How do I move contacts from home computer to laptop?

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I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?
 
I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities you
do have then. We can't just guess that.
 
I'm sorry, I'm sort of a novice computer user. I have a floppy drive on my
home computer and a CD/DVD drive on my laptop. I understand that I have
networking capabilities through Windows XP to share files on both computers,
but I haven't run the networking wizard as yet.

Russ Valentine said:
I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities you
do have then. We can't just guess that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Toni said:
I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?
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So in essence a floppy is your only way to transfer data? That will be most
problematic. The best you can hope for is that the data in your Contacts
Folder will not exceed 1.4 MB. Your Outlook Data File most certainly will
exceed that, so you must create a second, empty Outlook Data File and copy
only your Contacts Folder into that. Close Outlook, then hope that second
PST file will fit on a floppy.
Copy that file onto your laptop, remove its read only attribute, open it in
Outlook and copy your Contacts from it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Toni said:
I'm sorry, I'm sort of a novice computer user. I have a floppy drive on
my
home computer and a CD/DVD drive on my laptop. I understand that I have
networking capabilities through Windows XP to share files on both
computers,
but I haven't run the networking wizard as yet.

Russ Valentine said:
I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities
you
do have then. We can't just guess that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Toni said:
I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?
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Another way, if the file size is bigger that 1.44 is getting one of those
freeware that splits large files into smaller ones, and then, after copying
all of them in hte laptop, launch the .bat that puts them all together again
into one file.

If you had a netwoork at home then
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/comm/fwoutlook.html can help you



Russ Valentine said:
So in essence a floppy is your only way to transfer data? That will be
most problematic. The best you can hope for is that the data in your
Contacts Folder will not exceed 1.4 MB. Your Outlook Data File most
certainly will exceed that, so you must create a second, empty Outlook
Data File and copy only your Contacts Folder into that. Close Outlook,
then hope that second PST file will fit on a floppy.
Copy that file onto your laptop, remove its read only attribute, open it
in Outlook and copy your Contacts from it.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Toni said:
I'm sorry, I'm sort of a novice computer user. I have a floppy drive on
my
home computer and a CD/DVD drive on my laptop. I understand that I have
networking capabilities through Windows XP to share files on both
computers,
but I haven't run the networking wizard as yet.

Russ Valentine said:
I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities
you
do have then. We can't just guess that.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?
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