problem with importing from Outlook to OE

External Since: Jan 30, 2008 Posts: 6

I have Outlook 2002 on XP and saved my contacts to a .csv file. When I
imported it into OE on Vista, most of the email addresses would not import
with the following error message: contact has a non-Internet e-mail address.
What does this mean? How can I fix it? I have over 500 contacts that I
need to import and I don't want to manually enter the email addresses if I
don't have to. Thanks.

External Since: Dec 28, 2007 Posts: 91

"Mary-K" <MaryK.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:30C741C1-2209-42FB-B66A-C79FE3881D26@microsoft.com...
>I have Outlook 2002 on XP and saved my contacts to a .csv file. When I
> imported it into OE on Vista, most of the email addresses would not import
> with the following error message: contact has a non-Internet e-mail
> address.
> What does this mean? How can I fix it? I have over 500 contacts that I
> need to import and I don't want to manually enter the email addresses if I
> don't have to. Thanks.

Outlook Express won't run under Vista. Its replacement is named Windows
Mail.

You have two choices: 1. Install Outlook, preferably version 2003 or
later,
under Vista. Version 2002 also runs under Vista, but with a few problems.
Windows Mail needs part of it to be able to handle files from Outlook.
A free trial version, if you can find one, will run more than long enough
to assist in the transfer. 2. Transfer the contacts from Outlook to
Outlook
Express on your old computer. Then transfer at least the .wab file to a
directory on your new computer, along with other files if you also want the
messages.

<http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/email/import-dbx-files-outlook-express-windows-mail-vista-86458.html>

<http://www.vista4beginners.com/Migrate-from-Outlook-Express-to-Windows-Mail>

After you transfer the files to your new computer, but before you import
them into Windows Mail, make sure the copies are read-write instead
of readonly.