How do I copy the Outlook Contacts file?

I've just replaced my laptop's hard drive and need my contacts to do
business. I've read a couple of the instructions for people with my same
question, but I still have problems doing so. I managed it before, when I
copied my Contacts from my laptop to Outlook under my profile on my wife's
desktop. Now I can find the pst file, but it's one big file and not just the
contacts. I don't understand anymore how to access just the contacts, and
e-mail it to myself to download on the laptop (nothing to save it onto, and
networking is not-working).

PLEASE HELP!!!!

I did this before using the network, through the hub. Now the network places
are gone and I just need to be able to find the file on the desktop, e-mail
the file to myself and download it on the laptop to the proper location. I
feel as dumb as an anchor because I don't know how to find the Contacts part
of the Personal Folder anymore. Extremely frustrating. Now I've just
remembered that the guy didn't save my Favorites folder either, with hundreds
of critical research links, and I'm in the middle of a manuscript...

"Rashied" wrote:

I've just replaced my laptop's hard drive and need my contacts to do
business. I've read a couple of the instructions for people with my same
question, but I still have problems doing so. I managed it before, when I
copied my Contacts from my laptop to Outlook under my profile on my wife's
desktop. Now I can find the pst file, but it's one big file and not just the
contacts. I don't understand anymore how to access just the contacts, and
e-mail it to myself to download on the laptop (nothing to save it onto, and
networking is not-working).

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Anchor-Man here again, trying to be self-sufficient and show some initiative,
and failing miserably. I found the PST file, copied it to My Docs, then
burned to a CD. Took that to the laptop, and Windows can't read it. Tried
e-mailing straight from the desktop's Outlook folder, but at 312Mb, it's a
hefty care package. Running XP Pro and Outlook '03 on the laptop. What else
can I try to get this resolved?

"Rashied" wrote:

I did this before using the network, through the hub. Now the network places
are gone and I just need to be able to find the file on the desktop, e-mail
the file to myself and download it on the laptop to the proper location. I
feel as dumb as an anchor because I don't know how to find the Contacts part
of the Personal Folder anymore. Extremely frustrating. Now I've just
remembered that the guy didn't save my Favorites folder either, with hundreds
of critical research links, and I'm in the middle of a manuscript...

"Rashied" wrote:

I've just replaced my laptop's hard drive and need my contacts to do
business. I've read a couple of the instructions for people with my same
question, but I still have problems doing so. I managed it before, when I
copied my Contacts from my laptop to Outlook under my profile on my wife's
desktop. Now I can find the pst file, but it's one big file and not just the
contacts. I don't understand anymore how to access just the contacts, and
e-mail it to myself to download on the laptop (nothing to save it onto, and
networking is not-working).

PLEASE HELP!!!!

"Rashied" wrote in message
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Anchor-Man here again, trying to be self-sufficient and show some
initiative,
and failing miserably. I found the PST file, copied it to My Docs, then
burned to a CD. Took that to the laptop, and Windows can't read it.

How do you mean "Windows can't read it"? What is "it"? The CD or the file on
the CD? if the latter, then that's normal - only Outlook can read a pst
file.

Hi, Gordon,

I was trying to drag and drop the file to the right folder, not actually
"read" the file; that it can only be opened by Outlook was clear to me from
when I drag-dropped the file to my wife's desktop several months ago. Now, I
just have the file on CD and can't do anything with it, least of all copy it
to the proper folder.

"Gordon" wrote:

"Rashied" wrote in message
...
Anchor-Man here again, trying to be self-sufficient and show some
initiative,
and failing miserably. I found the PST file, copied it to My Docs, then
burned to a CD. Took that to the laptop, and Windows can't read it.

How do you mean "Windows can't read it"? What is "it"? The CD or the file on
the CD? if the latter, then that's normal - only Outlook can read a pst
file.

All that and I didn't answer the question, really. Windows is not reading
the disk, which puzzles me because it's brand new. The dialogue box says
that the disk may be corrupted or using an incompatible format. Does that
sound remotely probable?

"Gordon" wrote:

"Rashied" wrote in message
...
Anchor-Man here again, trying to be self-sufficient and show some
initiative,
and failing miserably. I found the PST file, copied it to My Docs, then
burned to a CD. Took that to the laptop, and Windows can't read it.

How do you mean "Windows can't read it"? What is "it"? The CD or the file on
the CD? if the latter, then that's normal - only Outlook can read a pst
file.

"Rashied" wrote in message
...
Hi, Gordon,

I was trying to drag and drop the file to the right folder, not actually
"read" the file; that it can only be opened by Outlook was clear to me
from
when I drag-dropped the file to my wife's desktop several months ago.
Now, I
just have the file on CD and can't do anything with it, least of all copy
it
to the proper folder.


What do you mean by "can't do anything with it"? Can you read the CD? Can
you copy the file from the CD to your HDD?

No; I can neither read the CD nor copy the file from the CD to the HDD. I'm
getting a dialogue box that tells me that the disk is not formatted, and that
it is either corrupted or using an incompatible format. The reason this
puzzles me is that I haven't had to format the CDs for anything else. Is
there a difference in a CD that one copies data files to and one that is used
for copying music files to? Maybe I'm using the wrong kind of disk.

"Gordon" wrote:

What do you mean by "can't do anything with it"? Can you read the CD? Can
you copy the file from the CD to your HDD?

"Rashied" wrote in message
...
No; I can neither read the CD nor copy the file from the CD to the HDD.
I'm
getting a dialogue box that tells me that the disk is not formatted, and
that
it is either corrupted or using an incompatible format. The reason this
puzzles me is that I haven't had to format the CDs for anything else. Is
there a difference in a CD that one copies data files to and one that is
used
for copying music files to? Maybe I'm using the wrong kind of disk.



Did you finalize the CD when you burned it on the other machine?

I thought that was already a part of its process, but I'll try redoing it and
see if that makes a difference. I'll let you know the outcome. Thanks for
trying to help me, Gordon; much appreciated. I'll be in touch.

"Gordon" wrote:

Did you finalize the CD when you burned it on the other machine?