Import .WAB into OE 6

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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?
 
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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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)
 
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 ...
 
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)
 
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