Generating new address book

I have a computer whose old profile folder got deleted before the upgrade to TB 2.0 and what I want to do is generate a new address book from all of the email currently in the inbox. Is there a way I can highlight a pile of emails in the list and then click somewhere to add them all to the address book?? Good lord I hope I won't have to do this manually!

TIA

 

WindsorFox,

Don't we all just wish that were possible, but it isn't.

Give me some details on the deleted Profile. Did you delete the Profile from the HDD, or did you delete the Profile using Profile Manager? If it is the latter, then the Profile is probably retrievable. How it was deleted, and from which browser is a need to know, also what OS you're using would also be helpful.

Thanks!

 

Nope it's gone deleted from the hard dive, this install doesn't use profile manager. It's only a 10GB drive and it was all kludged up with 5GB of email. Yeah, 5 GB. It had a corruption of some sort so I isolated the profile, uninstalled and removed all traces of TB, reinstalled 2.0 fresh then slid the old inbox back so all the existing emails were there. After I finished I deleted everything that was left from the old installation. This was 5 days ago and I just now relized that I didn't put the address book info back when I did the inbox. So basically what I have to do is make a new address book from the emails that are currently in the inbox. I was just hoping I didn't have to do it manually, one by one.

 

That is really a bummer, and it is a tedious chore to rebuild a lost Address Book.

Just for future reference, any time you add to or edit your Address Book, make a backup copy of your entire Profiles folder. This will include the Address Book, Passwords, Dictionary, etc. Do this at least once or twice a week.

 

Concure with Ramona - backup- backup - backup.....

Even if yo could come up with some sort of script to parse the existing emails, it would still only give the email address that shows in the header. No First name. Last name or other data.

Just my HO.

regards:captjlddavis

 

It wouldn't have mattered really, I did sort of make a back up in that I moved the folder to the desktop before I reinstalled. I just neglected to swap it all that I should have before i deleted it. Normally I wouldn't have deleted the old file, but this machine is so low on drive space I had to.

Thanks for all your help Ramona, now and always....

 

My Pleasure!