Is there a way of importing an address book into outlook express from the
outlook express folder?

Running Xp and someone has given me a hard drive with Win2000 on it, cant
boot into it, but the drive shows up ok in XP, is there a way of getting his
address book from within the folders on that disk? as I cant load 2000 up and
export his address book

Thanks

Have you tried asking the experts in the Outlook Express newsgroups?

Tom
"Goose" <Goose@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Is there a way of importing an address book into outlook express from the
| outlook express folder?
|
| Running Xp and someone has given me a hard drive with Win2000 on it, cant
| boot into it, but the drive shows up ok in XP, is there a way of getting
his
| address book from within the folders on that disk? as I cant load 2000 up
and
| export his address book
|
| Thanks

OE uses the Windows Address Book.

Typically located here >>
%appdata%\Microsoft\Address Book
or
%homepath%\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book

Locate the WAB file somename.wab and move or copy it to another drive.

Unless it is huge, it will fit on a 3 1/2" floppy.

WAB transfer to a different machine

WAB is the Windows Address Book.

I'm assuming that the two machines are not connect in any way. Like a
network or a Direct Cable Connection. Copy your Windows Address Book to a
floppy.

Do a Search for *.wab
* is a wild card and will locate all wab files on your machine.
wab is the file extension for all Windows Address Books.
Mine is Wesley P_ Vogel.wab

Or Open Windows Address Book | Click Help | About Address Book |
Copy the path and paste it into the Start | Run box | Click OK

Typically located here >>
%appdata%\Microsoft\Address Book
or
%homepath%\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Application Data\Microsoft\Address
Book

Once your WAB is located right click it and select: Send To |
3½" Floppy (A Make sure there's a disk in the floppy drive.

Stick the disk you copied the *.wab to in the XP machine's floppy drive and
copy it to:
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Application Data\
Microsoft\Address Book

To open the floppy disk...
Start | Run | Type: a: | OK |
Right click your *.wab file and select: Copy

This will open the proper folder...
Start | Run | Type or paste the following:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Address Book\Microsoft\Address Book

Click OK or hit the ENTER key.

Right click the right hand pane and select: Paste

You should now see your *.wab file.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:999B2C48-F322-4D8D-B068-C2041BFB79AB@microsoft.com,
Goose <Goose@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Is there a way of importing an address book into outlook express from the
> outlook express folder?
>
> Running Xp and someone has given me a hard drive with Win2000 on it, cant
> boot into it, but the drive shows up ok in XP, is there a way of getting
> his address book from within the folders on that disk? as I cant load
> 2000 up and export his address book
>
> Thanks