Quake3World

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?

I saw HP machine then windows ME

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??

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?

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.

click the "processes" tab and take a screenie.

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.

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.

Fuck that was funny.

FragaGeddon wrote:Fuck that was funny.

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

What a performance.