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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / OE 5.x / June 2004Import/export WAB files
I'm confused by file sizes of WAB files. First I delete every record from my address book. Then I import a WAB file that is 1.5 MB and has 2000 records. Now my address book has 2000 records. I then export every record in the address book to a second WAB file. That second file also has 2000 records, but it's 4.1 MB in size! It seems to me that the 2000 records (only name email address) should need only 100 KB or so. Does any one know what's happening. Is MS Office or MS Outlook also installed?  SignatureHTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org Protect Your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect > I'm confused by file sizes of WAB files. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Does any one know what's happening. Yes, MS Outlook AND Office (Small Business Edition) are also installed. In particular, it's called "Microsoft Office XP Small Business." All of the programs in the suite have "2002" after their name. > Is MS Office or MS Outlook also installed? > > I'm confused by file sizes of WAB files. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Does any one know what's happening. Do you have this Registry key?... HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \WAB \WAB4 If not, STOP; If so, is there a DWORD named UseOutlook and is its value set to 1 (one)? If not, STOP; If so, Address Book is configured to share contacts with Outlook, even if you don't use it (can happen with the install of Office). Change the value to 0 (zero), Address Book should be available to you and all should be well. (If that DWORD is not present, don't create it, and don't alter any other DWORD values.) Note that any changes (additions, deletions, edits) made while sharing was enabled will not be available (displayed) in Address Book when sharing is disabled. This may be bad news for you. cf. http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#share http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191946 Signature~PA Bear > Yes, MS Outlook AND Office (Small Business Edition) are also installed. In > particular, it's called "Microsoft Office XP Small Business." All of the [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >>> >>> Does any one know what's happening. > Do you have this Registry key?... > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > If not, STOP; There was no DWORD named UseOutlook. There were 3 DWORDs, but none implied Outlook. (FirstRun, etc.) It seems so strange. I import a 50 KB CSV file with 1400 Name and Email records into a totally empty WAB. The resulting WAB file is OVER 1 MB, or 20 times larger. I can import a WAB into a WAB and the resulting file is 93 MB - still with 1400 records. Thanks for trying PA Bear. >> Do you have this Registry key?... >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 93 > MB - still with 1400 records. Are you running a McAfee or Norton application in the background, Bob? Does the same thing happen if you import either the CSV or WAB file into a new (empty) Address Book (Start>Run> wab /NEW)? http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm SignatureHTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spyware.mspx > Are you running a McAfee or Norton application in the background, Bob? I am not running McAfee or Norton. I uninstalled Norton about 2 months ago. My ISP has a very good virus protection screening program for all email. I realize that I can still be struck by a virus, but the performance hit caused by Norton is not worth it, IMO. Norton hadn't caught even one virus in the last six months it was on my computer. I attribute that to the virus checking in my ISP. > Does the same thing happen if you import either the CSV or WAB file into a > new (empty) Address Book (Start>Run> wab /NEW)? > http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm What a GOOD site. Thank you. After Run Wab /Open I see three WAB files. I expected to see just these three. But when I Search on all *.wab files, it shows about 10 other wab files, located in "My Computer" with no size and no modified date. (I'm not talking about those in /recent) They have names of wab files that I used and then deleted. Is it possible that info from these old, deleted wab files, is somehow getting into my exported wab file? A long shot. When I start from a new WAB (run wab /open), import a CSV, and then export it, (like you suggest above), my csv is 50 KB, and the wab is 859 KB, but that's OK. It took about 1 second to import the file from a CSV file. Subsequent exports of the file, (sons) and also exports from the exported files (grandsons) still remain at 859 KB. All