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by borg7of9

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I am moving workstations around, and I need to import outlook express 5.5 from one workstation, to Outlook 2000 on another workstation. I copied from outlook express, all address book .wab and all the dbx, mbx, idx and folder.nch to a network drive. Then on the new workstation I set up outlook 2000, when I go to import, it does not let me specify location, and therefore finds an old outlook express set up locally and import that data instead of the data I want. Any idea how to get around this?

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by kdrungilas

The best thing to do is to actually use Outlook Express 5.5 export features to export the mail items before the move.
On the File menu, point to Export, and then click Messages.
In the Choose Profile dialog box, choose the profile name that bestmatches the Microsoft program to which you are exporting.
To export all the messages, click All Folders.
To export messages in one or more folders, click Selected Folders. Then, select the folders you want to export.

You can also use the Export feature for the address book. Both the Address book export and the Messages export will allow the files to be imported into Outlook 2000 very easily.

by borg7of9

I have tried exporting the Wab file (address book and then imorting that file into outlook express and it just will not work!!!

by jboardman

Copy your files into that same directory with the old version and it will probably recognize them and import from there.

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