Migrating from Entourage to Mail and Address Book

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Migrating from Entourage to Mail and Address Book

Hi

I am currently trying to figure out a smart/safe way to move from Entourage to Apple Mail.

_Address Book_

All address book items in Entourage were synched with Address Book.

_Address Book question_

If I unselect the option to synch Entourage with Address Book, will everything remain in Address Book, or will they be deleted, when I trash the data in Entourage?

Mail

I have no idea how to import my email accounts and folders (I only have 3 emails in my Inbox - the rest is stored in folders located under the Inbox) currently located in Entourage into Mail.

_Mail question_

Any clues as to how to do that?

Also, once this is done, how can I disable Entourage for mail, synch, etc.

Many thanks for your thoughts and responses.

Dominique =)

MacBook - Black 2GB, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 5:13 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 19, 2008 5:23 PM in response to dominique.joseph

After you sync with Address Book, and you uncheck the Sync in Entourage, they will not be deleted from Address Book.

For email, open Apple Mail, File Menu, Import Mailboxes..., then choose Entourage.

Or you can drag each folder from Entourage onto your drive, which makes a ".mbox" file which is compatible with many different mail programs. You can import those into Apple Mail (or into Thunderbird, or into Outlook Express, etc.).

You can also use a Gmail account, using IMAP (not POP), and drag'n'drop the emails from Entourage into that, then connect to it from Apple Mail and have them back.

Killing off Entourage is harder. Assuming you don't want to uninstall Office, you'll at least need to go to System Prefs, Accounts, and delete the Login Item for the Microsoft Database. I'm not sure what other steps may be necessary.

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Answer 2

Feb 20, 2008 2:56 AM in response to Skeuomorph

great =)

thank you very much.

indeed, i don't want to get rid of Office. i just will not be using entourage anymore.

have a nice day. dominique =)

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