How do I move contacts from home computer to laptop?

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Toni - 04 Oct 2005 15:56 GMT

I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 04 Oct 2005 22:31 GMT

I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities you
do have then. We can't just guess that.

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>I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
> contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?

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Toni - 04 Oct 2005 23:54 GMT

I'm sorry, I'm sort of a novice computer user. I have a floppy drive on my
home computer and a CD/DVD drive on my laptop. I understand that I have
networking capabilities through Windows XP to share files on both computers,
but I haven't run the networking wizard as yet.

> I'd suggest you tell us what networking or file transport capabilities you
> do have then. We can't just guess that.
> >I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
> > contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Oct 2005 02:10 GMT

So in essence a floppy is your only way to transfer data? That will be most
problematic. The best you can hope for is that the data in your Contacts
Folder will not exceed 1.4 MB. Your Outlook Data File most certainly will
exceed that, so you must create a second, empty Outlook Data File and copy
only your Contacts Folder into that. Close Outlook, then hope that second
PST file will fit on a floppy.
Copy that file onto your laptop, remove its read only attribute, open it in
Outlook and copy your Contacts from it.

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> I'm sorry, I'm sort of a novice computer user. I have a floppy drive on
> my
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>> >I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
>> > contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?

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Jorge Enrique Knull - 05 Oct 2005 03:07 GMT

Another way, if the file size is bigger that 1.44 is getting one of those
freeware that splits large files into smaller ones, and then, after copying
all of them in hte laptop, launch the .bat that puts them all together again
into one file.

If you had a netwoork at home then
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/comm/fwoutlook.html can help you

> So in essence a floppy is your only way to transfer data? That will be
> most problematic. The best you can hope for is that the data in your
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>>> >I don't have a CD burner on my home computer and want to move outlook
>>> > contacts folder to laptop. Any suggestions?

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