My OE address and other folders are exported to a known place which ensures
they are part of my usual regular back-up.

My contacts are (were!) grouped in subfolders e.g. by company name.

Recently I had cause to reinstall Windows. When I came to retrieve/restore
my address book I found that the folder structure had been lost. This has
happened before. I have not yet exported any modifications using the export
wizard in the hope that the folder structure might still be in the .wab
file.

= Can somebody tell me how to restore my contact list with its folder
structure?

I searched this NG to the extent I could (back to 17 Aug 08) but did not see
any relevant thread.

Thus any help would be gratefully received.

DAS

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Groups and folders do not export or import. There is this workaround.

Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express

Create a "standalone" WAB file:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe

Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB file
and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the Enter key to
OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that wab file to a
floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders and groups neither
import, nor export.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
...
My OE address and other folders are exported to a known place which
ensures
they are part of my usual regular back-up.

My contacts are (were!) grouped in subfolders e.g. by company name.

Recently I had cause to reinstall Windows. When I came to
retrieve/restore
my address book I found that the folder structure had been lost. This has
happened before. I have not yet exported any modifications using the
export
wizard in the hope that the folder structure might still be in the .wab
file.

= Can somebody tell me how to restore my contact list with its folder
structure?

I searched this NG to the extent I could (back to 17 Aug 08) but did not
see
any relevant thread.

Thus any help would be gratefully received.

DAS

To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---

Bruce

Your extremely quick reply is much appreciated. (I can see from other
threads that you are very diligent!)

The key comment is "folders and groups neither import, nor export."

I have to disagree to an extent as my groups did NOT get lost, to my great
surprise, though the (sub)folders did.

I'll follow up your suggestion but I am wondering if it would be better to
export everything to MS Outlook and work from there.

If I transfer to Outlook, could I retain all settings, i.e. flags and bold
'unread' status? And can one export and import e-mail address folders in
Outlook?

I have never used Outlook as I don't need the calendar/PIM function and I
thought I would save some overhead, but more recently somebody said that
Outlook does not add significant overhead.

Do you agree?

Thanks a lot.
DAS
--
To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Groups and folders do not export or import. There is this workaround.

Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express

Create a "standalone" WAB file:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe

Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB
file and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the Enter
key to OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that wab
file to a floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders and
groups neither import, nor export.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
...
My OE address and other folders are exported to a known place which
ensures
they are part of my usual regular back-up.

My contacts are (were!) grouped in subfolders e.g. by company name.

Recently I had cause to reinstall Windows. When I came to
retrieve/restore
my address book I found that the folder structure had been lost. This
has
happened before. I have not yet exported any modifications using the
export
wizard in the hope that the folder structure might still be in the .wab
file.

= Can somebody tell me how to restore my contact list with its folder
structure?

I searched this NG to the extent I could (back to 17 Aug 08) but did not
see
any relevant thread.

Thus any help would be gratefully received.

DAS

To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---

I have no MS Outlook experience. Sorry. If no one here can answer this
question, you can try an outlook newsgroup.

Outlook and Outlook Express are entirely different programs. You will get
better help in an MS Outlook newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...k.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ThirdPartyUtil
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
news
Bruce

Your extremely quick reply is much appreciated. (I can see from other
threads that you are very diligent!)

The key comment is "folders and groups neither import, nor export."

I have to disagree to an extent as my groups did NOT get lost, to my great
surprise, though the (sub)folders did.

I'll follow up your suggestion but I am wondering if it would be better to
export everything to MS Outlook and work from there.

If I transfer to Outlook, could I retain all settings, i.e. flags and bold
'unread' status? And can one export and import e-mail address folders in
Outlook?

I have never used Outlook as I don't need the calendar/PIM function and I
thought I would save some overhead, but more recently somebody said that
Outlook does not add significant overhead.

Do you agree?

Thanks a lot.
DAS
--
To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Groups and folders do not export or import. There is this workaround.

Courtesy of Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express

Create a "standalone" WAB file:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/wab.htm#wabexe

Then open your default address book to the group desired and select all
member of the group and copy them to the clipboard (Ctrl+A selects all,
Ctrl+C copies them to the clipboard). Then open your "standalone" WAB
file and paste the contacts into that file (you will have to hit the
Enter key to OK each entry but it beats typing) and then either copy that
wab file to a floppy disc or export it as CSV file. Otherwise, folders
and groups neither import, nor export.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
...
My OE address and other folders are exported to a known place which
ensures
they are part of my usual regular back-up.

My contacts are (were!) grouped in subfolders e.g. by company name.

Recently I had cause to reinstall Windows. When I came to
retrieve/restore
my address book I found that the folder structure had been lost. This
has
happened before. I have not yet exported any modifications using the
export
wizard in the hope that the folder structure might still be in the .wab
file.

= Can somebody tell me how to restore my contact list with its folder
structure?

I searched this NG to the extent I could (back to 17 Aug 08) but did not
see
any relevant thread.

Thus any help would be gratefully received.

DAS

To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
---