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Rick & Deb

I have had to reload a couple of times. I can save all my information except
address book in outlook express. I have copied the file wab.exe to another
drive but after reload address are not there. Any help on this matter is
greatly appreciated.
 
Rick said:
I have had to reload a couple of times. I can save all my information except
address book in outlook express. I have copied the file wab.exe to another
drive but after reload address are not there. Any help on this matter is
greatly appreciated.
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To save your addresses you need to export them. Open OE,click File then
click on export. You can export addresses and messages. The file you
copied is the file used to execute the address book program.

gls858
 
Instead of the wab.exe file you need to find a file like
"Rick.wab". You might want to take a look at the address book
section here:

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,68767,pg,2,00.asp

You should place this file in the C:\Documents and
Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book folder.

If you didn't back up any of your .wab files then you may be out
of luck.

Nepatsfan
 
Rick & Deb said:
I have had to reload a couple of times. I can save all my information
except address book in outlook express. I have copied the file
wab.exe to another drive but after reload address are not there. Any
help on this matter is greatly appreciated.
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You saved the Address Book executable, not the data file. See
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#movewab
Backup Windows Address Book Entries
http://home.earthlink.net/~kuaytim/exportwab.htm

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Here is something to ponder. I went to article list in above message. I did
a search, put in the string "*.wab" and the search came up empty. I searched
all drives. I exported file from outlook express. Did a search and it found
one, went to it. When I opened it, was empty. I checked my address book in
outlook and address are still there. ? Is there another extension that it
could be using? Any and all help greatly appreciated.
 
Rick said:
Here is something to ponder. I went to article list in above message. I did
a search, put in the string "*.wab" and the search came up empty. I searched
all drives. I exported file from outlook express. Did a search and it found
one, went to it. When I opened it, was empty. I checked my address book in
outlook and address are still there. ? Is there another extension that it
could be using? Any and all help greatly appreciated.
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When you export it use the save as csv option. Hit the browse
button and save it to your desktop. you should find a file
there with the name you gave it followed by .csv (comma seperated
values). On the new install import this csv file to OE.

gls858
 
Here is something to ponder. I went to article list in above message. I did
a search, put in the string "*.wab" and the search came up empty. I searched
all drives. I exported file from outlook express. Did a search and it found
one, went to it. When I opened it, was empty. I checked my address book in
outlook and address are still there. ? Is there another extension that it
could be using? Any and all help greatly appreciated. I keep posting in
wrong place, sorry.
 
Okay that took care of it, thanks again.

gls858 said:
When you export it use the save as csv option. Hit the browse
button and save it to your desktop. you should find a file
there with the name you gave it followed by .csv (comma seperated values).
On the new install import this csv file to OE.

gls858
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