records seem to be under Contacts. Next I went to my "Bob.wab" (Main identity) and deleted all records. Now the file is only 2 KB. Next I imported the same CSV file. After 90 SECONDS ??? the new wab contained the correct information, and correct number of records, 1417. All records showed up under Shared Contacts. Why's that? When I tried to use search to find the size of the new Bob.WAB, only my test wab files, that were in the recycle bin, showed up. So I then REBOOTED and searched again. Now all the wab files show up, and my new Bob.WAB is 94.2 MEGA Bytes. When I export this huge Bob.wab to a New.wab, the resulting file is also 94.2 MB. With this large WAB, performance on OE has slowed down. I am having problems with Outlook. That's one reason I'm using OE. Is it possible that an Outlook problem is causing this OE problem? This problem all started when I was trying to decide which email program I wanted to use. I now use Eudora Pro, but I'm getting a new computer soon and want to move to Outlook or Outlook Express. All 3 programs are on my current computer. I'd also like to be able to delete all those WAB files that show up in the My Computer folder when I do a Search *.wab. Is it possible that deleting a wab file leaves some information on the computer? Thanks for you help. Bob Then I import Please include /all/ of the previous message in your replies, even if you're inserting answers inline. I'd imagine the install of Outlook has created this problem, Bob. Though you post to an OE5.5 newsgroup, I now see you're running OE6-SP1. Copy/paste the following line into an IE Addressbar, click on GO, then copy/paste the results into your reply: javascript:navigator.appMinorVersion Also state your Windows version, the version of Office/Outlook you'd installed and if you've uninstalled either Office or OL. Signature~PA Bear >> Are you running a McAfee or Norton application in the background, Bob? > [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > Bob > Then I import Here's what appeared: ;SP1;Q810847;Q813951;Q813489;Q330994;Q818529;Q822925;Q828750;Q824145;Q832894 ;Q837009;Q831167; I'm using XP Home Edition, version 2002, SP1 I believe at one point I tried to uninstall Outlook. Then I tried to reinstall it. I'm using Outlook 2002 (10.4608.4219) SP-2, from Office XP Small Business. Should I uninstall Office XP Small Business, then reinstall it from the CD...then reinstall SP-1 and SP-2? > Please include /all/ of the previous message in your replies, even if you're > inserting answers inline. [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > > Bob > > Then I import After doing a search for all *.wab files on my C: drive, it showed the 3 WAB files that I expected PLUS 28 WAB files in the "My Computer Folder". For those 28 files there was no Size, Type, or Date Modified information....just Name and "In Folder." I recognized the names of these 28 WAB files as being files that I had previously deleted. So I re-deleted each one (right click...delete) directly from the Search output screen. The I did a search again, but this time those 28 files did not show up. Yeah. Then I went back to OE, deleted all records from the file, and re-imported the sample CSV file with 1400 records. Next I exported that WAB file to another WAB file. Voila, the new WAB file was only 3.2 MB....far less than 94.2 MB previously obtained with this action, although still quite a bit larger than I might have expected. (I believe I've seen other WAB files with 1400 records that were only 800 KB). This implies that something strange is going on when a WAB file is deleted. When I delete a wab file (the second time) from the Search screen, I'm asked: "Are you sure you want to delete History Item: WIWA%20address%20book%202 (WIWA%20address%20book%202.WAB)? The name of the file is/was "WAWA address book 2.wab" Hope this helps. My current problems are: this is still too large a file (3.3 MB)...something is being included in it "behind the scenes" I still have Outlook error messages. Something's wrong there. > Here's what appeared: ;SP1;Q810847;Q813951;Q813489;Q330994;Q818529;Q822925;Q828750;Q824145;Q832894 > ;Q837009;Q831167; > [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > > > Bob > > > Then I import Try repairing OE: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378 Signature~PA Bear > After doing a search for all *.wab files on my C: drive, it showed the 3 > WAB files that I expected PLUS 28 WAB files in the "My Computer Folder". [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >> Here's what appeared: ;SP1;Q810847;Q813951;Q813489;Q330994;Q818529;Q822925;Q828750;Q824145;Q832894 >> ;Q837009;Q831167; >> [quoted text clipped - 86 lines] >>>> Bob >>>> Then I import |
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