Your first problem is so incompletely described that I assume you have
another thread somewhere that includes the relevant information needed to
solve it. Consult that thread.

Your second problem has been answered countless times. Exporting and
importing are never the correct way to transfer Outlook data. Doing so
through a non-Outlook format is just a guarantee that you will lose and
corrupt data. Electronic addresses, for example, are never resolved when you
import them. That of course is why they don't show up in the Address Book
view. Open and save each Contact record one at a time to force the
resolution, or go back and transfer the data correctly: Place them in a PST
file and open that PST file in the new installation. Do not ever touch the
export and import command to transfer Outlook data ever again. Not even
once.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Blasting Cap" wrote in message
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I am trying to get a couple issues resolved with Outlook 2003 on a Windows
XP media system.

First issue is with the "The Operation Failed" with your only option an OK
button. I've re-created the profile, but it hasn't been fixed yet.

The system was originally connected to a Microsoft Exchange server, as its
default mail server. The user had a number of contacts, which were saved
as a Windows CSV file. The contacts, once the Exchange server was removed
from Outlook, were imported. They show up in contacts.

This brings me to the second problem - even though the contacts that were
imported into Outlook show up under Contacts, when you click on the Check
Name tool on the toolbar, it can't find it, looking in Contacts, and
Address book has no entries.

How do you make this thing check name against the contacts you have on the
system? These problems may be related to one another.

Please advise.

Thanks,

BC