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Title: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: AngelaCanada on September 30, 2007, 10:26:57 PM

Could installing avast free version yesterday have anything to do with my address book reverting to what it was 2 years ago? Confused in Canada!!! ???

Title: Re: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: YoKenny on September 30, 2007, 10:39:55 PM

What Identity are you using in OE?

Each Identity can have its own Address Book.

Title: Re: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: AngelaCanada on September 30, 2007, 10:44:23 PM

Main Identity - I was also getting a low disc space message - so I deleted a few programs and let windows compress files

Title: Re: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: YoKenny on September 30, 2007, 11:16:41 PM

Its not good to let Windows get low on hard drive space as all kinds of funny things happen to it.

Title: Re: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: DavidR on October 01, 2007, 12:19:49 AM

Quote from: AngelaCanada on September 30, 2007, 10:26:57 PM

Could installing avast free version yesterday have anything to do with my address book reverting to what it was 2 years ago? Confused in Canada!!! ???

Short answer no.

avast might scan your address book but all it would do is alert you to an infection if possible, and you would know about that with the audible and visual alert. If it were to do anything, deletion (which you would have to authorise) is more likely than roll-back, a function avast doesn't have.

Title: Re: Address booking mysteriously changing
Post by: Lisandro on October 01, 2007, 12:25:36 AM

Quote from: YoKenny on September 30, 2007, 10:39:55 PM

Each Identity can have its own Address Book.

Hmmm... Mine are all inside of the same .wab file, divided (as folder) into the identities, but in the same file for sure.
avast shouldn't mess anything in the address book.
Can you search your computer for *.wab and *.wab~ files?