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I currently have this address book on my xp desktop. I would like to use it on my HP HDX premium 16 series laptop 64 bit with windows 7.0 When I try to load the program, it says that it is not compatible. Help! How do I preserve and use my address book?
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The address book data file was apparently plain text so you can move to something else.
Thank you for your response. I don't know what you mean. I've never tried to move a data base before and I'm not sure what to do. Any suggestions? Anything would be appreciated. Thanks again.
All levels of users arrive here so if I give a newbie answer to a computer programmer the computer programmer is offended. The same is true in reverse so...
Here's a note about 7's compatibility settings -> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows
If that fails you can try looking at the data base file with NOTEPAD. Since using notepad is a basic Windows skill I hope you will try that.
Bob
EXPORT the address book from Parson's Address Book as a CSV (comma separated values) text file.
Once you have that *.CSV file you can import it into an email application such as Outlook or Thunderbird or you can also import it into Excel or another spreadsheet application.
Noted widely such as http://www.techxplore.net/2009/05/06/converting-parsons-technology-address-book-file-to-microsoft-address-book/ it's not much work to get it to some text file ready for the apps you noted.
Bob
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