OK here's how it works as I understand the process. What I am doing is placing all of my contacts in the shared address book, as such making it available to all of the various identities I have configured on this system. My plan is to keep the individual address books empty so when I wish to backup my contact list there is only a single address book file to worry about. Here's how that's accomplished in case anybody is interested.
1 Open up your address book and focus on the current identities contact list. 2 Select all of the contacts listed there and copy them to the clipboard. 3 Tab one time and arrow up to shared contacts. 4 Tab over twice to the listing and paste the contents of your clipboard right there. 5 You will need to hit enter on every entry that is being pasted in the new location, kind of like an approval process sort of thing. The export process is as follows: 1 Open up the address book in what ever identity you happen to be in at the time. In my case it doesn't matter since everything is now going in to shared contacts. 2 Tab over until you hear the name of the current identities address book and arrow up one time to shared. 3 Open up the file menu and pick export. 4 Hit enter on the first choice which is WAB files. 5 Give your backup a name for example address book. 6 Hit enter and follow the prompts. You're done. Restoring is done as follows:I must point out it's a little tricky so pay close attention please. 1 Open up your address book with control+shift+b. 2 It doesn't matter if you're focused on shared contacts or not because when ever you import an address book file it seems to always go in the current identities' contact list. So open up the file menu and hit import. 3 Hit enter on WAB file and browse to select your file of choice. 4 Finish the import process which uses a standard dialog box interface. You're done. David Ferrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "rcham27" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Transferring addresses I am very confused. The process I use is to go to the identity with the address book and click on export. Then select address book. Then select the text file option. Then type in the edit field,"address book". Then click on next until the "finish"command. After all of that, I go back to the "main" identity and go to file and click on import. When it asks for the file name, I type in Address book. The next tab says WAB file Then I tab and the next thing says "open". I click on that and nothing happens. I must be missing a couple of steps. Can I just Copy and paste the address book somehow? Thanks again. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Transferring addresses >I export as a WAB file myself. In fact I did the export and import process >a > little over an hour ago testing the information that came across here > earlier today regarding shared contacts. Try using that format and see if > your results are any different. > David Ferrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "rcham27" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:52 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Transferring addresses > > > Yes, David. > > When importing, I am prompted to edit the file and I try to use the same > name I saved it in, but the import says that there is no file of that > name. > I was told to export in text format. > > Thank you again. > > Rich > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:02 AM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Transferring addresses > > >> So if I understand you correctly exporting from identity 1 and importing >> to >> identity 2 did not work, that's the correct procedure. Now I will admit >> I'm >> not an expert on this particular topic unfortunately. Actually I am going >> to >> work on it this week though as recent events have prompted me to become >> more >> diligent in this area. >> David Ferrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rich Hamel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:00 AM >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Transferring addresses >> >> >> Hi guys; >> I have XP and JAWS 6.0. >> I had to change modems and when I did, my O.E. lost its address book. >> For some reason, I have 2 identities in O.E. in one of my identities, I >> have >> all of the contacts. >> >> My question is; is there an easy way to transfer my contacts to the main >> identity? >> >> I tried exporting then importing, but this didn't work. >> >> Thank you for any help. >> >> Rich >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or >> body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php
