Address Book from Outlook 2002 into Windows Mail

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My old pc is noy available. I converted my Address Book to a .WAB format and
took a copy of it which has been restore to the new pc with Vista Home
Premium.
However, whenever I try and import it or just look at it, I get the 'you are
about to import Windows Address Book contents' and then says it has done it
but I still see nothing either opening contacts with Mail or using Windows
Contacts - in fact, I just go round in circles.
Am I just doing this incorrectly or is there something wrong with the copy I
took. There seem to be 2 entries in the restored folder - one with my old
userid, an address book icon and a file type of WAB. The other has my old
userid.wab follwed by a squiggly line, an unspecified icon and a file type of
WAB followed by the same squiggly line. Both are 173KB - it was not a huge
address book but does this seem too small?.
Any assitance/guidance from those more knowledgable will be much appreciated.
 
Thrawgoon said:
My old pc is noy available. I converted my Address Book to a .WAB format
and
took a copy of it which has been restore to the new pc with Vista Home
Premium.
However, whenever I try and import it or just look at it, I get the 'you
are
about to import Windows Address Book contents' and then says it has done
it
but I still see nothing either opening contacts with Mail or using Windows
Contacts - in fact, I just go round in circles.
Am I just doing this incorrectly or is there something wrong with the copy
I
took. There seem to be 2 entries in the restored folder - one with my old
userid, an address book icon and a file type of WAB. The other has my old
userid.wab follwed by a squiggly line, an unspecified icon and a file type
of
WAB followed by the same squiggly line. Both are 173KB - it was not a huge
address book but does this seem too small?.
Any assitance/guidance from those more knowledgable will be much
appreciated.
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What version of Outlook are you trying to import it into?
 
I have installed the 60 day free Outlook 2007, which has allowed me to get
back my old messages but I also have Windows Mail and an MSN Hotmail. I dont
really care which one gets the address book as it seems once one does I can
export/import it around to whichever one I want to use eventually (well, it
wont be Outlook 2007 as I am not going to pay for it - it was just a way of
getting back the old messages which will get moved to Mail)
 
I can only guess that there was something wrong with the conversion to .WAB.
I was able to take my old Outlook Express .WAB file from an XP machine to a
Vista machine and it imported fine. You should be able to export contacts
in .CSV format from Outlook and Windows Contacts will import from that
format also.

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