Importing Contacts

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Thank you for taking a moment to assist me.
I am working with someone who has decided to begin using her laptop as her
primary machine. We have installed Office 2003 T&S Edition. She is using
Outlook 2003 from this.
Her old machine was WinME with Office (version unknown). There she used
Outlook as well.
She & I understand (kinda) that in order to use the Autofill feature, the
addesses/names must be in some sort of cache created by sending an Email to
someone at some time.
I copied & pasted her Contacts list to the new Outlook after Opening some
saved PSTs from the old machine. (as per instructions from this newsgroup)
She was able to Autofill some, but many of her business contacts were no
longer coming up nor were they in her Contact list.
So I went to her old machine and Copied every file in her Application
Data>Microsoft>Outlook and pasted them into her new XP/Outlook 2003 folder.
I made copies of some of the 2003 files before I overwrote them.
Then MANY more of her addresses/names autofilled, but still many did not.
Is there a better or more accurate method for copying this cache from the ME
machine to the XP? And, if not ....
Is there a method by which I can import names and addresses if I can figure
out some way of exporting them from the ME machine into a delimited or text
format? She uses an ACT database that I think I can use to export many of
her business contacts into a report of some sort .. I am pretty sure I can
get it to a delimited or text format. If I can Import this into Outlook
2003, then at least the names will be in her Contacts then she can just send
a mass "test" Email that should get them all into her Autofill cache.
Thank you so very much for any time you take in answering this post and any
potential follow up I might have. Your help is very appreciated.
Regards,
Don Winfield
Tucson, AZ

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

I'm not following your question. You claimed "I understand (kinda) that in
order to use the Autofill feature, the addesses/names must be in some sort
of cache created by sending an Email to someone at some time."

Therefore, successfully transferring Contacts will do nothing to populate
that cache. Opening the former PST file and copying the Contacts into the
new PST file will transfer the Contacts. That is all you can or should do.
The cache will not be populated until messages are sent to those Contacts.

Copying files over themselves or importing PST files is always a bad idea.
It will only lose data or corrupt your profile.