Due to some or the other reason, time may come where you might need to transfer your entire email address book from one PC to another PC. The first thought that must have come to your mind is re-type entire address book and other important email data and save them separately in the new system. But thankfully, we have an easy way out through which we can transfer all the Outlook data from one system to another.
In this blog I will provide you with step by step procedures to transfer your Personal Address Book (PAB) from one computer to another.
If you have a properly installed and configured MS Outlook on your system, then you have a default Outlook Address Book. This Outlook Address Book, generally known as OAB, has the sets of Outlook contact folders in it. Now you might be thinking that OAB is a physical address book, which it is not. It is a basically a virtual concept, and hence OAB is just a representation of the primary contact folders.
The OAB has a personalized view of the contact folders and nothing more and therefore, it cannot operate independently. Another fact about OAB is that Outlook does not save any OAB file which is not in your data store.
Now, when we know all about Outlook Address Book, let’s come to the focus point and discuss how to transfer Outlook Address Book from one system to another.
To transfer Outlook Address Book from one system to another, copying the file is the best option. So, the first approach that you should try in this case is copying the contact file with .pab extension. Let’s see how to it:
Restoring the file to another system is again a good approach to transfer OAB. Let’s know how to do it:
Once, you complete the above-mentioned steps successfully, you will have the OAB file n your system. So, this was about transferring the OAB file, but if you are facing issues with Outlook PST like damage or corruption, then you can refer to Kernel for Outlook PST Repair. It is an automated tool that can repair, recover and restore damaged PSTs in a few easy steps.
Transferring an address book from one system to another in Outlook is quite an easy task. All you need is to carefully use the import and export option for transferring. At first, the address book is exported as a CSV file and then the file is imported to the new email program. Hope this blog helped you to successfully transfer OAB.
Nice clear procedure. Though I have struggled swapping everything from old to new lap top, getting Outlook contacts went well. Thank you.
Worked perfectly! Very easy, step by step instructions!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
Excellent very precise instructions. I exported my contacts to my new laptop with success.
I liked the way this blog is focused only on the solution of one’s query; meanwhile, it is also educating the reader about OAB. It helped me well. Thanks!
Just outstanding and very helpful, Outlook makes things far to complicated and this article was so good I breezed right through it. Thanks for your effort to benefit us all..