Contacts (address book)

[Ron Radliff]

In XP, I have my address book broken down into sub-folders for family,
friends, work, etc.

I've imported all my contacts from my XP address book and separated the
contacts into the various folders just as in XP..
When I bring up the contacts through Windows Mail, everything looks proper.
When I try to forward a message, and click the "to" button, It gives me the
entire listing of my contacts folder without regard to the folders I've
created. I see no option so see the contacts in sub-folders.

Is this by design, or am I missing something?

 

[Jim Pickering]

I think it's by design. In Outlook Express, Folders and Groups were only
visible to the identity that created them. With Windows Mail in Vista,
Identities are not used and I've not been able to see any way to create a
Folder for a particular group of contacts. At this stage of the program, I
don't think it will be changed, but you might want to submit a bug about it
and see what comments you get from the Product Team.

 

[Ron Radliff]

OK, thanks for the info. I'll drop a bug report as you suggest. In the
meantime, the address book is basically useless for me. I have over 100
addresses there and frequently send emails to 20 or so people at a time.
I'll just use Thunderbird for the time being.

 

[Guest]

How did you import your address book? I've copied my "wab" file to an
external hard drive, but when I tryto import it via Windows Mail, it simply
doesn't recognise the file on my external hard drive?

Similar problem with importing messages from Outlook - used file transfer as
per XP Help, "dat" file created doesn't seem to be recognised when I try to
import.