Moving back to Mac Mail from Outlook for Mac 2011

hi there,

thanks alot for the tips and advice. it works well after i updated the office 🙂 ...

~kenny

@k317ny

Fantastic, I am glad it worked for you, some people still have problems and I can't always know why that is.

Cheers

Michael

Hi jwlfe,

i have just reached the same conclusion, in that i wish to use Mac Mail instead of MS Outlook 2011 for Mac. I have been reading through the various posts and came across yours.

I am interested in finding (after importing into Apple Mail archive) if the emails were filed in the corresponding sub-folders or whether you had to re-arrange once import completed.

I ask this because i have around 40,000 emails to Import and i am trying to find the best import solution.

Thanks

RJL

RJL,

Here is what I did. I followed the instructions I posted above. It is a bulk transfer and the folders will wind up like you had them in Outlook. They will fall into an import folder in Mac Mail. You will then need to move them into your hard drive on mac or to icloud. Doing this I found the following: Moving to your mac hard drive, no problem dragging the folder itself. Moving to Icloud, you need to make all new folders and then highlight the actual emails and move them to the new folder. This process took me a week. You will find that you need to move 10, 20 or 30 at a time. Some will get kicked back from Icloud (not sure why) but look at the ones that don't transfer and determine if they were really important to keep. I would then back up every so often to an external hard drive. I did this because I wanted my hard drive space. I hope this helps, keep in mind that I am not a tech guy, so if I could make it work I am sure you will be able to. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply.

I have managed to Import into Apple mail, albeit there are a few glitches here and there with the way it's imported.

Just running through all sub-folders and trying to arrange into some sort of sense.

Final question, I assume that once these have been imported into Apple Mail program it is safe to delete .OLM Files exported to Desktop from Outlook....? plus also to delete old MS Outlook File..? (I'm no Tech Guy either i'm afraid)

I reckon there must be around 30GB to delete.

RJL

I would back up the file that you converted. Better safe than sorry. I use a 2tb external.

Hi Michael,

I have just been reading through these posts and have tried to click the link you posted but it no longer works. I would really appreciate you re posting your directions to migrate emails from OL 2011 mac to mac mail.

Thanks

PI777

@PI777

The best way is to look at my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjPLohEz-2w

Success!

Hi There,

I just moved back to Mac Mail from Outlook 2011 by exporting to mbox and then importing into Mac Mail. My question - is there a way to transfer/export/import the Notes from Outlook 2011 to Mac Mail Notes?

Thanks!

Amyn

@avisram

Thank you. I never had a problem with this, because I used synch services in Outlook, so that my notes synched across to apple notes.

1. Open Outlook
2. Click on Outlook, top menu bar
3. Select preferences
4. Select Synch Services
5. Make sure Notes is ticked
6. And let the synch run
7. Your notes should go across to apple notes.
8. After completed, untick notes and prevent from further synching

Hope that works for you.

@stayingaliveuk

That worked - thanks!

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best of luck buddy 🙂

Michael, I realize that this is a long time ago, but any chance of reposting your instructions for migrating from Outlook to Mail? It seems to have helped many but goes to a dead-end link now. I'm recently suffering this dilemma, and couldn't access that link. Thanks for any help you can provide.

@SOMEarchitect.

I have uploaded the doc onto slideshare, here it is:

http://www.slideshare.net/stayingalive/moving-microsoft-outlook-for-mac-2011-to- mac-mail-v5

And I've done a video on it as well.

Moving Mail from Mac Outlook 2011 to M…

I did Michaels method, dragging the folders from Outlook in to a folder so an mbox file was created. But when importing in to Mail I would say 70% of my 30 000+ emails was corrupted, no subject or sender info, and the error message "this message is in mime format...". After some days with try and fail I purchased the software called Emailchemy which allows you to convert a .olm file to several options including Mail 2.x - 6.x. I did that and then imported the folders and all the mails was now 100%. it was simply a mather of creating folders in Mail with the same name and drag and drop my emails in to new Mail folders.

In my case I have emails saved from my PC days years back, not only Outlook for Mac, so for me there just wasn't any other way for me to keep all my mails saved but to do this option. If you have tried all other options I can highly recommend this software. It did the trick for me.

Good luck! :-)