Address Book

Post by **corpse** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:04 am

I got a friend that has an HP machine and was running windows ME. He went into his folders on ME and copied his address book. It is named:

backup address book - march 2004.wab

He wrote it to a cd to save and then he had windows 2000 installed. He then put the cd in the drive and opened Outlook Express and clicked on import, address book etc. but it said it couldn't import it.

Does it have to be ME [98] to recognize the file?

Post by **Bacon** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:24 am

I saw HP machine then windows ME

Post by **corpse** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:12 am

I was there and tried importing and it says error occurreed during import process and could not be completed.

When I double click on it to open it [the .wab file] it says,"the address book has been locked by another application. Please close the other application and try again.

What other app could be locking it and how do I know which one it is??

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:15 am

Bacon wrote:I saw HP machine then windows ME

this too, hit me like a ton of.....heavy things.

about your friend's OTHER problem, i have a hunch that he needs to create that exact same identity that he used to export the .wab file.

*edit* gah ya bastard!

open up task manager, perhaps you have to instances of outlook running?

Post by **corpse** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:20 am

I just tried in safe mode but got the same message.

In task manager, what will the outlook file be called....will it be called outllook..

I dont' see anything in there.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:21 am

click the "processes" tab and take a screenie.

Post by **raw** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:50 am

corpse wrote:I was there and tried importing and it says error occurreed during import process and could not be completed.

When I double click on it to open it [the .wab file] it says,"the address book has been locked by another application. Please close the other application and try again.

What other app could be locking it and how do I know which one it is??

It is marked as READ-ONLY on the CD since it is most likely burned on a CD-R. The R stands for READ ONLY since the disk cannot be overwritten.

Copy the file to the hard drive, right click and go to properties, uncheck "Read Only", click Apply, then Ok. Done.

Post by **raw** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:51 am

Windows probably needs to lock the file or may just need write or modify permissions to the file for the import utility to work.

Post by **corpse** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:21 am

raw wrote:
corpse wrote:I was there and tried importing and it says error occurreed during import process and could not be completed.

When I double click on it to open it [the .wab file] it says,"the address book has been locked by another application. Please close the other application and try again.

What other app could be locking it and how do I know which one it is??
It is marked as READ-ONLY on the CD since it is most likely burned on a CD-R. The R stands for READ ONLY since the disk cannot be overwritten.

Copy the file to the hard drive, right click and go to properties, uncheck "Read Only", click Apply, then Ok. Done.

This did it. Thanks and thanks to all who responded.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:28 am

Fuck that was funny.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:36 am

FragaGeddon wrote:Fuck that was funny.

indeed. i sometimes immediately go for the non-obvious answer :\

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:07 am

What a performance.

Post by **raw** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:24 am

Owned.