Quake3World

Having a problem with Outlook and the address book. I have Outlook on one computer and want to copy mail and addresses to laptop. I tried copying the .pst file into the location on the laptop and it loads the mail info and the address book info.

But, when I open Outlook and click new message and click on the "to" it says,

address book could not be displayed. Contacts folder associated with this addresslist could not be opened. It may have been moved or deleted.


Could someone here that uses Outlook please provide some help as to the best way to export and import OR is there a better way to do this.

XP home on both computers and office 2002.

The address book isn't in the PST.

Export your contacts on the first machine to business cards or CSV or such, then import on the second computer.

Actually the address book data is in the .pst file. I first tried the export and import of .csv file, but it didn't work.

I found the solution in the following link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319901

Not to start any flame wars or my-mail-client-is-better-than-yours threads, but this is why I like that Thunderbird and other mail clients store data in the plain-text mbox format (whereas Outlook stores it in one big-ass binary blob). If all else fails, you can still retrieve your data manually or with a quick Perl script. If there hadn't been a workaround for the problem corpse reported, he'd simply been screwed, no recourse.