Forums mIRC Help how keep backup of address book??

hello there!!! I have lot of nicks @ my address book ... mainly @ the op and voice area... (maybe 200 names) and now i want to make a format to my pc and i dont want to lose all these names and pass them in from the begining is there any way to do that? im trying to do a test by keep back up of control.ini but if i paste it again @ the mirc program files folder and restart mirc ... it dont load the names

Seems that i find a serius bug ... or noone want to help ...

Backup the following files (in your mirc directory):

1) control.ini - the file with the Auto-op, Autovoice, protect and ignore lists
2) mirc.ini - the file with your notify list (and tons of other options)
3) addrbk.ini - file with the Users tab list info


When you reinstal mirc, copy this file to your mirc directory while mirc is NOT running in order to overwrite the file with your OLD settings. This is the same for any of the above mentioned files. I know this is more than you asked for, but I hope it helps.


As a side note, it's been suggested before that mirc use:

1) channels.ini (for thw ALT + J channel list)
2) notify.ini (for the notify list)

in addition to the existing ini files. Personally, I like the idea of that, but they've been suggested before. Just keeping you aware of what has been suggested

Thanks very much landonsandor! The bad thing is that i delete everything except control.ini

But is not enought so i will add all the names manually again :-/
Thanks for info! I will do it that way the next time!!!

ok, well, if you kept JUST that file do this:

1) Reinstal mirc
2) keep it CLOSED
3) copy the control.ini to the main mirc directory overwriting the existing default file
4) Open mirc and check the address book

This is the only way (at the moment) to import the address book

Thanks again my friend!!! works fine now!!!

glad it helped I wish there was a simpler way to import singular files and arguments could be made both ways. This truely is the simplest way for now