Dear Jim,
I am from sweden and maybee it's hard for me to explain what I need.
I have a customer that has created a lot of OE wab-files for their contacts.
They have also made a lot of different groups in those files.
I understand that I can export all those wab files to cvs files and import
them into someting else. That would be a disaster. All the grouping info
inside of the different wab files willl be lost. The customer has about
15.000 adresses (not for spam purposes. Its about different categories in a
special business worldwide). The wab files is different countries. Grouped by
category.
The country is well known. I can make an cvs export, imprt it into access
and then add country info automaticly, but beacuse of that I can not export
the group info the grouping will be lost. Maybee you call it info on
distrubution groups.
Dear Jim, PLS create a mailing group of some adresses and navigate to the
"other" tab. There will be info on what groups the person belongs to. That
info is what I need. Maybe OE stores it some place else but probebly the most
logic thing is that the info is placed in the wab file.
Thank you Jim


"Jim Pickering" wrote:

The export/import normally only works for those Contacts in the Shared
Contacts folder. If you move all the contacts into the Shared Contacts, you
will get all of them to export/import. See the info at this link for more
help:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm

And this for using a "standalone" wab file:
http://www.insideoe.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Per Bäckman" wrote in message
...
Thanks but??
It works to export the distr.group information to other mail programs. It
just has to be there.
I made some experiments
I took the adress book and imported it into my main-adressbook for Outlook
Express on this computer. I found that the distrubution groups info were
there so som kind of export import worked.
Then I imported it to contackts in outlook 2003. The groups are still
there.
I tried to examin the "all fields" tab and could not find any group info.
I
also connected to outlook with access 2003 and the distrubution groups
info
is not there in the table even if the distrubution group info still is in
the
adress book.
It seems as I'm really not there to find out how to extract a list with
name, emailadress and distrubution list. Or is there a relation betwen
differet tables do you think.
Thanks



"PA Bear, MS MVP" wrote:

WSIWYG. Groups neither export nor import.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)
AH-VSOP


"Per Bäckman" wrote:

When I try to export adresses from Outlook Express, I can not export
the
group information.
I really need that.
Is there a solution?
Thanks
Per Bäckman