Re: OE 6 disappeared when we upgraded to Office XP

From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:33:09 -0600

"wr4fsu" <wr4fsu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0C5864DA-A431-483C-9A33-A6339638AB9C@microsoft.com
> Here's what happened: we went into Outlook to be ABSOLUTELY SURE that it
> was
> not our default email program. We went to open the Contacts and Outlook
> brought up our lost address book from OE and it was up-to-date. We do not
> know the name of the Outlook Address Book, so we cannot copy it to the OE
> address book "*.wab". If someone can tell us what the name of the Outlook
> Address Book is, we can recover our lost OE address book by copying and
> renaming. I hope this helps someone in the future. I don't want to have
> to
> go thru this again! I am now backing up my address book at least once a
> day.
> Thanks to everyone and God Bless!

Export the Contacts from Outlook as a Text (Comma Separated Values) file.
OE can import the resulting CSV file. 

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