Exporting OE Addresses
Posted by admin on Jul 23rd, 2006
I'm having a problem moving my addresses into Vista Mail. At first I thought it was a Windows Mail problem, but now I think it is an OE problem. When I export my address book, about 2/3 of the entries do not get the first and last name fields exported. Only the full name field. This makes it impossible to sort these 2/3 by last name in Windows Mail (the other 1/3 works just fine). I can see no difference in the OE address book between those that export and those that do not. They all definitely have first and last name fields populated in OE. I looked at the csv export file and confirmed that these fields are not in the Excel spreadsheet. I made sure that I checked first and last names on the list of fields to export.Curiously, and perhaps related, after I import to Windows Contacts, if I open one of the bad entries and then close it, the first and last name fields get populated. I'm not sure where this data is coming from, and there doesn't seem to be a global way to fix this problem. Anyone have any suggestions?
Jul 29th, 2006 at 02:03 am
I exported the contacts list from OE in my old Win98 box to a flash drive using the 'Windows Address Book' (WAB} format. moved the flash drive to new machine and from address book in Vista, import contacts and select WAB mode. Worked fine.My only problem and someone please help me here is that groups that were perviously set up or new ones created in Windows Mail are nearly indistinguishable from simple contact entries. Formerly, Groups were shown in bold and there were some more sorting options. Perhaps I missed something but this is far from optimalThanks Oppie"Bob"
Jul 30th, 2006 at 05:28 pm
Oops first message sent in newsgroups on new Vista machine and somehow 'Microsoft Support' got entered into wrong field. Fixed it now... Oppie
Aug 4th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Thats the way it is now. Each items is a .contact file and other than a few tweaks here and there, notice how it looks like Windows Exporer? That's why the groups are not bold. "Microsoft Support"
Aug 5th, 2006 at 08:15 pm
Which is exactly why it stinks. So now I have to set up a damn database to sort the .contacts and .groups? hopefully there will be some widget to do this.Arrrgh!"DGuess"
Aug 11th, 2006 at 08:43 am
OK, Experience is a good thing and I now recant part of my rage against the contact list.I was focusing on the contacts list that got imported from the old machine. Yes, it does look messy and difficult to read.... *but* if you are starting a mail message and click the address book icon to the left of the 'To:" you will find the feel of the OE style address select. That is with everything in alphabetical order with the Groups in bold font. Ok, so we lost the Folders and shared lists but this may be just another way to go at it. Time will tell.Another thing I realized was that when searching messages, for example by sender, that the option in edit > find... was now gone. It now moved to the top right of the windows mail screen. Actually a more functional place for this.Hang in there Oppie"Oppie"