Import of Address Book Fails
After reformat and reinstall of Windows 98se we are unable to import Address Book, either to Outlook Express OR to the Address book in Accessories. Prior to reformat and reinstall the Address Book was exported to a floppy disk, we opened the disk and read the address book just to be sure that the export had fully taken place. We now insert floppy disk to the newly reformatted computer, open Outlook Express, choose Import, designate from where to import(floppy disk) and we click go, or import, whatever it says. Disk runs and then we get message Import Success, all files imported. BUT, there is nothing there! This disk CAN be read on another computer. But on this computer, you open floppy disk, see the address file, click on the icon, the address book opens and you see...Nothing...a blank address book. At first thought that maybe, since the book was made up in O.E.6.0 then maybe, since the reinstall just included O.E. 5.0 that maybe this was the problem...so I installed O.E. 6, it CAN be read now on the floppy disk but I still cannot get to Import. Any suggestions
Import of Address Book Fails
This is a rather large Address Book but we know absolutely the original export to the floppy disk worked because it CAN be read AND Printed on two different computers, including the computer the original export was made on. Have tried importing it to two different computers and it just will not go. It "says" the import was successful" but it is not...of course it may be imported "somewhere" on the computer but it certainly is NOT into the address book and a search does not help us find it.
Re: Import of Address Book Fails
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Originally posted by jholland1964
This is a rather large Address Book but we know absolutely the original export to the floppy disk worked because it CAN be read AND Printed on two different computers, including the computer the original export was made on. Have tried importing it to two different computers and it just will not go. It "says" the import was successful" but it is not...of course it may be imported "somewhere" on the computer but it certainly is NOT into the address book and a search does not help us find it.
if it can read off the floppy, why not try to export it off the floppy to a csv file on the desktop then import the csv file into outlook.