importing contacts from WLM in win XP to win 8

[robmar0se]

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?

 

[robmar0se]

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.