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Internet Explorer History Retrieval

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Bentendo - 29 Sep 2004 00:49 GMT
Hi guys,

Hopefully someone will be able to help me out.

I have a user who has recently recieved a new computer. As such, I backed up
his user profile so that he didn't loose his Favourite, My Documents etc.
However I have encountered a problem as he wants his old Internet History
back.

I have placed this into his new user profile directory on the new computer
whilst logged in as the local administrator. This successfully copied the
history to the default location in his profile, however when looking at the
history in IE, it does not display any of the previous results on his old
computer. I know for sure that I have copied the right profile.

I have opened up the dat files in the History directory using Notepad and
have found that there are URL entries which reflect the same sorts of ones
that the end user is reporting.

Does someone know how to reimport the IE history into a new user profile?

Thankyou!
PA Bear - 29 Sep 2004 01:54 GMT
History files are just temp cache files and should never be saved or used
from
one PC to the other.

There is no way to import or export History.
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Jon Kennedy - 29 Sep 2004 22:27 GMT
I agree with Robear, but if the user's IE History is really important to him
or her, then History Inspector might be a useful recovery tool:
http://www.wbaudisch.de/HistoryInspector.htm

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Charlotte, NC, USA
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Jon Kennedy - 30 Sep 2004 00:19 GMT
Oh, and there's this tool as well that might be useful - and it's free:

IEHistoryView
http://freehost14.websamba.com/nirsoft/utils/iehv.html

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>I agree with Robear, but if the user's IE History is really important to
>him or her, then History Inspector might be a useful recovery tool:
>http://www.wbaudisch.de/HistoryInspector.htm
 
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