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Why Are FOLDERS Lost When Importing the O/E Address Book?

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by Jake108, 2006/01/23.

  1. 2006/01/23
    Jake108

    Jake108 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am in the process of bringing a fresh installation of XP up to speed. I have imported the Outlook Express (O/E) Address Book (A.B.) from the older, somewhat crippled XP installation to the new one. The Address Book (A.B.) has export and import functions. From the old one I created a .wab file and later imported that file into the new A.B. using the import function.

    The problem is that all FOLDERS (not mailing groups) I had created in the old A.B. did not end up in the new book. However, the mailing GROUPS from the old book were transferred in tact. But mailing groups can only contain address book entries for people and organizations for which an email address is included in the A.B. record.

    Folders allow entries where there may be any combination of other information, such as name, mailing address and phone number, but no email address. Those types of entries are very important to me and, using folders, a person can group address book entries by elements of commonality such as businesses, non-profit organizations, etc.

    It will be a lot of work to recreate those folders. What I don't understand is why Microsoft allows us to create folders and then deletes them in the export/import process.

    Did I not follow instructions correctly? Is there some non-manual way to get it done?
     
  2. 2006/01/24
    Welshjim

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  4. 2006/02/12
    Jake108

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    I Have Tried The MSoft Procedure But Still No Yellow Folders Transferred

    Thank you for your reply and I apologize for the delay in responding.

    I followed the Microsoft procedure you referred me to in your first response, but no yellow folders were transferred.

    I am in the process of recreating the yellow folders semi-manually. All the needed records are in what is now the very large collection of records in the "Main Idendity's Contacts" folder, which is itself a yellow folder. They all got dumped in there during the tranfer process.

    Now I have to identify those that belong in specific "yellow folders" and copy them into new yellow folders which will be created as subsidiaries of the "Main Idendity's Contacts" folder (just as they as they exiat on my system from which they were transferred).

    I will look at the procedure you found at "detto.com" to see if it holds some promise for bypassing the extra work.

    Jake108
     

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