On Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 2:50:32 PM UTC-5, Carolyn Belknap wrote:

Trying to import a CSV file into Contacts. I am running
Outlook 2002 (Service Pack 2) on Windows XP. Using the
Import/Export Wizard, I get the following error and can't
get past this. Has anyone else run into this?

"Translation Error. A file error has occurred in the
Comma Separated Values (Windows) translator while
initializing a translator to build a field map.

The file ".yahoo_ab.csv" was not recognized. The
Separated Values (Windows) translator was unable to
recognize this file. It could be the wrong file, a
version of the file type which is not supported by this
translator, or the file might be corrupt."

It work for me when I just cleaned up the fields in excel csv that aren't used or only one contact used them...once I cleaned it up, i was able to change the file name and re-save it. If it doesn't let you, try renaming the file so you don't get the
error at the top "possible data loss" Once you have a clean .csv file, you should be able to import...and this is for the most recent version of MS Outlook 365 as of 3/17/2019

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On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:48:13 PM UTC+6, njde...@gmail.com wrote:

It work for me when I just cleaned up the fields in excel csv that aren't used or only one contact used them...once I cleaned it up, i was able to change the file name and re-save it. If it doesn't let you, try renaming the file so you don't get the

error at the top "possible data loss" Once you have a clean .csv file, you should be able to import...and this is for the most recent version of MS Outlook 365 as of 3/17/2019


Thanks. It worked for me. I am using MS Outlook 2010.

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What I did was, I opened the csv file in Excel and eliminated the enumerated spaces by filling them with information that wasn't there previously. Basically added to the place where there was no name in the numbered slot in excel. It worked after the
fields were in order

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On Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 2:50:32 PM UTC-5, Carolyn Belknap wrote:

Trying to import a CSV file into Contacts. I am running
Outlook 2002 (Service Pack 2) on Windows XP. Using the
Import/Export Wizard, I get the following error and can't
get past this. Has anyone else run into this?

"Translation Error. A file error has occurred in the
Comma Separated Values (Windows) translator while
initializing a translator to build a field map.

The file ".yahoo_ab.csv" was not recognized. The
Separated Values (Windows) translator was unable to
recognize this file. It could be the wrong file, a
version of the file type which is not supported by this
translator, or the file might be corrupt."

saving the original csv file then open in Excel and then save as a workbook csv file, then import into outlook worked for me..

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I had the same problem, my problem was that the first contact on my list started with a non-standard character (a quotation mark). I deleted that line and then it imported fine.

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