My Outlook Express XP pro address book is composed of several folders, but
when I imort, or copy it to my XP home notebook it dumps everyone into the
main contacts. s there a way of copying the addrees book with folders
preserved?

"drpeter11" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:095A57A9-EBF5-4664-A454-(E-Mail Removed)...
> My Outlook Express XP pro address book is composed of several folders, but
> when I imort, or copy it to my XP home notebook it dumps everyone into the
> main contacts. s there a way of copying the addrees book with folders
> preserved?




Outlook Express General newsgroup:

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xpress.general

Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express

Create a "standalone" WAB file:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe

Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB file
and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the Enter key to
OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that wab file to a
floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders and groups neither
import, nor export.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

What Bruce said.

Folders will neither export nor import.


drpeter11 wrote:
> My Outlook Express XP pro address book is composed of several folders, but
> when I imort, or copy it to my XP home notebook it dumps everyone into the
> main contacts. s there a way of copying the addrees book with folders
> preserved?

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

>
> "drpeter11" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:095A57A9-EBF5-4664-A454-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My Outlook Express XP pro address book is composed of several folders, but
> > when I imort, or copy it to my XP home notebook it dumps everyone into the
> > main contacts. s there a way of copying the addrees book with folders
> > preserved?
>
>
>
>
> Outlook Express General newsgroup:
>
> In your newsreader:
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
>
> On the Web:
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xpress.general
>
> Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
>
> Create a "standalone" WAB file:
> http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe
>
> Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
> member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
> Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB file
> and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the Enter key to
> OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that wab file to a
> floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders and groups neither
> import, nor export.
> --
>
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP [Mail]
> Imperial Beach, CA
>
> Using your advice, I used a slight variation. I found that double clicking on any copy (such as on a memory stick) of the personal.wab file shows it to be a true copy of the original – with sub-folders shown – the dumping only happens when the file is imported. Therefore, after opening the new address book in OE, I deleted all entries, made the required sub-folders and then bulk-copied from the personal.wab to each of the folders and sub-folders exactly as you suggest.
Many thanks for your help!