Moving back to Mac Mail from Outlook for Mac 2011

allaboutbjp wrote

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. I have also tried the demo for Emailchemy which seems to work but just wondering if there is a free option before purchasing.

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There are free options, and then there are ones that work.

Emailchemy is not free.

Hi Sarah

Thanks for your message and comments. The issue you describe has not happened to me. One thing you may wish to check is that your Outlook for Mac 2011 is the latest version. I know that others have had issues when they were not using the latest version. So please check if there are any updates that you have not yet run. If you are using the latest version, then I am sorry, I have no solution for that.

Kind regards

Michael

@stayingaliveuk

Hi Michael and everyone

I watched your video and also tried your steps. My problem is that I cannot drag my folders from Outlook for Mac into the desctop folder called Outlook Mail. I can drag individual emails but not the folders. How did you manage to drag the folders - is there a trick to it?

Thanks 🙂 for your help please !

Hi

One thing that you have to check is that you have the latest version of outlook. Other people had the same issue but after they did software update, it worked for them. Hope it works for you too. Success!

Michael

@stayingaliveuk

Hi Michael

thank you

I will let you know if it worked.

Cheers

Marcela

Just further to the issue of "sent" items not transferring using Michael's method as mentioned by jwlfe and DekoKards, just to confirm that this problem is happening to me despite fact I do have the latest version of Outlook for Mac. Also, I have checked that the lost email are not part of the one string as Michael suggested could be the case. I did try transferring these sent email individually and they would not go, so not sure what is peculiar about these various sent items that means they don't transfer.

Finally - my sincere apologies to jwlfe for highlighting jwlfe's use of the word "commonality" as if I was trying to correct his/her spelling to "commonility". In fact just a slip of the key on my part. I was highlighting the word coz it was a good choice of word. There you go!!

No sweat sor67. I did not even pick up on that. I would like to find a solution for the sent e-mail problem. I have contacted Apple and even visited with their stores to no avail. THat is the last item that keeps me from making the switch over to Mac mail. It will be a great day when someone smarter than me can post the solution!

Hi Michael,

Could you please repost your iWorks document as it seems to have been moved/archived? Appreciate your effort!

Hello

Of course iworks has now finished. Best thing is to watch the video. I am away from my desk until 13th August and will not be able to make the doc available online until then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjPLohEz-2w

Michael,

Your method works very well to transfer but almost every message transferred has excess header info and in many cases has become pure gibberish. I am concerned this is a rich text, plain text, html issue. does anyone have a cure? I paste a section of an email below to demonstrate the problem:

for lunch? If so, let us know what would be good for you. Please forward this

to Owen and have him join the lunch as well.<BR>&gt; &gt; Thanks,<BR>&gt; &gt;

Mark<BR>&gt; &gt; <BR>&gt; &gt; Sent from my

iPhone<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>=</FONT></DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV> </DIV>

<DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>bJoG3uS0EruzPcfRS6ZhvN1yUH0Mwx4fmx `_3™¨Ï,–Content-type: multipart/alternative;

boundary="B_3426792218_199955"

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand

this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

--B_3426792218_199955

Content-type: text/plain;

charset="US-ASCII"

Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

I see the MIME comment, but not sure how to deal with.

hi, just read this thread..

currently i'm using a snow leopard with outlook 2011, i have tried to drag and drop the folder..but nothing happen. Could it because i'm not using lion? or i need to update my outlook?

i'm a bit frustated over here

thanks alot,

~kenny

Hi Kenny

When I did the move across to mail, I was using snow leopard, so it should work for you. Yes do check if there are any updates for office, as I know you do need to use the latest software. However, I did this some time ago and it may be possible that outlook may have changed their software by now to disallow the move? It wouldn't surprise me if they did something like this, so please take care. Do a few trials instead of doing everything to make sure it works properly.

Success.

Michael

Thank you for your message. I have been out of town, so sorry for the slow response. I haven't had the problem you describe and it's beyond my technical knowledge. Please make sure you have the latest outlook software and try again. It should work, but of course apple and ms are always updating their software and it's possible that things have moved on since I did the move.

Hope you can get it to work.

Success

Michael

hi,

currently i am using snow leopard too... i checked my office update, and it turns out that my ms office need to be updated. Hopefully all of this can work after finish update the office.

thanks a lot for the reply 🙂

regards,

~kenny

I posted the question here of how to get my mails back into mac mail from outlook for mac. Every technique I tried had an issue. Missing mail, excess header, no content, etc. Had given up and resigned myself to outlook. I downloaded the new mountain lion last week. Also stumbled across a download from the app store. OLM is a program that costs $38. Pricey it is. However, I ran the program (the way I thought it made sense) and it only migrated 1/3 of the mails. I contacted support by e-mail and got a response within 5 hours (on a saturday!!). Migrated 32,800 emails. Obviously i have not checked all of them one by one, however, the ones I have checked are perfect. Attachements and all! Highly recommend it. I don't normally post praise like this but I hae been working this problem for more than a year and am happy to have found a product that works and support that gets it.

Here is the process as their support explained it to me:

Export emails from Outlook. Simply follow procedure. File..Export..Make sure you mark to not delete e-mails from Outlook until you are sure the process worked. The e-mails will be stored in an .olm format. With the OLM converter, you will add olm files and then select "convert to" and "apple mail archive". Once this is done you go to mac mail and select file..import mailboxes...apple mail and then find your "apple mail archive". DONE!!

Hope it works for you.