importing contacts from WLM in win XP to win 8

I have tried exporting the contacts in WLM in win XP using CSV format and importing into WLM in win 8. The result was a real mess, missing data, sometimes 3 entries made for the same contact, it was horrendous. There should be a better way to transfer from one DBstore to another, in the same way one can transfer PST files in Outlook.

as anyone got any better suggestions?

PS I have tried copying the DBstore over by replacing the folder, the result is no contacts; I guess the file in XP is somehow different to that expected by win 8?

Importing CSV files into WLM in win8 problem

The issue of restoring the dbstore for WLM (especially when dealing with a system rebuild) remains; specifically when dealing with email other than hotmail/livemail etc.

However I have found the error in the CSV export/import. The export from XP to a CSV file was fine, looked at it in Excel and was formatted correctly. The problem was in the import; the WLM Import in Win 8 ignored the email address field, and hence caused the corruptions. I repeated the process this time prior to importing I revised the import commands to explicitly add the email address field.

I post this here for the benefit of others - the moral is check the import parameters, don't assume.