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Dec 31, 2011 3:17 AM in response to bigatomby Roagui,OMG.. i got a new mac for xmas and the whole migration was making me crazy.. i was looking everywhere to find a information to migrate my Outlook from pc to mac and once i did it and found out it wont synk with my iphone i was so mad so i started looking for a way to migrate (once again) to the famous "Mac Mail" and google doesnt help much.. most of the results were about paid software! Pfffff
so i went simple and started to experiment with outlook
AND.......I just got the solution to this problem..
*******this is only for the storaged emails
....and is so simple that you're going to laugh about it (hope you didnt bought any software to do it for you)
okay.. here we gostep 1 / open your Outlook Mac 2011
step 2 / on the desktop make a new folder and call it what ever you want.. (i called mine outlook backup)
step3 / back in outlook ... just press and hold on any folder you have (inbox or else) and drag it to the folder on the desktop you just created! (is that it????... well, we're almost done).. this will create a mbox file with the name of your folder in outlook like inbox.mbox
AMAZED YET?
( i have like 45 different folders inside outlook, so the drag and drop took quite a while for me to finish )
by the end i had a backup full of .mbox files
any folder inside outlook can be dragged into the desktop backup folder and will be transformed into MBOX
now the fun part...
step 4 / Open Mac Mail
step 5 / go to File / Import Mailboxes and select the "Files in mbox format" and click "Continue"
step 6 / select all the mbox files you just created from the desktop folder and Click "Choose"
Wait a little till its done....
AND VOILA!!!
You will find a new folder called Import will all your Old and loved folder from Outlook containing all your precious emails!
you can drag folder into place and restore the old order you had before, drag all the INBOX content into the actual mac mail Inbox and you're set, just set up your old email accounts back in mac mail and youre done!
ENJOY!!!!!!!
Very Important:
* all folders must drag and drop separtly from outlook, if you have folders containing other folders you must drag them one by one!
seems like theres a new update from microsoft that lets you synk all your contacts with the address book.. (not sure, but will keep looking)
*All messages will appear as Unread on macmail!.. so just apply the "read" to all of them
Well.. i hope this will help you!
Greets
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Jan 3, 2012 4:53 AM in response to JChp53by 社長,This was indeed the right answer! Thank you for the easy solution! I had been googling for this and kept getting results about paid software.
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Jan 3, 2012 5:14 AM in response to Roaguiby Csound1,Roagui wrote:
AMAZED YET?
Not significantly, but thanks for posting this again.
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Jan 6, 2012 8:46 AM in response to bigatomby TGDr-aka-RG,Ah, Microsoft... My Outlook database has corrupted 7 times in the last 2 months, the time before last it was unrepairable! Years of emails gone forever! So I've moved (permanently!) back to Mail, it works fine, and it's also used by the App that I use for producing HTML emails (Mail Designer). I just dragged each folder out of Outlook onto the desktop, then imported into Mail in mbox format (as mention earlier in the forum).
The main reason I'm posting this is that I know at least 6 other Outlook users who've lost considerable amounts of data because of the unreliable nature of Outlook - I'd advise a sharpish sidestep back to Apple Mail...
Be warned!
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Jan 9, 2012 9:34 AM in response to TGDr-aka-RGby TxGolfer,While I prefer to use Mail, I was thinking about going back to Outlook.....
I cannot seem to get iCal working with the exchange. I can accept an invitation (in Mail) and it will show up in my iPhone and my iPad but it will not show up on my MBPro?? I have called in twice to apple to no avail.
I read numberous articles about Lion and iCal issues but all say that 10.7.2 fixed it. Mine is not fixed!! Although I prefer Mail, if I can't get my calendars to sync, I will not be able to use it.
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Jan 11, 2012 1:15 PM in response to alisonfromnewmarketby claude51,Excellent! This method worked like a charm even with very large mailboxes - but it takes some time to complete.
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Jan 11, 2012 1:25 PM in response to TxGolferby Csound1,TxGolfer wrote:
While I prefer to use Mail, I was thinking about going back to Outlook.....
I cannot seem to get iCal working with the exchange. I can accept an invitation (in Mail) and it will show up in my iPhone and my iPad but it will not show up on my MBPro?? I have called in twice to apple to no avail.
I read numberous articles about Lion and iCal issues but all say that 10.7.2 fixed it. Mine is not fixed!! Although I prefer Mail, if I can't get my calendars to sync, I will not be able to use it.
What version of Exchange?
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Jan 12, 2012 8:16 AM in response to TxGolferby Csound1,TxGolfer wrote:
2011 for Mac
That is the version of Outlook you are running, what version of exchange are you connecting to?
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Jan 12, 2012 9:19 AM in response to Csound1by claude51,In regards to the migration of mailboxes from Outlook 2011 to Mail 5.1 (both programs being up to date Jan 2012) by dragging the mailboxes in Outlook to the desktop (which converts them into mbox files) then importing these mbox files into Mail using the "import mailbox" menu item under the File menu.
Our institutional server uses Exchange 2010. So far, my transition from Outlook to Mail has been without any problems - nothing lost, dates in old e-mails has remained as they were on Outlook. Old attachments were also conserved (as long as they remained on my computer, of course). The only small problem is that exported e-mail are all marked as "unread". A couple of mailboxes had more than 7000 e-mails: those took a few minutes to convert into mbox files even in a 2011 MacBook Pro. I batch converted most of the smaller mailboxes by selecting them as a group. Mail did close once while importing the largest mbox file but completed it on a second try - not sure what happened; I may have switched programs while the operation was taking place and also having too many programs running at the same time I was doing the import. I'll update later if problems crop up.
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Jan 12, 2012 7:19 PM in response to Csound1by TxGolfer,I have no idea. I am located in Tx, they are in San Jose.
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Jan 12, 2012 7:20 PM in response to claude51by TxGolfer,Claude51,
Its not Outlook to Mail that is the issue but Mail to Outlook.
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Jan 21, 2012 3:28 AM in response to JChp53by volkerfromerlinsbach,Thank you for your describtion of a working process, I just went to try it, unfortunetely my Outlook 2011 do not let me drag any folders to the desktop or a folder on the desktop... Am I doing something wrong?
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Jan 21, 2012 12:09 PM in response to volkerfromerlinsbachby claude51,I don't know... Only thing I can think of is that I am running OSX 10.7.2 and the latest version of Outlook.
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