Address Book?

[Tal]

I have a friend who uses outlook. She's been using a laptop but just bought
a desktop computer and wants to transfer all her address book entries (not
contacts) but the address book doesn't seem to be part of the PST file and
it's obviously not named with a *.wab extension like the outlook express one
is......... anyone got any ideas how i can find this rotten file and make a
backup (aka transfer) copy?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There is no separate address book in Outlook.
Contact data is stored in the Contacts Folder.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a friend who uses outlook. She's been using a laptop but just
bought a desktop computer and wants to transfer all her address book
entries (not contacts) but the address book doesn't seem to be part
of the PST file

The Contacts folder (for Outlook 2000-2003, but you must not have thought
the version important enough to include) IS the address book. For Outlook
97, 98, there was a "Personal Address Book" congtained in a file whose type
was ".pab".

She should just try copying the PST from the old computer to the new and
then opening that file with Outlook. Chances are she'll have all her
information.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Tal]

no, it's not, the entries are NOT the same for both!

and yes, she already did try copying the PST file to the new computer and
while the contacts contacts are there the address book is empty

winxp version

 

[be]

I did same thing. I copied pst over. and addressbook when I open within a
message is empty.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

They are, in fact, one in the same when you are configured correctly.
Post your Outlook version if you can't figure out how to do this.

 

[Tal]

they can't be the same when they dont' hold the same entries.......same
means same, and they're not!

They are, in fact, one in the same when you are configured correctly.
Post your Outlook version if you can't figure out how to do this.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

no, it's not, the entries are NOT the same for both!

and yes, she already did try copying the PST file to the new computer and
while the contacts contacts are there the address book is empty

winxp version

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook Address Book can only show entries that are contained in a
Contacts Folder. It contains no data of its own. I cannot examine your setup
to see how you are misconfigured. You are either not using the Outlook
Address Book or you have some other Contacts Folder in your profile that the
OAB is displaying.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

they can't be the same when they dont' hold the same entries.......same
means same, and they're not!

They are, in fact, one in the same when you are configured correctly.
Post your Outlook version if you can't figure out how to do this.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

no, it's not, the entries are NOT the same for both!

and yes, she already did try copying the PST file to the new computer and
while the contacts contacts are there the address book is empty

winxp version

The Contacts folder (for Outlook 2000-2003, but you must not have thought
the version important enough to include) IS the address book. For Outlook
97, 98, there was a "Personal Address Book" congtained in a file whose
type
was ".pab".

She should just try copying the PST from the old computer to the new and
then opening that file with Outlook. Chances are she'll have all her
information.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Brian Tillman]

they can't be the same when they dont' hold the same
entries.......same means same, and they're not!

The Contacts folder is what Outlook uses for addresses. The Windows Address
Boook, which Outlook Express uses, is not the same and is not used by
Outlook. Perhaps that's where the confusion lies. You can export your WAB
to a comma-separated-value (CSV) file and then import that into Outlook's
Contacts folder.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.