Vista - Transfer of Outlook Express address book

Hi,

Before Upgrading to Vista, I followed instructions in Outlook Express
(French Windows XP on Hewlett Packard Pavillion) to export messages and
addresses. The messages loaded into Windows Mail (French Vista on Packard
Bell EasyNote ML 65) without any problem, but the addresses, saved as per
instructions in a .csv file, are not formatting properly: I get a message
telling me to "Associate the fields to at least one of these properties of
Contacts" (translated from the French), with behind it a window inviting me
to "Map the fields for importation". All very logical and expected, except
that there is only one field, with all the original fields (Name, Forename,
e-mail address....) as text within that one field in Vista, each XP field
separated by a comma and characters with French diacritics replaced with
boxes. Clicking on this one field of course has the effect of importing all
the XP fields converted into text into one Vista field, rendering the Vista
list of contacts unusable.

Any ideas anyone?

Many thanks,

Charles Watkins.

HI, Charles
I understand that you'r french so....

In french
bonjour Charles , tu récupère ton ancien fichier xxxx.wab sur une clé USB
par exemple
(fichier carnet d'adresse de Outlook express)
puis dans Windows mail, fichier/importer/contacts Windows
tu sélectionne fichier du carnet d'adresses Windows
ton fichier WAB et ca devrait le faire

In poor English
Hi Charles
with your old xxxx.WAB file saved on a USBkey for example (file pad of
address of Outlook express) then in Windows mail, file / import / contacts
Windows
select file of the address book Windows, your file WAB and then it should
make it

Cordialement Patrick

PS sur les news ne laisse pas apparaitre ton "vrai mail" tu va être spammé
surtout en postant sur les sites US!


"Charles Watkins" <charles.watkins@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
news:%23CVcGMZZJHA.412@xxxxxx

I was having the same problem and solved it following the procedure
below.
The problem is probably that you are converting from one language to
another language.

In my case, the source export file was exported using the Dutch Outlook
Express. This uses ";" as a delimiter and outputs the Dutch field names
in the first line of the export file.

The English version import expects "," as a delimiter and English field
names.

I loaded the csv export file into an editor, replaced the delimiter and
translated the fields to English.

I really think Microsoft made a huge mistake here. Export files should
not be language dependent of course! But since it is such a small
company lacking resources we should be somewhat forgiving... ;-)


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