1. Download the following update, saving it to your hard-drive:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...2-98af2256ccc3

2. Close all running applications including Outlook Express and Address
Book.

3. Double-click on the saved file to install it & reboot.

Now try opening the Address Book by double clicking it and see if you can
export the contents as a CSV (Text) file which should import into any
address book. And you can create a new address book by using the Start/Run
line and type: WAB /a

However that new address book will not be recognized in Outlook Express
until you make a registry edit at this key pointing to the new WAB file at
its new location:

Close OE and the address book. Run regedit.exe and navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name

Right-click on (Default) in the right-hand pane and enter your new path to
the *.wab file. Close Regedit and open OE to use the new *.wab immediately.

The new wab file should import w/o problem from the saved CSV (Text) file.
Post back if you continue to have problems.

--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Scotty23" wrote in message
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Hi Jim,

It happened after one of those "multiple update" downloads. I didn't
notice
the import problem for a week or two after the update. That was the only
thing that changed on my computer during that time. I cannot tell you
what
update may (or may not) have caused this to happen.

I've got multiple copies of wab32.dll. Version under "common
files\system"
is 6.0.2900.2869; version under "service pack files" is 6.0.2900.2180. I
also have wab32.dll files in $ntservicepack directory.


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Thanks From Scotty23


"Jim Pickering" wrote:

What update?

Operating system in use? File version number shown in Properties for
wab32.dll ? Is Outlook also installed on this computer and are you
sharing
Contacts with that program?
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Scotty23" wrote in message
...
After uploading an update, my Address Book dumped. I have a back up,
but
get
an error message that the import did not happen. I don't believe my
.wab
file is NOT corrupted as I have two copies on two different media. Can
anyone help?
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Thanks From Scotty23