Outlook express to Outlook 03

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I have been using express 6.0 and want to move to Outlook 2003, is there a
way to import all my settings and address book and such automatically to
2003. Or will this be a manual process?
 
Michael Senteno said:
I have been using express 6.0 and want to move to Outlook 2003, is
there a way to import all my settings and address book and such
automatically to 2003. Or will this be a manual process?
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When you install OL 2003, I believe the installation process will ask you if
you want to transfer your data from OE. I believe that's not the optimum
choice, for the reason I'll state below.

To transfer your account settings, in Outlook click File>Import and
Export>Import Internet Mail Account Settings>Next. To transfer your address
book to Outlook, in Outlook, click File>Import and Export>Import Internet
Mail and Addresses. Select Outlook Express and UNCHECK "Import Mail" (do
that in the next step). Click Next. Select the duplicate handling you want
and click FInish.

To transfer your messages, in Outlook Express click File>Export>Messages.
Click OK to the warning popup. Select the folders you wish to transfer (or
leave the "All folders" default selected) and click OK. I suggest this
approach (exporting messages from OE to Outlook) because it leaves the
Received time stamp intact. Importing from OE using Outlook would change
the Received time stamp to be the date and time of import instead of the
original.
 
Dear Brian,
I read your answer to Michael Senteno, but it didn't work for me. I
copied my address book from Outlook Express to a disk. My old computer is now
dead and I cannot access it, but the copy of my address book won't open. I
asked Outlook to import it, but it tells me that it is in use by another
program and that it cannot open the file. I can't figure what other program
is using it since it is stored on a rewritable disk that I just inserted. I
tried copying the fil to my computer and then accessing it and got the same
message. I have two copies of my address book on the disk. One is named
Administrator and the other is Jim May(my name). So I"m not sure what to do.
Even if I can just print out that file, that would be great, but of course
transferring them electronically is first choice. Any suggestions?

Jim
 
One more thing. When I try and open the address book by double clicking on
it, I'm told that it has been locked by another application so I guess this
is the problem. I have no idea how to get around this or even what
application locked it.

Jim
 
tokyojim said:
I copied my address book from Outlook Express to a disk.
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Exactly what file did you copy and how?
My old
computer is now dead and I cannot access it, but the copy of my
address book won't open.
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With what application are you trying to open it? What steps are you using
to open it?
I asked Outlook to import it, but it tells
me that it is in use by another program and that it cannot open the
file.
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Outlook can't import a Windows Address Book directly, if that's the address
book to which you refer.
I can't figure what other program is using it since it is
stored on a rewritable disk that I just inserted.
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Copy it to your hard drive first and remove the read-only attribute. I
believe that what you're seeing is because the file is read-only and so the
application attempting to open it believes it is write-locked by another
program.
I tried copying the
fil to my computer and then accessing it and got the same message.
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Remove the read-only attribute.
I have two copies of my address book on the disk. One is named
Administrator and the other is Jim May(my name). So I"m not sure
what to do. Even if I can just print out that file, that would be
great, but of course transferring them electronically is first
choice. Any suggestions?
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Assuming you have WAB files, after following the above instructions for
each, open each in turn with the Windows Address Book application and see
what they contain. Keep the one you want.
 
Thanks Brian for your answers.
Exactly what file did you copy and how?
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I guess I copied the address book file. I did a search for ".wab" files.

With what application are you trying to open it? What steps are you using
to open it?
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I followed the steps in your last e-mail. I tried to use Outlook 2003 to
import the files I had copied to a disk.
Outlook can't import a Windows Address Book directly, if that's the address
book to which you refer.
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Oh. No wonder it didn't work.

Copy it to your hard drive first and remove the read-only attribute. I
believe that what you're seeing is because the file is read-only and so the
application attempting to open it believes it is write-locked by another
program.
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I already tried that and that didn't work. I even removed the read only
attribute as you said but still got the same message.
Assuming you have WAB files, after following the above instructions for
each, open each in turn with the Windows Address Book application and see
what they contain. Keep the one you want.
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OK, opening it with the Windows Address book application worked. When I
first tried to do that, I was told that it was not the default vcard viewer.
So after I made it the default vcard viewer it worked. Now I can open it,
but am still not sure how to import it into Outlook. I'll go back to the
last e-mail and try to follow the instructions once again. I thought I just
tried that with no success, but maybe I did something wrong. Thanks Brian.
At the very least I have access to the old addresses. Hopefully I won't have
to re-enter them by hand, but it is not impossible.

tj
 
Brian,
I followed the instructions below. I highlighted the folder which
contains my address book, but when I tell it to import the addresses it just
tells me that 0 addresses have been transferred. For some reason it doesn't
seem to do it.

I recently purchased on old used compuuter - a duplicate of the old one I
had - and I plan to put the old hard drive in it and I should be able to
access everything again when I get the computer. I'll try the export process
when I get it and can access Outlook Express.

Jim
 
tokyojim said:
OK, opening it with the Windows Address book application worked.
When I first tried to do that, I was told that it was not the default
vcard viewer. So after I made it the default vcard viewer it worked.
Now I can open it, but am still not sure how to import it into
Outlook.
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Open Outlook and click File>Import and Export>Internet Mail and
Addresses>Next. Select Outlook Express, uncheck Import Mail and Import
Rules and click Next. Select the duplicate handling you want and click
Finish.
 
Hi Brian,
I read your answer to Michael Senteno's question, on how to transfer mails,
address books etc, from OE 6 to Outloom 2003. I have been trying to do the
same thing myself. I have tried exporting from OE6, and importing from
Outlook 2003. It works, however I'm only getting a small percentage of the
emails. for example my inbox in OE6 has over 2000 mails in it, and it's onlt
transferring 37 of them, and a similar ratio of my sent box. Why won't
either program allow the whole transfer from OE6 to Out 2003? Any ideas?
Stewart
 
Stew said:
I read your answer to Michael Senteno's question, on how to transfer
mails, address books etc, from OE 6 to Outloom 2003. I have been
trying to do the same thing myself. I have tried exporting from OE6,
and importing from Outlook 2003. It works, however I'm only getting a
small percentage of the emails. for example my inbox in OE6 has over
2000 mails in it, and it's onlt transferring 37 of them, and a
similar ratio of my sent box. Why won't either program allow the
whole transfer from OE6 to Out 2003?
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Are the messages all within the same identity?
 
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