Outlook Messages and Addresses to Mac Mail

[cjs]

I know this has been covered before however I cant find the info when searching.

I am now using Mail on my newish Macbook and all is working well. I still have my HD from my old dead Dell which has all my old programs including Outlook and all my old Messages and addresses. This is now in an enclosure and acting as an External Drive.

So how do I locate all the info on the External HD and get it into Mail?

I have Boot Camp setup with XP on the Partition, can I get Outlook/Office back up and running off my Ex HD? I can see it in program files.

I also have Mac Office Entourage on the Mac.

Any Ideas??

Chris.

[Zod]

there's this website called Google. You type what you want to know into a box and it gives you lots of possible answers:

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something odd has happended to my link, but it seems to work.

Edited by Zod on Wednesday 30th May 10:03

[cjs]

Zod said:

there's this website called Google. You type what you want to know into a box and it gives you lots of possible answers:

fficial' target='_blank'>click here



something odd has happended to my link, but it seems to work.

Edited by Zod on Wednesday 30th May 10:03

Thanks for your "Help"

I need to get the files in to Mac 'Mail' off an old HD so I am looking for solutions for this.

PS. I know we can Google anything and get answers, not always the right ones though. Thats why I am asking on here. The Forums may as well be shut down if we are going to Google everything.

Edited by cjs on Wednesday 30th May 11:34

[tog]

The first hit on that Google link gives you most of the answer. Follow those instructions to import the mail to Entourage on the Mac, then just use the File>Import Mailboxes menu in Apple Mail to get them from Entourage to Mail.

Or a quick search on www.macosxhints.com (a great site for finding things like this) throws up this hint, which is quite old but has more recent comments at the bottom which show a couple of different small applications that will automate the process of making .mbox files from Outlook.

[Leithen]

Head over to the Apple website - Search in Support for tech docs, look in Support>Discussions , search there and if still no answer, post a cry for help.

[cjs]

If I can get my old Outlook/office program back up and running which is on my old HD I can probabley sort my problems....thing is how do I do it? I can find Office in the Program files but cant see how to restore it to my XP partition on the Mac.

To clarify I have the complete HD from my old Dell in an external Caddy, so its now an external USB HD.

[Zod]

cjs said:

If I can get my old Outlook/office program back up and running which is on my old HD I can probabley sort my problems....thing is how do I do it? I can find Office in the Program files but cant see how to restore it to my XP partition on the Mac.

To clarify I have the complete HD from my old Dell in an external Caddy, so its now an external USB HD.

I wasn't actually being facetious (not much anyway). The pst file you need is in Documents and Settings\yourusername\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Use the info from the first linked page in Google and you will get what you want.

Edited by Zod on Thursday 31st May 23:45