files you've selected into one big
giant file. The individual files still exist but need to be "unpacked" or
"extracted" to their original form before they can be used again. The
software used to create the one big file usually includes the tools needed
to retrieve the files.


--
Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User


Confused wrote:
> Was does unpack mean?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Confused wrote:
>>> I had my computer backed up at Best Buy and they did a
>>> clean backup on 3 CD's. Now I have none of my old
>>> address's. How can I retreive them. They backed it up
>>> on Roxio Retreive and I have been unable to access my
>>> address book. I have even taken it back Best Buy and
>>> they never now what they are doing/ Please Help! These
>>> are address's I can not replace.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> I'm not familiar with Roxio Retrieve. If it creates copies of files, you
>> just need to copy the files back to the hard drive. See taurian's
response
>> about the *.wab file. TIP: After copying the WAB files to the hard drive,
>> right click the file and choose properties. Remove the check from the
Read
>> Only box.
>>
>> If Roxio Retrieve creates a backup file that can be unpacked only by the
>> Roxio Retrieve program, then you will need that software to access your
>> files. If the program is not one that can run in Windows XP, have Best
Buy
>> unpack the files for you. They can then reburn them as straight file
copies
>> instead of in a special format.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sharon F
>> Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User
>>
>> .