Import .WAB into OE 6

[Guest]

I created a .wab address book file from my old OE and tried to IMPORT into
OE 6. Everthing looks OK, but when done no addresses have been imported!
Any thoughts?

 

[PA Bear]

Windows versions?

Was the old machine running IE/OE6?

How did you go about "creating" an Address Book and importing it?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

 

[Guest]

Old PC was running Win98 and OE 5 ... old machine gone ... when in OE5 it
gave me option of exporting address book as WAB which I chose. Now I'm
trying to import into WinXP and OE 6. I don't seem to be able to find a way.
Now I realize my folly. I should have used .csvor someting similar
Imsuppose. Any more thoughts on how I miught be able to import wab into OE
6? Thanks ...

 

[PA Bear]

Transfer a copy of the WAB file to the desktop of the WinXP machine >
Right-click on it and remove any Read Only attribute it may have > Open your
WinXP Address Book: File > Import > Address Book (wab) > point the import
wizard to the desktop > ...

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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OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OE General newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)