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how do you back up address book on outlook express?

Dec 23, 2004 4:24AM PST

I'm running it on an apple mac. I need to be able to save the address book in its different sections. at the moment i can save it as a text file with 3000 addresses in a list...be good to be able to have it in all its different sections.

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try this
Dec 23, 2004 4:42AM PST

click on the address book icon, file, export 'address book (WAB) choose a location, a name and voila!


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Trying to back up address book for outlook express on a Mac
Feb 5, 2009 9:28AM PST

When I Export Address book, I get a sheet called Contacts Export with first and last names and no email addresses. Oddly a few notes were included.

Yvonne

I'm running Outlook Express 5 on an iMac 17" screen, OSX 10.3.9, Power PC G4, 1 GHz, 766 MB DDR SDRAM.

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Export your Addresses
Feb 5, 2009 8:58PM PST

to a Tab delimited text file. Save it to the desktop and burn it to a CD.

OR

Consider getting away from that old, and unsupported, email client and using the one that came with OS X

You will be able to import all your email addresses from OE to MAIL

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Exporting addresses
Feb 6, 2009 12:04AM PST

the daemon within the program on my computer won't give me that option. However I've copied my address book as something or other and can put in everything manually if the worst happens. I'm getting ready to move from OS 10.3.9 to OS 10.4. When I've done that I'll look into Mac Mail and a lot of other things. Thanks for your help.

Yvonne

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I think, don't quote me,
Feb 6, 2009 2:14AM PST

that Address Book will import directly from some email clients.

In MAIL, there is not an address book as such. Rather, any application that needs names, addresses, email info, etc. gets it from Address Book application.

Good luck with the upgrade. Let us know how you get on

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Backing up addess book in Oulook Express
Feb 6, 2009 8:53AM PST

Thanks. We'll see. I will let you know.

Yvonne