Address book transfer

[drpeter11]

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]

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/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.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.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

What Bruce said.

Folders will neither export nor import.

 

[drpeter11]

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/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...px?dg=microsoft.public.outlookexpress.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.
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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!