My contacts have been completely removed from both accounts which is important as one account is my business account. A bulk of sent items are missing in one account which less important, being my personal account. I do have backup zip file dated 13th Jan 21. How do I restore these as well as keeping everything from 13th to today?
Is it possible to restore the contacts only, from a DAT file?
I have loads of folders and files in Users/myname/AppData/Roaming/eM Client
Please advise
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As a Pro License user, it might be better to open a support ticket directly with eM Client. They will be able to help you further by email, or even with a remote TeamViewer connection to your computer to help recover any lost data.
But if you want to recover the contacts from the backup here is an option:
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Using your preferred file manager, make a copy of your backup directory. This is just so you don’t lose anything by inadvertently overwriting your current backups.
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In eM Client, make a backup using Menu > Backup. You will restore this backup later.
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Disconnect your computer from the Internet. This is important because if the contacts are synced with a server, as soon as you restore your previous backup, they will be deleted from eM Client again.
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Go to Menu > File > Restore and select the backup you made on 13 January. If it is not in the list, you can browse to the directory copy you made in step 1.
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Confirm the missing contacts are there.
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Go to Menu > File > Export > Export Contacts to vcf files. You can select multiple folders, so do both accounts at the same time.
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Once the export is complete, go to Menu > File > Restore and restore the backup you made in step 1.
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Reconnect to the Internet.
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Go to Menu > File > Import > Contacts as vCard. Select the vcf files you exported in step 6.
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Done.