How can i mass add windows live contacts?

[MumboJumbo]

Hey my contacts all dissapeared today. No reasons, suposidly a common problem with windows live... lucky me!

But they emailed me back a list of all my contacts. But rthere is like 400 and they told me to manualy add them!

So is there anyway i can add them all? converting them into something? a bulk add to outlook some how and then over? Any ideas?

Cheers

 

[Pho]

Open the menu (press alt) and choose contacts > import ? As long as the file they sent you is in the following format, or you convert it yourself, it's all good:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messenger>
  <service name=".NET Messenger Service">
    <contactlist>
      <contact type="1">[email protected]</contact>
      <contact type="1">[email protected]</contact>
      <contact type="1">[email protected]</contact>
    </contactlist>
  </service> 
</messenger>

 

[MumboJumbo]

They have just sent me an email with them listed :/

This is gona take a long time isn't it

 

[Pho]

Is it one email per line?

 

[MumboJumbo]

Is it one email per line?

Yeah i have two collums in this format:

Quickname Primary E-mail Address
xxxxxxxxxxx [email protected]
yyyyyyyyyyyyy [email protected]
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz [email protected]

 

[Pho]

I wrote a quick little parser for it. Give it a try: [let me know if you want it back]

I'm not saving any of the form information so don't worry, your emails are safe. Save it as a .ctt file and give it a try.

edit: don't paste the header line, just the name/emails bit.

 

[MumboJumbo]

ah man cheers!!! what a nice guy

Ok i ran it by puttig both quicknames and primary in and now i have a file in the form ud orginaly posted. What do i do with this file?

:EDIt:

o you said import it, mmm ok. where is this import option/ its not in windows live options.

 

[J.B]

Press Alt, Contacts>Bottom option is import contaccs

 

[Pho]

As above:

 

[MumboJumbo]

Ah yeah, i shoulda known that. Cheers mate.