[brinybay]

I recently had to format my HD and reinstall windows. I moved the old wab file from the backup to the new directory and deleted the new wab file. But OE won't use my old wab file, it keeps creating a new wab file and uses that. I renamed the old wab file wabold.wab. When I double click it, it brings up my contacts organized in the groups as I had them and lists the directory and file name, Address Book - (C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\wabold.wab). When I double click on the other wab file, it says Address Book - Main Identity.

How do I get it to use the old wab file? Doesn't matter what I name the old one, it still creates a new one and uses that instead, which doesn't have my old contacts and groups. Exporting/importing doesn't work, it keeps importing the contacts from the new wab file, and it doesn't give me any selection for exporting other than a wab, no csv or other format.