del_icious_manager
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I have just realised the promise I made myself a long time ago and have finally dumped Bill Gates and his awful Windows platform. I am very happy with my newly-acquired Apple machine EXCEPT for one problem to which I can't seem to find a solution.
Because my Windows Office version of Microsoft Outlook crashed terminally over a year ago, I have been having to use the awful Outlook Express. Despite its Microsoft provenance, I find Entourage the most suitable e-mail client for my personal and business needs. Yes, I know it can crash and re-set itself like a new installation, but I'm doing daily backups. My problem is this:
I need to copy-over three years' worth of work e-mails currently stored in Outlook Express to Entourage 2008 for MAC. There seems to be a major incompatibility problem between the way the two pieces of software encode their e-mails. I have scoured the internet for a solution and I have tried the following:
1) I tried to export my Outlook Express files in some other format readable by Entourage (eg CRV or text files), but Outlook Express doesn't seem to allow files to be exported in anything other than its default format.
2) I found a 'fix' on the internet whereby you import the Outlook Express e-mails into Mozilla Thunderbird, then find the e-mails where they are stored and add a .mbox extension to the main mailbox files that aren't listed with an extension. You are then supposed to be able to transfer these files to the MAC desktop and drag them into Entourage to be imported. This didn't work as Entourage didn't recognise the 'fake' MBOX files.
Two fails and a lot of wasted time.
Can anyone help?
My machines are running Windows XP (with Outlook Express 6 - the software I want to export my e-mails FROM) and Mac OSX 10.5.8 (snow leopard)(with Entourage 2008 - the software I want to have my e-mails imported INTO).
Because my Windows Office version of Microsoft Outlook crashed terminally over a year ago, I have been having to use the awful Outlook Express. Despite its Microsoft provenance, I find Entourage the most suitable e-mail client for my personal and business needs. Yes, I know it can crash and re-set itself like a new installation, but I'm doing daily backups. My problem is this:
I need to copy-over three years' worth of work e-mails currently stored in Outlook Express to Entourage 2008 for MAC. There seems to be a major incompatibility problem between the way the two pieces of software encode their e-mails. I have scoured the internet for a solution and I have tried the following:
1) I tried to export my Outlook Express files in some other format readable by Entourage (eg CRV or text files), but Outlook Express doesn't seem to allow files to be exported in anything other than its default format.
2) I found a 'fix' on the internet whereby you import the Outlook Express e-mails into Mozilla Thunderbird, then find the e-mails where they are stored and add a .mbox extension to the main mailbox files that aren't listed with an extension. You are then supposed to be able to transfer these files to the MAC desktop and drag them into Entourage to be imported. This didn't work as Entourage didn't recognise the 'fake' MBOX files.
Two fails and a lot of wasted time.
Can anyone help?
My machines are running Windows XP (with Outlook Express 6 - the software I want to export my e-mails FROM) and Mac OSX 10.5.8 (snow leopard)(with Entourage 2008 - the software I want to have my e-mails imported INTO).