Can I ask an Outlook Express Question?

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I have a few thousand email addresses on my old computer. I can't get them
into my new computer. My new computer doesn't have a serial port, and the
wizard appears to require one.

I tried putting the wab file onto a thumb drive and then putting the file
into outlook express... but that didn't make any difference in the addresses
that were available to me...

What can I do????

I have been working on this for a month and a half, and I'm getting desperate.
 
By.All.Means said:
I have a few thousand email addresses on my old computer. I can't get them
into my new computer. My new computer doesn't have a serial port, and the
wizard appears to require one.

I tried putting the wab file onto a thumb drive and then putting the file
into outlook express... but that didn't make any difference in the
addresses
that were available to me...

What can I do????

I have been working on this for a month and a half, and I'm getting
desperate.

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Learn some helpful signs --
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Are you using the Import item in the menu? This is how you would import (or
export) the .wab file. You can find details by using the Help applet in OE
itself.
 
I'm not sure...
In the film menu there's "Import Export" and when I click on that it brings
up the Wizard which as I say requires that I use a serial port on each
computer, and the new one doesnt' have one.

Or, it needs to know the kind of files... there's a selection of file types
to choose from, but none of them are familiar and when I open the wab files
for properties it doesn't give the file types offered.

I've tried the help thing, but I get a message saying something about how it
can't be accessed... I think that's because my new computer's had some
serious crashes and for some reason some stuff doesn't seem to be all there
anymore.

I think htat if I didn't have the brain damage it would be easier to
understand exactly what the situation is and what is needed.
 
By.All.Means said:
I have a few thousand email addresses on my old computer. I can't get them
into my new computer. My new computer doesn't have a serial port, and the
wizard appears to require one.

I tried putting the wab file onto a thumb drive and then putting the file
into outlook express... but that didn't make any difference in the
addresses
that were available to me...

What can I do????

I have been working on this for a month and a half, and I'm getting
desperate.
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Copy the old WAB file to the new machine using a LAN, if available, or via
invisible networking (e.g., floppy or CD-RW). Copy it anywhere for now
(your desktop is fine). Open your current address book, either via All
Programs | Accessories, or from within Outlook Express). In the Address
Book, select File | Import | Addres Book (WAB), and browse to your old
WAB file. Et voila! You can then delete your old WAB file.
 
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Copy the WAB file from the thumb drive to the HDD of the new machine >
Remove any Read Only attribute it may have > Open Address Book > File >
Import > Address Book > Point the wizard to the location of the WAB file.

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

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Hi Micky,
I tried to do that over and over again, in different ways, but I must have
always done some bit wrong. finally tonight a Toshiba tech helped me. It was
7pm and I'd been trying since 11 a.m. so he took pity on me, really it's
beyond the things they are supposed to help with, because I've called them
before.

when he had me do the things part of the things that came up were things I'd
seen before, but some were completely new. I think it';s because of my brain
damage that I just do a few things wrong, and don't realize it, so I don't
succeed.

Anyway, thank you very very much.
 
Yes, a lot of email addresses. I was so shocked that this brain damage I have
started with something as simple as low B12 that I wrote to Realtors all over
the country because I used to be a Realtor. Some yelled at me and called it
spam. But others were grateful.

There are a lot of addresses of people that I forget when I can't see their
address. with the kind of brain damage I have, "out of sight, out of mind,"
is utterly true.

Thanks. (I also can't drive yet because of having had tetanus... so going to
someone for help is a major task... and the last two weeks the people I hired
didn't come...)
 
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Tom [Pepper] Willett said:
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logan said:
a few thousand....you must be popular...and if it's a business...get a pro
to look at it....very simple, and your welcome...


I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
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You know, PA, I tried that. I did it over and over again... but it wouldn't
read the WAB file.

When the tech helped me there was a screen I'd never seen before when lots
of little boxes and words after them for fields, so I checked those, and then
it opened up one of those boxes that shows the progress... and it began
working and that was it. It was so easy.... but I don't really know what made
it work ... I'd been to the same document he wlaked me through, and I thought
I followed it... but I'd never gotten that box before.

I would have thought that between 11 this morning and 7 this evening, I
would have gotten it given the many many times I kept tryhing to do it...

but, no.

Thank you a lot. I really appreciate your writing. Who knows, maybe the
reason it worked with the tech was that all of you were wishing me well.

Once, a long time ago in a jewelry making class I could not get the silver
to melt so that I could cast something. I forget what I said, everyone was
gathered around watching, anyway, I said something that made them all laugh,
all at the same time, and that extra bit of air, the breeze from them
laughing literally made the difference, made the fire that much hotter and
the silver melted.

So.... my feeling is that you guys have helped. Thank you. :)
 
Hi Ron, yes, I was. But I was clearly not doing it right. For the longest
time each time I did it the wizard automatically came up. and it didn't seem
to work.

But tonight when that tech helped... you know, I can't remember if he had me
use the wizard... he might have. There were a few times I had to ask him what
I was looking for, and where was I supposed to be looking. The more nervous I
become the less well I function... which is why this has taken soooo long.

I am very grateful to you for taking the time to write. As I said in the
answer just before this.... I think all of you made the final success
possible. :)

Thank you.
 
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