Saving Email Addresses in Microsoft Outlook Express?

You should not be mixing portability with recovery they are not necessarily the same thing.

For recovery and that was the purpose of the article. The file that should be backed up is the Windows Address Book (*.wab). If you have more than one back them all up at least until you figure out which is the one you need/use (the one most recently changed).

If you want to mess with exporting, changing data, and importing your address book, fine, but if you mess up you want to restore your *.wab file.

You may not notice in your Export that you may only be exporting the main address entries and not the shared address entries. The WAB contains both.

When you have a backup and a destoyed address book, you have nothing to lose, you WILL get it right and you have the means to do it. When you have an exported copy and try to restore it to see if it works you are playing with fire, because you could destroy what you have. You must save your actual Windows Address Book before experimenting.

If you upgrade to a more recent system, you can generally use your old WAB and it will be upgraded. If that doesn't work you can try exporting on old system and importing on new system. When restoring to same system you have absolutely no problem restoring your WAB to the location it is currently being called from -- which should be same location it was when you backed it up.

The main thing is to have your data. You will figure out how to restore it when you need it. When you need it and have a backup you are in a very good position -- you have nothing to lose.

You should always keep your personal data separate from system directories, so that you can back them up easily.

I just use a program called "E-Backup" (Inachis). This program backs up ALL the parts of I.E. (passwords, favorites, addressbook, everything). Default b/u folder is "My Documents". Copy the data file to other media. Install the program onto the new system, put the file into the new "My Documents", and restore the data file. I use this whenever I upgrade a new system.

When I backup clients address books, I export it as a comma separated text file and make sure that all the boxes for first name, last name, full name, etc are checked and it always has come over just fine.

Transferring email messages from Outlook Express can be tricky - the easiest and best way I can find is to export it to Outlook and save it as a Personal Folder File (*.pst).

I haven't tried E-backup but it sounds great.

I have formatted my hard disk. i backed up every thing but forget to back up address book.All the addressess are in sent folder which i saved. Is there any way to add them directly to address book?

If you know how Plz reply to :

ankur.gupta.10@gmail.com

pls give me step-by-step option to export microsoft
outlook mail and address book backup.

The pointer above

"this Earthlink support document"
http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/windows_9x_nt/email/outlook_2000/0445.6av.exportabook.psc.html

is no longer valid.

Additionally, references to Microsoft support of vCard should indicate that most data is lost when exporting an address book entry to a vCard file. This tends to make vCard a poor option for saving or exchanging data. If anyone has better information, it would be appreciated.

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I'm getting mail at my hotmail inbox but the pictures either don't come though or they are at the bottom of the page not where the text is can you help?

I upgraded windows outlook express, now I can't change my fonts or open sites from opened emails.
any suggestions as to why?

Hmmm...90% of what I just posted got wiped...trying again...
I downloaded a piece of software called PowerIE which is v. small less than 5MB.
It's a little gem. I was able to cleanly backup Outlook Express email+
addressbook+other junk in a single click.
AND I've verified I can restore any part of it into Outlook Express!
Cool. I think this is exactly what you want.
The link to download PowerIE (free of course !!) is:
http://www.technicland.com/powerie6.php3

To save, open PowerIC, select Outlook Express backup, select email user, give a name to the backup directory, keep the defaults (save messages, address book, signatures, etc) and click save.
To restore use File-Import in Outlook Express, browse for the backup file, select the parts to restore, click OK and you're done.
All your message sub-folders will be saved separately and all or just certain ones can be restored. As for address book importing a saved one adds to previous list (seems to overwrite existing addresses of same name since OE didn't ask anything about overwriting, but ... thats fine for me).
Peter From France

I have just switched to DSL provided by Embarq, and have several email problems, but the one I'm concerned about now is....how can I save emails that I have received? I formerly had a list of folders that I could move messages to....don't see that here.

In all the advice given above there is stilll no help given to saving Outlook Express emails to disk,i.e, CD-R ,DVD. It is quite easy to save them to disk with advice given by a reader some time ago,but unfortunately I did not keep a record of this advice,and am now looking again for it.

I have 2 questions regarding Outlook Express.

I created a signature--but I can't see any way to choose a font, color, etc. so I have to do this individually every time I send an email...which leads to my 2nd question....

How do I ensure that the font, colors, etc that I used when I wrote my email is the way it comes through to the person I send it to?

I am very frustrated that I spend the time to choose these things and I get a reply and my original looks totally defaulted to something boring which is apparently the way it showed up to the recipient!

Thank you!!!

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I only want to spend about a hundred bucks....i need information where i can buy a software package (database) where i can import a foxpro database on my floppy to this database so i can do counts. Thank you in advance

how do i import a csv file (containing email addresses ) into a group in MS Outlook

After I have composed a letter and I go to "Envelopes and Lables" to print a contact info on my envelope--I can not bring up the contact info to apply it to my envelope. I have tried all I have know, to no avail. Got any suggestions?

Help!

I used your & Microsofts own directions to create a Personal Address Book in Outlook, which I was supposed to then be able to import via a Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book into Outlook Express, the problem is I can do everything req'd to get a this ready, but in my OE there is no Import choice for Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book, or any version of Outlook either. Any suggestions?

...somehow when our tech support upgraded me to Office 2003, on opening, my OE address book all moved over to Outlook (which I was NOT USING prior &do not wish to use), and I cannot get it back.

Outlook will compacts your messages automaticly I believe as a .bak file. Is there anyway to get at these old massages maybe one or two years ago, and how long are they saved? I assume they are on the C drive some where.

Thanks

I tried to Export my Yahoo address book and it saved to a csv file but when it imported into Outlook and Outlook Express, it lost the email address. So should I delete all unused columns?

I recently got a new computer. I noticed that on Microsoft Office is not automatically saving the e-mail adresses I have previously sent to. If I go a week or two without sending to a particular e-mail address, the auto complete does not recognize it and in some instances, their e-mail address is not even in the drop down menu.

Is there a way to fix this?

I have a problem with my Outlook Express. When I send out e-mails to multiple addresses, each person on the receiving end receives the same e-mail from me over and over again numerous times. What can I do to fix this?

Thanks.

Have you looked at the emails search script at http://www.biterscripting.com/SS_FindEmailStrs.html ? I find it very useful to

- find lost email addresses
- search email content
- list emails from/to a particular contact
etc.

It guess it is especially useful for sales people to mine/extract data that is already on your computer stored as emails. I have been doing other things with biterscripting too. I find it very flexible.

1. Download biter from http://www.biterscripting.com/install.html . It is free.

2. Start biterscripting.

3. Install all sample scripts using the command

script "http://www.biterscripting.com/Download/SS_AllSamples.txt"

4. Search emails with the command

script SS_FindEmailStrs.txt storagedir("email storage folder") files("*.eml") search_strings("ravi+proposal+December")

Above is an example. It will list all emails from "ravi" with subject "proposal" with content that contains the word "December". Use the correct email storage folder in place of "email storage folder" .

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