-=PCTechTalk=- Re: transferring Outlook Express files via memory stick

Sorry Jan,
    I've been stuck offline with satellite troubles.  It's still not working 
right, so I'm now back to dial-up temporarily.

    WAB.EXE is the actual program that handles your Address Book.  The 
Address Book itself is called xxxx.WAB (where the xxxx is your username). 
For example, mine is named GMan.wab since I called my account GMan when I 
first installed Windows.

    The WAB file in your My Documents folder is not the one you've been 
using.  That location strongly suggess that it's actually an older backup of 
an Address Book.  If you're interested in seeing what addresses are in it, 
copy that one to the stick, too.  You should be able to import it the same 
way.  I would try the old one first.  If it contains nothing you want to 
keep, just delete all of the Address Book entries before Importing the main 
one.

    The file on your stick was made Read Only when you copied it onto the 
stick.  That's normal.  The original is not set to Read Only.  That too, is 
normal.  I'm now wondering if the Read Only attribute on your stick was 
preventing you from Importing it into your new system.  I'm going to suggest 
that you try it again, but this time, remove the Read Only attribute just 
before trying the Import function on the new system.  In other words, copy 
it back onto the stick, take the stick tot he new system, use Windows 
Explorer to view the contents of the stick, Right click on the *.WAB file 
and select Properties from the context menu that opens up.  Uncheck the Read 
Only item and then click on Apply and then on Close.  Finally, open up OE 
(or Windows Mail) and use the Import function to try and read that *.WAB 
file.

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Robey" <hrstreak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "_PCTechTalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:13 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- transferring Outlook Express files via memory stick


> GMan,
>
> Maybe I didn't get the most recent .wab...is there more than one?  When I
> went to delete the wab on the stick it said it was a read-only file, & did 
> I
> still want to delete it.  I clicked on yes.  When I went back to the old
> computer to locate the wab I dragged onto the memory stick & noticed it 
> was
> not a read only.  It is in My documents & listed under 'unknown user .wab 
> ',
> it's properties is 1.01mg, read only....this is the one that did not go
> through.  But, I remembered a .wab.exe listed in programs, Outlook Express
> so I went there to find that one.
>
> I saved that to the stick but that doesn't seem to be current.
>
> Jan 

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