Hi,

Just a thought.

Make a copy of each address book file, then experiment with the copies.

Ken

"Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
...
| Thanks again, Bruce. The pieces are slowly falling into place.
|
| From what you have said below, I thought that folders could not be
imported.
| However, I just found an old empty .wab file on my wife's computer and
| imported her current ABook into it, and all folders appear to have been
| successfully imported.
|
| To avoid possible problems with exporting/importing folders, however, I
| propose to export B and import it to A. I presume that you then suggested
| that we export the new A and import it into B so that the desired
(updated)
| ABook is in the default OE location -- is that correct? Given my
experience
| above, perhaps we should delete all the addresses in B before importing
from
| A, so that (hopefully) the folders will also be imported into B from A.
| Otherwise, would it be safe (having backed up both files g) to move the
| updated file A.wab so that it simply replaces B.wab in the OE default
| location?
|
| Thanks again for your help.
|
| --
| Lindsay Graham
|
| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
| ...
| Addresses will not be modified. If you have an old address for someone
and
| it changed, you will end up with both. You can export B and import it to
A
| and then export the new A and import that into B, (phew, I think you
can),
| but that will only do addresses.
|
| Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
|
| Create a "standalone" WAB file:
| http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe
|
| Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
| member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
| Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB
| file and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the
Enter
| key to OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that wab
| file to a floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders and
| groups neither import, nor export.
| --
|
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| Imperial Beach, CA
|
|
| "Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
| ...
| Thank you, Bruce. However, I'm not sure that that will fix her
problem.
|
| Basically, she had an old Address Book (call it A) with many addresses
in
| folders. Her new Address Book (call it B) has all the same individual
| addresses in it, with some additions and modifications, but no folders.
| She wants to have all the addresses in B allocated to the folders in A.
| It would be very difficult to manually recreate the folders from B in
A,
| because she does not have any other record of which addresses were put
in
| which folders. You have suggested an import from A to B -- this would
| not add any new addresses, because B is more up-to-date than A, and I'm
| not sure whether it would add the folders that exist in A.
|
| If we do it the other way around (ie, import B into A), the folders are
| already in B and I assume that new addresses would be added. However,
| would addresses that have been modified in B be updated in A when the
| import from B is done?
|
| --
| Lindsay Graham
|
| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
| ...
| Open the new Address Book. File | Import | Address Book (wab) and
point
| to
| the old one. The import will add all the addresses from the old AB and
| leave the addresses already there alone.
| --
|
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| Imperial Beach, CA
|
|
| "Lindsay Graham" wrote in message
| ...
| My colleague's computer blew up recently and the local computer shop
| rebuilt her hard drive and reinstalled all programs. She uses OE6
and
| her problem is that her new Address Book seems to have all the
| addresses
| (she has several thousand) that were there previously, but the
folders
| in
| which she had the addresses previously have disappeared.
|
| I searched her hard drive and found the original Address Book with
the
| folders. However, she has now added and updated etc many addresses
in
| her new Address Book. How can she combine both Address Books, so
that
| the end result is an Address Book with all the old folders and all
the
| new addresses?
|
| Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
|
| --
| Lindsay Graham
| Canberra, Australia
|
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