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PJR - 09 Nov 2006 20:49 GMT

I have an Intel iMac. I brought my email from Outlook Express 5 on my
old OS 9 iMac into Entourage on the Office 2004 Test Drive that came
with the Mac using these instructions (thanks!):
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac/brow
se_thread/thread/9035bf772ccfeb23/57663b3d6f607ef6?lnk=gst&q=intel&rnum=3#57663b
3d6f607ef6

That was ok for a week or so, but now I have moved Office X (yes, X,
not 2004) onto the Intel Mac and need to bring my email onto it. I
have exported my mail from the Test Drive of Entourage into archives.

I can't get Entourage on Office X to import these archives.
Entourage is not one of the options for import from a program. I tried
dragging the archive files onto the Entourage icon, but that didn't
work.

I tried getting Entourage X to import from my old Outlook Express 5
identities folder that I previously copied onto the Intel Mac's hard
drive, but Entourage X didn't recognize the Outlook Express folders.

Please Help, thanks.

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TG Online (MVP) - 16 Nov 2006 06:28 GMT

> I have an Intel iMac. I brought my email from Outlook Express 5 on my
> old OS 9 iMac into Entourage on the Office 2004 Test Drive that came
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>
> Please Help, thanks.

I'm not sure about this one, and I moved on from Office v.X to Office 2004 a
while ago, so I can't check this out for you.

I've posted your question across to microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage -
I'm sure one of the luminaries there will be able to come up with something.

Ricky

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Diane Ross - 17 Nov 2006 04:26 GMT

On 11/15/06 10:28 PM, in article C181B537.734C%tg.online@NOntlworldSPAM.com,

>> I have an Intel iMac. I brought my email from Outlook Express 5 on my
>> old OS 9 iMac into Entourage on the Office 2004 Test Drive that came
>> with the Mac using these instructions (thanks!):
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>> identities folder that I previously copied onto the Intel Mac's hard
>> drive, but Entourage X didn't recognize the Outlook Express folders.

The test drive was Office 2004. You cannot go backwards and import mail into
Entourage X.

You can import from an older version to a newer version.

> OE to Entourage 2001
> OE to Entourage X or Entourage 2004
> Entourage 2001 to Entourage X or Entourage 2004

You cannot import from a newer version to an older version. eg: Entourage X
to OE or Entourage 2001 using Entourage.

You cannot import from the same version of Entourage. eg: Entourage X to
Entourage X or Entourage 2001 to Entourage 2001. You can use the MBOX method
or the Export-Import Scripts
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/index.html#47857> to transfer
mail from one identity to another.

Export your contacts as a tab delimited file (option under File --> Export)
and import these into Entourage X.

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