Re: Troubleshooting Transfer Mail/Address Book to New Computer

Copy all of the WAB files from your CD to a folder on your Desktop. Then open that folder, right click all the WAB files and make sure the "Read-Only" attribute set when a file is copied to a CD is cleared. Then double click each wab file in turn until you find the one with the contacts you are looking for. Then open your existing Address Book (Start/Run/All Programs/Accessories/Address Book) and use the Address Book menu to import from the older WAB file. Should work.
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
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"Mary Ann" <MaryAnn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:80917111-3B91-4C15-9C5A-9BA6A9F44550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Jim, with your help I'm halfway there. I ended up sending all of the
email folders to My Documents f irst and importing from there. Couldn't make
it work the other way. But this ended up working fine. I now have all my
email.

I'm still struggling with getting the addressbook. I did a search on .wab
on the new computer and ended up with a listing of 4 files and wasn't sure
what was what. I exported to a comma delimited text file from the old
computer to a CD and tried to import from that CD to the new computer. I get
an import error. Msg doesn't give me any more information than that so I'm
not sure what the problem is. I'll try again to import from the files I
found when I did the .wab search on the new computer. Maybe one of them will
work. Otherwise, I'm at a loss. I'll let you know what I come up with.

Thanks
--
Mary Ann


"Jim Pickering" wrote:

Try importing the messages from the "other" message store folder
(File/Import/Messages, selecting OE6 and From a Message Store, pointing to
the "other" store folder) and see if that works. The long string of numbers
relates to a different Identity on your old computer and the new computer is
most likely using the default "Main Identity" with a different GUID (the
correct name for the long string of letters/numbers).
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
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"Mary Ann" <MaryAnn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9BD4A8F5-FF35-4CE4-8D1E-11CD87CD4FDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Just got a new computer with XP Media Center. Did a transfer of > programs
> and
> files from old computer (XP Home Edition) last night using AlohaBob PC
> Relocator. All seemed to go well, but Outlook Express on new computer
> does
> not have old email, folders or address book. Attempted to re transfer
> these
> files but AlohaBob says it's already done and won't let me redo it. > Did a
> search for .dbx in hidden files on the new computer and found them, but
> they
> are in a different file than shown in the "Store Folder" path in OE.
> (It's
> the same path, except that the long string of numbers/letters is > different
> and matches the path on the old computer). I presume that is why they
> don't
> show up. I thought I could fix it by changing the path to match the > one
> where they are stored, but the application only lets me browse and > click
> on
> my desired location which prevents me from designating a hidden file.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Preferred solution would be to get > the
> path pointing to where the files are or files where the path is. I
> thought I
> might also be able to export the email and address book from the old
> computer
> and import to the new, but I can't seem to get this to work either. > How
> frustrating!
> -- > Mary Ann



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