HELP!

My Parsons (Broderbund) Address Book 5.0 will no longer boot, and the Diskette is corrupted beyond repair. We have over 300 addresses that we REALLY need to get access to!

Does anybody know where I can purchase a copy of the software? Or failing that, does anybody know of any software that will read/export Address Book 5.0 files?

Thanks!

Have you checked the company's support pages yet?

http://support.broderbund.com/faq_list.asp?id=1294818801

HeHe.... they were no help at all, they just gave me the old "sorry, we don't support it any more". Thats since Brouderbund bought out Parsons. I know that their tech support folks have a library copy around.... but I can't get any cooperation! Oh Well!

Can't even find it on Ebay!

Thanks

Ed

Run the good old scandisk on your floppy with the long option (not the standard one), and if your disk is not full you might just be able to save the info that was on it!

It's worth a try.

Thanks Eagle... the problem with the diskette, is that a dog tooth went completely through it! LOL

Of course, it wasn't funny at the time.... ! But that's why we are so desperate to find another copy, or something to read the files. The program is intact on a backup drive, but it will not work without the actual install program being run, which creates the DLL's, etc. And, of course, the install program is on the ventilated diskette!

Ed

There is still the option of employing a company that does data conversion. That way, you'd be at least able to extract the data and convert it into a more readable format, say for MS Outlook.