How can I import Windows Mail contact groups into Windows Live Mail?
I'm working in a small office where we have some computers running Windows Vista and using Windows Mail (version 6.0.6000.16388). We have hundreds of contacts and a couple of contact groups on these computer.
A few months ago we got two new computers which are using Windows XP and Windows Live mail (version 2009, build 14.0.8089.0726). Other computers in the office still have Vista and the other version of Windows Mail.
I have been able to export our hundreds of contacts and import them into Windows Live Mail so the new computers have all of the contacts... however I was unable to find a way to import the groups.
These groups are all very large and consist mostly/entirely out of contacts which don't have individual contact entries.
I have been googling to find a solution to this problem. The closest page I could find was this one:http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3818-windows-live-mail-import-vista-contacts-contact-groups.html
I was very discouraged when I saw the big red warning near the top of the page:
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In Contact Groups from Vista, only the contacts that are also included as normal Contacts will be imported into Windows Live Mail. Contacts that were created for the Contact Group only will not be imported into Windows Live Mail. You will need to write these down and manually add them back into Windows Live Mail.
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This pretty much described my situtation exactly, but manually going through all the groups, writing down all the contacts, then manually importing into two separate machines would take forever and is simply not an option.
Is there really no other way I can get these groups into Windows Live Mail?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!1 person needs an answerI do too
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- The big red warning line means exactly that.
WLM cannot import Groups.
You are back to square one.
t-4-2 - Lame.
How about this then....
I'm fully capable of writing my own program to do the conversion for me, but I would need to know the file format of both Windows Mail versions' group files. A quick peek at the Windows Mail .group files suggests they're either encrypted, compressed, or stored in a binary format -- and I can't even find the Windows Live Mail contacts/groups anywhere.
Is there anywhere I can go to find documentation on these file formats? Lame.
How about this then....
I'm fully capable of writing my own program to do the conversion for me, but I would need to know the file format of both Windows Mail versions' group files. A quick peek at the Windows Mail .group files suggests they're either encrypted, compressed, or stored in a binary format -- and I can't even find the Windows Live Mail contacts/groups anywhere.
Is there anywhere I can go to find documentation on these file formats?
Your query is beyond my capability. Sorry.
t-4-2
