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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / General Topics / March 2008Loading Address Book
I use two computers. Both XP Home, IE 7 and OE 6. Computer #1 has an updated Address Book and I want to update #2. I exported the WAB file from #1 to a thumbdrive. Put thumbdrive in computer #2. Opened OE and did FILE-IMPORT-ADDRESS BOOK from the thumbdrive. On the screen it said I had successfully imported the updated Address Book. Closed OE and re-opened OE. New Address Book did not appear. What am I missing? Thanks. Did you do the import from OE's File | Import, or the Address Book's File | Import? <Canned> Open the Address Book | File | Export | Address Book (wab) either to a CD, or another location on your HDD and burn from there. Copy the CD to a folder on the new machine. Right click on it | Properties and remove the Read Only attribute. Open the Address Book | File | Import | Address Book (wab) and point to where you saved it.  SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA >I use two computers. Both XP Home, IE 7 and OE 6. Computer #1 has an >updated Address Book and I want to update #2. I exported the WAB file from >#1 to a thumbdrive. Put thumbdrive in computer #2. Opened OE and did >FILE-IMPORT-ADDRESS BOOK from the thumbdrive. On the screen it said I had >successfully imported the updated Address Book. Closed OE and re-opened >OE. New Address Book did not appear. What am I missing? Thanks. I have attempted to download it from main OE menu and the Address Book menu. However, looking at the file on the thumbdrive I cannot find any data. That may explain everything. I will go back to the other computer and export the WAB file again. How did you export the WAB file? (NB: WAB.EXE is *not* your Address Book!) What is the name of the exported WAB file? Assuming you did the export correctly, did you try Copying the WAB file from the thumbdrive to the desktop of the target machine and remove any Read Only attribute the file may have before you attempted to import it? Are you importing via Address Book: File | Import or OE: File | Import? Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > I use two computers. Both XP Home, IE 7 and OE 6. Computer #1 has an > updated Address Book and I want to update #2. I exported the WAB file [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > OE. > New Address Book did not appear. What am I missing? Thanks. I understand now that the WAB file is not the correct address book file. I copied (not exported from OE) the file from the source computer c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\application data\microsoft\address book. On the thumbdrive it is listed as Keene Valley (name of admin) and says it is an address book. However, when I open that file it is blank. No addresses. There is also the file KeeneValley.wab~ it contains no data that is readable. From Outlook Express on the host computer I also exported a CSV file. On the thumbdrive this has all the addresses that I want, but only a list of them. I had them broken into several groups that I email. I'm just not sure how to get a file that has the groups listed. I feel close, but not there yet. Thanks for the help. [To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.] 1. Export the Address Book as a WAB file via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (WAB); or as a CSV file via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (other). 2. After copying the exported file to the desktop of the target machine and removing any Read Only attribute, import it via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (WAB) or Address Book (other), as pertinent. You'll find that Groups will neither export nor import. Some find the same to be true with Folders. (All about) Address Book (including Standalones) http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ > I understand now that the WAB file is not the correct address book file. > I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I'm just not sure how to get a file that has the groups listed. I feel > close, but not there yet. Thanks for the help. <paste> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: > How did you export the WAB file? (NB: WAB.EXE is *not* your Address > Book!) [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> OE. >> New Address Book did not appear. What am I missing? Thanks. Thanks for the link and info. I thought sure I had been able to move groups as well as addresses. Must have been in another universe. I'll read the item you suggested and play around some more... but not today. Thanks for the help. ADKR [To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.] 1. Export the Address Book as a WAB file via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (WAB); or as a CSV file via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (other). 2. After copying the exported file to the desktop of the target machine and removing any Read Only attribute, import it via Address Book: File | Export | Address Book (WAB) or Address Book (other), as pertinent. You'll find that Groups will neither export nor import. Some find the same to be true with Folders. (All about) Address Book (including Standalones) http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm Signature~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ ADKR wrote: > I understand now that the WAB file is not the correct address book file. I > copied (not exported from OE) the file from the source computer [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I'm just not sure how to get a file that has the groups listed. I feel > close, but not there yet. Thanks for the help. <paste> > How did you export the WAB file? (NB: WAB.EXE is *not* your Address > Book!) [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> OE. >> New Address Book did not appear. What am I missing? Thanks. I was able to get all the addresses, but not the groups. I re-created them. Thanks for your help and suggestions. |
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