Hi, I'm converting a friend's system from Windows XP to a brand-new MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion. Migration Assistant seems to handle all WIndows files & folders, but is ambiguous about Outlook folders. Will it convert all his history, or just his current Inbox and identitay? Do I need to run something like 8Convert or O2M Little Machines to get his historical folders from the Windows machine to his new Mac?
See "What gets transferred, and to where?" > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
If you have a IMAP account, Migration Assistant will transfer just the account information, because a IMAP account stores mails in the server, not on the Mac or PC.
Theoretically, if you have a POP account, Migration Assistant should transfer everything you have related to your POP account (including all your mailboxes and mails) to Mail app, and they are automatically converted to use them with Mail
Thanks Mende1, my friend's main email account is a POP, but he uses Gmail (IMAP) also. I'll run the migration tomorrow and report back to you.
You are welcome
Hi Mende1, Migration Assistant didn't do a good job of migrating Outlook folders to Mail. All the emails seemed to be in one big Inbox, and many thousands that were archived also got dragged over. My friend is not happy, so I will investigate doing the migration using Thunderbird as an intermediary step (to get the .pst files into mbox format) and then import from Thunderbird into Mail.
Wow. I don't know why, but Migration Assistant often fails. However, I'm not completely sure if that's the normal behaviour of Migration Assistant with mailboxes migrated from Outlook (I doubt it)
If your friend prefers to use Outlook instead, then just have them buy Office for Mac 2011 with Outlook in it and then just grab the old PST file off their old system and simply import it into the new Outlook for Mac. Once you've done that, you'll just have to do some minor moving around of the folders from the Imported area to the main mailbox area. The rest of the structure/contents all stay the same.
Does Migration Assistant convert Outlook folders to Apple Mail?
