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Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / January 2006Transferring email identities and folders from Mac to PC
Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old email folders and identity from my old Mac Powerbook G3 OS 8.6, Microsoft Outlook Express v. 5.0.5, to my new PC laptop which runs Microsoft Outlook Express v. 6. Is this even possible? I have been able to transfer all files from my old identities folder on to the PC, but neither Outlook Express 6 nor Outlook 2003 on the PC seem to have the capability of importing these files, nor can I save these files in a different, more compatible format. What am I doing wrong? > Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old email > folders and identity from my old Mac Powerbook G3 OS 8.6, Microsoft Outlook [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I save these files in a different, more compatible format. What am I doing > wrong? Try method 1 here... <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tg.online/macfaq/articles/045.html> HTH, Ricky  SignatureIf you need to reply directly to me, just remove the capitalised letters from my faked e-mail address. Otherwise, please post back to the newsgroups. See Q048 on http://machelp.webhop.net/ for more details on protecting yourself from newsgroup spam. Ricky, I'm missing something somewhere. I've read your excellent document on backing up Outlook Express files several times, but I don't get one thing. I too am trying to move from Outlook Express 5.0.5 on Mac OS9.1 to Outlook Express 6 on a Windows XP box. On the Mac, I've captured all of the files in the Identities folder and I've moved them onto the PC. Problem is that I must have the extension wrong or something, because Outlook on the PC completely ignores the new files I copied there. I tried adding the .eml extension and I tried using a .dbx extension since some of the files already in the Identities folder on the PC used that extension, but to no avail. Do you have that one additional piece of the puzzle? Thanks very much for the assistance. Dan Hampton >> Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Ricky > Ricky, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Dan Hampton Hi again Dan, Did you export the individual e-mails from the Mac onto your Desktop (or other safe location) and then rename these with the .EML extension? If you did that, then transferring those files onto the PC should allow you to drag the same messages back into PC OE's Inbox. Simply saving the contents of the Identities folder from the Mac and transferring those files over to the PC won't work. HTH, Ricky SignatureIf you need to reply directly to me, just remove the capitalised letters from my faked e-mail address. Otherwise, please post back to the newsgroups. See Q048 on http://machelp.webhop.net/ for more details on protecting yourself from newsgroup spam. > Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old email > folders and identity from my old Mac Powerbook G3 OS 8.6, Microsoft Outlook [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I save these files in a different, more compatible format. What am I doing > wrong? Hi Jenn. One good method to do this, is to simply drag each single message to the desktop. There will appear a file with the name of the message and with the icon of an Outlook Express Mac 5.x message. It is important that, before you transfer these files to your new PC, you add the ".eml" extension to each one of them, since Windows won't recognize them as email messages otherwise. Once the files are onto the new PC's hard disk, you can just drag them to the email messages list on your OE 6 XP, and they will merge with the rest of the messages, just as if you had received them on that machine. If you prefer to transfer the files to Microsoft Outlook (not OE), there is a good tutorial on how to do so at http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/222. Hoping to have been helpful, Hernán > Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old > email folders and identity from my old Mac Powerbook G3 OS 8.6, Microsoft [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > can I save these files in a different, more compatible format. What am I > doing wrong? |
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