On Tuesday, November 5, 2002 at 1:14:34 AM UTC-8, Karl Timmermans wrote:

For those who may run into the same thing. Cause of the
problem with the specific file in question was due to the
fact that the CSV file was not created uniformly (i.e. not
all records had the same number of fields). When Outlook
imports the text files, it scans the first "n" of records (I
think it's 25) to ascertain field type. In this case,
starting with row 16 or so - there were substantially less
fields in the row - hence the problem. Opening it in Excel
and then importing it that way works since it obviously
doesn't do the same checking when reading the file
initially.

Karl

--
________________________________________________
Karl Timmermans
The Claxton Group
"ContactGenie Importer"
"the automated contact import robot for MS Outlook" http://www.contactgenie.com

"Carolyn Belknap" <belknaps@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dec801c28116$c5c04150$39ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA08...

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."

Thank you Karl you are a life saver!
Darcy Roy

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)