hi Paul,the penny has finally dropped, it didn't twig with me that it was the g drive for my pen drive. so I finally saved my address book on to the pen drive. if I type in c:\ will it save it in to my documents? I won't be doing this it's just that I'm curious.
many thanks for your patience susan----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:37 PMSubject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book!
Hi Susan, It sounds like you either have no "E:\" drive or it is not working correctly. In this case try the following path instead; C:\addresses.csv And then press the enter key. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Curry Sent: 10 July 2007 21:12 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book! hi paul, when i type that in it just says, address book export tool diolog could not create file" e:\addresses.csv" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:50 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book!Hi Susan, Lets go for a shorter path for the file such as the following location, you say your pen drive is "E:" then lets try the following; E:\addresses.csv Then press the enter key. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Curry Sent: 10 July 2007 20:26 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book! hi paul what should i have typed in to the edit box if i wanted it to go in to my documents? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book!Hi Susan, When saving the file, did you tell it to go to the pen drive letter or did you save it into the "my documents folder where it may have gone by default. Take a look in there and see if it is there. Have you any other drives other than the pend drive?. Good work all the same, I would say you completed the test well its just that the file went somewhere and you need to find it. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Curry Sent: 10 July 2007 18:52 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book! hi Paul, I successfully saved my address book on to my pen drive, well when I hit the space bar on the finish button jaws announced that I had successfully saved my address book on to my pen drive, however when I looked on my pen drive it wasn't there, am I missing the plot here? Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:25 PM Subject: [vip_students] Mini tutorial:Backing up the Outlook Express address book!Hi All, Firstly I would like you all or as many of you as possible to try out the below exercise. Please don't worry if you can't get it right the first time but all the same just do it and report back to the list how you got on and if you picked up any tips while doing it then please share with the list. Likewise if you have had any problems doing it then again please, please, ask questions on the list, we are all here to help each otherokay.In this mini tutorial we are going to perform a back up of our Outlook Express address book. Backing up your outlook express address book can save a lot of trouble if anything ever happened to your system. I have seen more situations where people lost all on their computers and yet the most requested item they wanted back was their address book. So after you all read this I hope that you will create a backup of your OE address book and place it somewhere safe such as a pen drive or a CD. It is also a very handy way of transfering your address book to another PC, or to an updated version of outlook express. Note: it is wise to create a backup of the address on a regular basis. It is no use trying to restore from an old address book as it won't have many of the most recent addresses you have on there so remember to back up at least once a month. [Backing up your address book in Outlook Express ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------ ---- Backing up your address book is fairly simple to do in Outlook express. Step 1. First of all open the Outlook express program, so that you are in the "inbox" area. Step 2. Next, use keys "alt + F to open the File menu and then arrow down to "Export" and then enter on "Address book." A dialogue box will open up. Remember what a dialogue box is?, yes, its a collection of buttons, list and combo boxes as well as radiobuttons.Step 3. The first list you will be in will have various formats which you can export your address book into. I have always felt thatThe best format to use to export your address book is the Text File (comma separated values), so select this option by arrowing down to it and tab to and click the Export button Step 4. Now you will be in a location and file name box. Here enter the path to which you want to save the address book, I have used d:\backup\addresses.csv. Note: this is just a sample location and on each of your computers it could be different If you have a pen drive plugged into your computer it most likely but not excluisively might be the following: e:\. So your path might read, "e::\addresses.csv Note:You can save the file to anywhere you like, but you must namethe file with the suffix .csv, as I have in our example (addresses.csv).Step 5. When you have entered the name of the file and location simply tab too and click the Next button. Step 6. You will now be asked which fields you want to export, these fields represent each part of any details you have about a person. Below is an example; *. First name. *. Last name. *. Email address. *. Phone number. *. Home address. simply put a tick in the box next to the fields you require using the spacebar, then click the Finish button. Note:If all goes well you should be rewarded with a dialogue box announcing Address book export process has completed or some similar message. [(Restoring the backuped address book] To import the backed up address book into a new or different outlook express is again straight forward. Step 1. First click on File, keys "alt + F" then arrow down to Import and then enter on Other Address Book. Step 2. Next, you will be asked what type of address book you want to import, select Text File (comma separated values) from the options list by arrowing down to it and then tab and press the spacebar on the "import button. " Step 3. It will then ask you for the location of the address book, tab key to and press spacebar on the "Browse button", in here do one "reverse tab" which should place you in the folders and file list. Here use your judgment to navigate to where you saved the addresses.csv file and select your backup file, then tab key and enteron the Next button.Note: If you are using something like a pen drive or extra backup drive of some sort and if you know the drive letter of that backup area, it might be "e:, F:, G: etc" then you could simply in the "file location edit box" type in the following; e:\addresses.csv" and press the enter key. The above is only an example, yours could be different. Step 4. 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