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[DEB]

I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

 

[PA Bear]

Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
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[DEB]

Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

.

 

[PA Bear]

Is your Windows Logon (aka Profile) also misspelled?
--
~PA Bear

Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

.

 

[DEB]

NO. Whoever set up my main contact address list and
named the folder misspelled my name. They named
it "Debs's Contacts". The "Shared Contact" folder was
already there. I don't kbow where to locate these main
folders. All the subfolders I added later in the address
book are correct.
-- Where do I go to change the name of the "main
identity's contacts" folder??--

-----Original Message-----
Is your Windows Logon (aka Profile) also misspelled?
--
~PA Bear

Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

DEB wrote:
I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

.

.

 

[PA Bear]

First let's backup a tad and I'll ask you to bone up on how OE stores your
data in Identities:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm#storemain. The identity used
by default (i.e., if you don't create one) is called/named Main Identity.

Go to OE Tools>Options>Maintenance and press the Store Folder button.
What's the name of your identity? (e.g., mine would be Robear, as in
C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Robear)

No one set up your contacts list or even your Address Book, for that matter.
OE creates and names it automatically for each identity:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm.

Now, moving on: In WindowsXP, the OE user files, including *.wab and *.dbx
files, are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows
Explorer, you must enable 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' under Start |
Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Do so now.

Then, in Windows Explorer, search for both "Debs*.wa~" and "Debs*.*" (w/out
the quotes). What do you find?

Also, is MS Office or MS Outlook also installed?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

NO. Whoever set up my main contact address list and
named the folder misspelled my name. They named
it "Debs's Contacts". The "Shared Contact" folder was
already there. I don't kbow where to locate these main
folders. All the subfolders I added later in the address
book are correct.
-- Where do I go to change the name of the "main
identity's contacts" folder??--

-----Original Message-----
Is your Windows Logon (aka Profile) also misspelled?
--
~PA Bear

Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
DEB wrote:
I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

 

[DEB]

First, before I tell you how I fixed the misspelling
myself, let me just respond to your other email dated
3/23/04. Let me just say, I am patient. It's very
frustrating to contact, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and
Windows XP "Professionals" only to hear they need to
charge us to tell us about their own products. Then when
I use the newsgroups I sometimes get bad information. One
volunteer told me just to "delete old file and create new
one". Well, wouldn't that take a lot of unnecessary work
when there should be an easier way to add or change a
file that someone had already named!!!!! Plus someone
DID add/change the name of the main folder. To quote
you "No one set up your contacts list" well, to correct
you, yes a friend had to because how else would the
folder be created, be misspelled and have all my email
addresses in the book??? I looked in the "owner.wab
properties" and it reads the "address book was created
12/04/02 9:40 pm." That's the day I brought the new
computer home and a friend created my address book and
named it.

So the solution I found was in:
OE/file/identities/manage identities/I then
highlighted "Deb"/properties/I retyped "Deb"/close.
I then looked at the address book and the folder that
was "Deb's's Contacts" now correctly reads "Deb's
Contacts". I'm glad I was able to figure out this small
but annoying problem.
Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
First let's backup a tad and I'll ask you to bone up on how OE stores your
data in Identities:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm#storemain. The identity used
by default (i.e., if you don't create one) is called/named Main Identity.

Go to OE Tools>Options>Maintenance and press the Store Folder button.
What's the name of your identity? (e.g., mine would be Robear, as in
C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Robear)

No one set up your contacts list or even your Address Book, for that matter.
OE creates and names it automatically for each identity:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm.

Now, moving on: In WindowsXP, the OE user files, including *.wab and *.dbx
files, are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in Windows
Explorer, you must enable 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' under Start |
Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Do so now.

Then, in Windows Explorer, search for both "Debs*.wa~" and "Debs*.*" (w/out
the quotes). What do you find?

Also, is MS Office or MS Outlook also installed?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

NO. Whoever set up my main contact address list and
named the folder misspelled my name. They named
it "Debs's Contacts". The "Shared Contact" folder was
already there. I don't kbow where to locate these main
folders. All the subfolders I added later in the address
book are correct.
-- Where do I go to change the name of the "main
identity's contacts" folder??--

-----Original Message-----
Is your Windows Logon (aka Profile) also misspelled?
--
~PA Bear

DEB wrote:
Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
DEB wrote:
I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

.

 

[PA Bear]

Thanks for posting back and I'm happy everything's now well.
--
~PA Bear

First, before I tell you how I fixed the misspelling
myself, let me just respond to your other email dated
3/23/04. Let me just say, I am patient. It's very
frustrating to contact, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and
Windows XP "Professionals" only to hear they need to
charge us to tell us about their own products. Then when
I use the newsgroups I sometimes get bad information. One
volunteer told me just to "delete old file and create new
one". Well, wouldn't that take a lot of unnecessary work
when there should be an easier way to add or change a
file that someone had already named!!!!! Plus someone
DID add/change the name of the main folder. To quote
you "No one set up your contacts list" well, to correct
you, yes a friend had to because how else would the
folder be created, be misspelled and have all my email
addresses in the book??? I looked in the "owner.wab
properties" and it reads the "address book was created
12/04/02 9:40 pm." That's the day I brought the new
computer home and a friend created my address book and
named it.

So the solution I found was in:
OE/file/identities/manage identities/I then
highlighted "Deb"/properties/I retyped "Deb"/close.
I then looked at the address book and the folder that
was "Deb's's Contacts" now correctly reads "Deb's
Contacts". I'm glad I was able to figure out this small
but annoying problem.
Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
First let's backup a tad and I'll ask you to bone up on how OE stores
your data in Identities:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm#storemain. The identity used
by default (i.e., if you don't create one) is called/named Main Identity.

Go to OE Tools>Options>Maintenance and press the Store Folder button.
What's the name of your identity? (e.g., mine would be Robear, as in
C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\Robear)

No one set up your contacts list or even your Address Book, for that
matter. OE creates and names it automatically for each identity:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm.

Now, moving on: In WindowsXP, the OE user files, including *.wab and
*.dbx files, are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in
Windows Explorer, you must enable 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' under
Start | Control Panel | Folder Options | View. Do so now.

Then, in Windows Explorer, search for both "Debs*.wa~" and "Debs*.*"
(w/out the quotes). What do you find?

Also, is MS Office or MS Outlook also installed?
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.mvps.org/

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

NO. Whoever set up my main contact address list and
named the folder misspelled my name. They named
it "Debs's Contacts". The "Shared Contact" folder was
already there. I don't kbow where to locate these main
folders. All the subfolders I added later in the address
book are correct.
-- Where do I go to change the name of the "main
identity's contacts" folder??--

-----Original Message-----
Is your Windows Logon (aka Profile) also misspelled?
--
~PA Bear

DEB wrote:
Yes. The name already on it is not spelled correctly so
I want to correct it. Thanks

-----Original Message-----
Are you referring to changing "Main Identity's Contacts" to "[another
name]'s Contacts"?
--
DEB wrote:
I'm trying to rename my main contact folder in my address
book in Outlook Express. (Not the subfolders I added
later/under the main contact.) How do I rename the main
folder? Thanks

.