Really, whatever way works best. Regardless of how you do it, you will
probably end up with addresses you no longer need, but can easily delete
them.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"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