How to import Live Mail contacts to Outlook?

Gordon

1 year ago

If you already completed the Live Mail to Outlook emails conversion, you may want to import Live Mail contacts as well. In this article we will describe the main method of the Live Mail address book export and contacts conversion to Outlook PST file. First you should export Live Mail contacts to VCF files, it can be done from Windows Address Book if your Live Mail is broken and can not be launched or from the Live Mail itself.

Do the following to export Live Mail contacts:

Run Live Mail and choose Contacts menu or press Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut
In the main menu (Ctrl+M) select Export > Business Card (.VCF)
Select the location (empty directory) where exported Live Mail contact files should be saved
Click OK button
Select contact fields you want to include and save your contacts if such dialow will appear.

Now Address Book is saved into virtual contact files (.VCF) and you have everything necessary to import Live Mail contacts to Outlook.

How to import Live Mail vCard contacts to Outlook?

TIP: You may read this instruction instead…

* - The unregistered version converts a limited number of contacts

Download, install and run vCard to Outlook conversion tool
Specify the source directory where you .VCF files were saved (see the step #3 above)
Press Scan Folder button and wait for the search to be done
Use menu Mode to select Save to PST if your Outlook profile type is “online”
(Online Outlook profile – IMAP or Exchange Server account which stores data at the server side)
Press Save PST button and specify the PST file name
Select the Outlook profile if prompted and the Outlook contacts folder to be used as target and continue the conversion
When conversion will be finished you may open PST file with your contacts in Microsoft Outlook using menu File > Open > Open Outlook Data File… and organize imported contacts manually i.e. create contact groups, move contacts etc.

* - The unregistered version converts a limited number of contacts

As you see the Live Mail address book to outlook conversion is simple, but requires some manual steps at the beginning, however this guarantee that no one contact record will be lost or forgotten.