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02-04-2010, 12:29 AM

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Re: Is it possible to view PIMBackup files (.pib) with a Text Editor?

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Originally Posted by studentjunk

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PIB files are just zip files. So copy the file to the desktop and rename it to *.zip. Extract the zip file, and you should be able to read the contacts. I don't backup any messages, so I don't know how to go about reading those, but I was able to read the contacts in excel. They were semicolon delimited.

Should just be able to get winrar to unarchive it without having to rename. I believe i have done this before with other file formats following the same process.

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