VanguardLH wrote, On 3/27/2014 4:23 PM:
winston wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

For contacts, export them from the WAB (Windows Address Book) to save
them at .vcf files (aka vCards). Select a contact and use the File -
Export menu (in WAB, not in OE) to export as VCF.

Win7 has no address book but instead a folder where you can save the
contacts, which is %userprofile%\Contacts. Export from WAB under WinXP,
copy to the Contacts folder on Win7, and import or drag into whatever
e-mail program you end up using on Win7. You can also just copy the
.wab file to Win7 since some e-mail programs will import from a .wab
file, like WLM (Windows Live Mail), Thunderbird, and Outlook.

Easier way..
Navigate to %userprofile%\Contacts, click Import, select OE Address
book, and browse/select the *.wab file.

Ah, yes, much easier. Copy over the .wab file and just import from it.

I only did the migration once to put in Contact and then to drag the
.vcf files into a new e-mail client. I'm pretty sure back then I was
using Windows Explorer top copy into the Contacts folder and wasn't in
the folder itself and is which I don't recall seeing the Import, Export,
and other toolbar functions show up there. Luckily I only maintain
about 2 dozen contacts so the individual .vcf export was doable. After
dragging the .vcf files into the new e-mail client, the .vcf files in
the Contact folder never get used anymore so I could delete them now,
especially since they won't automatically sync with the contacts within
the e-mail client.


I consistently recommend that folks who use WLM (and don't sync contacts
to the web UI via MSFT account sign-on) to export their contacts (for
backup purposes) to vcf files in a subfolder under userprofile\Contacts.
Exporting to VCF (as opposed to CSV) exports more information than
WLM's limit contstrained CSV export (e.g. only one email address can be
exported - personal, work, or other)...VCF exports all of them.

If they need to import them later in WLM...its just a matter of choosing
the vcf import option, navigate to the subfolder containing the vcf
files, select one, then Control A to select the rest, then OK etc. to
import all in one single process.

Likewise, use of vcf is better for importing when moving from WLM to
Outlook.

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...winston
msft mvp consumer apps