Backup or copy Address book

How does one back-up or copy their Address Book? I find that someone has put my
address book on to my "flash" drive, and I can't figure how they did it!! I
would like to replace it with an updated version and can't figure out how!



Thanks in advance--

Big John

Click Start/All Programs/Accessories/Address Book and when it opens, click
Help/About to determine the location of your WAB file. Copy that WAB file
to any location you desire and then check the location for the Address Book
in the registry and modify it to agree with the location where you copied it
to. The key to search for in the registry is:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\WAB
\WAB4
\Wab File Name

Make sure to wrap the name and location within quotes, particularly if there
are any spaces in the path, such as:
"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/John.WAB"
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Big John" wrote in message
et...
How does one back-up or copy their Address Book? I find that someone has
put my address book on to my "flash" drive, and I can't figure how they
did it!! I would like to replace it with an updated version and can't
figure out how!



Thanks in advance--

Big John

Hi Jim
I thought the OP was asking how to 'export' his address book to the flash
drive to replace the one put there by another.
That is how I backup,copy my address book.
I do not think he has lost his AB.
Hope you don't mind - its the way I readthe post - from a non-tech minded
position :-)
Rgds
Antioch


"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Click Start/All Programs/Accessories/Address Book and when it opens, click
Help/About to determine the location of your WAB file. Copy that WAB file
to any location you desire and then check the location for the Address
Book in the registry and modify it to agree with the location where you
copied it to. The key to search for in the registry is:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\WAB
\WAB4
\Wab File Name

Make sure to wrap the name and location within quotes, particularly if
there are any spaces in the path, such as:
"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/John.WAB"
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.




"Big John" wrote in message
et...
How does one back-up or copy their Address Book? I find that someone has
put my address book on to my "flash" drive, and I can't figure how they
did it!! I would like to replace it with an updated version and can't
figure out how!



Thanks in advance--

Big John

Guess we'll have to wait and see what the particular problem is to be sure,
when and if, the poster comes back.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express



"antioch" wrote in message
...
Hi Jim
I thought the OP was asking how to 'export' his address book to the flash
drive to replace the one put there by another.
That is how I backup,copy my address book.
I do not think he has lost his AB.
Hope you don't mind - its the way I readthe post - from a non-tech minded
position :-)
Rgds
Antioch


"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Click Start/All Programs/Accessories/Address Book and when it opens,
click Help/About to determine the location of your WAB file. Copy that
WAB file to any location you desire and then check the location for the
Address Book in the registry and modify it to agree with the location
where you copied it to. The key to search for in the registry is:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\WAB
\WAB4
\Wab File Name

Make sure to wrap the name and location within quotes, particularly if
there are any spaces in the path, such as:
"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/John.WAB"
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.




"Big John" wrote in message
et...
How does one back-up or copy their Address Book? I find that someone
has put my address book on to my "flash" drive, and I can't figure how
they did it!! I would like to replace it with an updated version and
can't figure out how!



Thanks in advance--

Big John

Jim Pickering wrote:
Guess we'll have to wait and see what the particular problem is to be
sure, when and if, the poster comes back.

Hi-I'm back, and Antioch was correct - actually I was interested in finding out
how to do just that - and now it is pretty obvious, a simple export will work
for what I was looking for but I was also delighted to get the info provided by
Jim. Many thanks to both of you!!

bj

Big John wrote:
Jim Pickering wrote:

Guess we'll have to wait and see what the particular problem is to be
sure, when and if, the poster comes back.


Hi-I'm back, and Antioch was correct - actually I was interested in
finding out how to do just that - and now it is pretty obvious, a
simple export will work for what I was looking for but I was also
delighted to get the info provided by Jim. Many thanks to both of you!!

bj
Well I shot off my mouth too quick!!

When I went in and tried a simple export, it exported OK, but now I have a CSV
file, which is OK, but the old Address Book which was already on my flash drive
is a .wab file and looks exactly like the one in my mail folder when opened -
that's what I was looking to do. Does this make sense??

bj

Well, let's go back to the registry and see what Windows is using as the
default Address Book.

Click Start/Run and type: regedit and hit the OK button. Then look at this
key and tell us what Windows is showing as the default name and location for
the Address Book. It sounds like the path in use will be for your flash
drive.

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\WAB
\WAB4
\Wab File Name Click on this key to see the see the
location and name of the file in use in the right hand pane.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.




"Big John" wrote in message
et...
Big John wrote:
Jim Pickering wrote:

Guess we'll have to wait and see what the particular problem is to be
sure, when and if, the poster comes back.


Hi-I'm back, and Antioch was correct - actually I was interested in
finding out how to do just that - and now it is pretty obvious, a simple
export will work for what I was looking for but I was also delighted to
get the info provided by Jim. Many thanks to both of you!!

bj
Well I shot off my mouth too quick!!

When I went in and tried a simple export, it exported OK, but now I have a
CSV file, which is OK, but the old Address Book which was already on my
flash drive is a .wab file and looks exactly like the one in my mail
folder when opened - that's what I was looking to do. Does this make
sense??

bj

"Big John" je napisal v sporocilo
et ...
How does one back-up or copy their Address Book? I find that someone has
put my address book on to my "flash" drive, and I can't figure how they
did it!! I would like to replace it with an updated version and can't
figure out how!



Thanks in advance--

Big John

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Well, let's go back to the registry and see what Windows is using as the
default Address Book.

Click Start/Run and type: regedit and hit the OK button. Then look at
this key and tell us what Windows is showing as the default name and
location for the Address Book. It sounds like the path in use will be for
your flash drive.

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\WAB
\WAB4
\Wab File Name Click on this key to see the see the
location and name of the file in use in the right hand pane.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.


Hi Jim
Slightly OT, hope big john does not mind, but I have often wondered with the
xport of the AB, as it is exported and saved in the format of an excel
sheet, what if one does not have Excel but say Open Office or just MS Works,
would it save it to the equivalent type of format found in those
applications?
Rgds
Antioch

"antioch" wrote in message
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Hi Jim
Slightly OT, hope big john does not mind, but I have often wondered with
the xport of the AB, as it is exported and saved in the format of an excel
sheet, what if one does not have Excel but say Open Office or just MS
Works, would it save it to the equivalent type of format found in those
applications?
Rgds
Antioch

Any program that can open a CSV file should open it correctly and they can
always use Notepad to open an CSV file if they need the raw data. Excel
uses XLS as its default file extension when saving files.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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