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Mike - 12 Mar 2007 22:16 GMT

My hard drive crashed, luckily the local computer guy was able to recover the
data from it after the crash. I am in the process of importing the recovered
data into applications on the new hard drive, but my BCM business contacts
folder in Outlook is empty. I imported the .pst file and everything showed
up in Outlook except the BCM data, I assume this means that BCM uses a
seperate database? I have tried to find that database in the recovered data
from the old hard drive, but I'm not having any luck. What should the BCM
database be called and where should I look for it?

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Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT] - 12 Mar 2007 22:46 GMT

BCM uses SQL database. The files are stored in C:\Documents and
Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Businesss Contact
Manager folder with extension .mdf and .ldf.
You will need to copy these files to same folder on new harddrive and attach
them to SQL server. Please search on this NG on how to attach a database
files to SQL.

Once you have done that, go through normal BCM configuration and you should
be able to see BCM database.

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> My hard drive crashed, luckily the local computer guy was able to recover
> the
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> from the old hard drive, but I'm not having any luck. What should the BCM
> database be called and where should I look for it?

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Mike - 13 Mar 2007 21:20 GMT

I found the files and moved them to the right directory, but I am having
difficulties attaching them to the SQL Server. I have attempted to add it as
a database to Business Contact Manager but it does not show up in list of
available databases to connect to. Where can I get more information on this?

> BCM uses SQL database. The files are stored in C:\Documents and
> Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Businesss Contact
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> > from the old hard drive, but I'm not having any luck. What should the BCM
> > database be called and where should I look for it?

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Luther - 15 Mar 2007 07:13 GMT

> I found the files and moved them to the right directory, but I am having
> difficulties attaching them to the SQL Server. I have attempted to add it as
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http://beyng.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-attach-database-files-to-sql.html

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