missing address book

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"Adi" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0f7501c42616$2a366380$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi, All,
> Please help if you can - 2 gurus so far and no joy!
>
> I have recently bought a new computer with XP home edition
> preloaded, together with Outlook Express 6. My old machine
> had OE and Windows 98.
>
> I transferred my old hard drive to the new machine where
> it is now in place as a "slave". It appears to be working
> normally.
>
> The problem is that my old OE address book has vanished. I
> have found and transferred all my old emails to the new OE
> from the old hard drive, but when I search for a *.wab
> file or even for "address" or "address book", all I find
> are empty address books. By that I mean that when I open
> the "Default.wab" file, there are no addresses in it. This
> is odd, because the file size is 172K, which seems to
> indicate there should be something there....
>
> Any ideas would be very welcome!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Adi.

Have you tried to IMPORT instead of open?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

Adi wrote:
> Hi, All,
> Please help if you can - 2 gurus so far and no joy!
>
> I have recently bought a new computer with XP home edition
> preloaded, together with Outlook Express 6. My old machine
> had OE and Windows 98.
>
> I transferred my old hard drive to the new machine where
> it is now in place as a "slave". It appears to be working
> normally.
>
> The problem is that my old OE address book has vanished. I
> have found and transferred all my old emails to the new OE
> from the old hard drive, but when I search for a *.wab
> file or even for "address" or "address book", all I find
> are empty address books. By that I mean that when I open
> the "Default.wab" file, there are no addresses in it. This
> is odd, because the file size is 172K, which seems to
> indicate there should be something there....
>
> Any ideas would be very welcome!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Adi.

Is MS Outlook or Office also installed, now or ever?
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)