Importing emails to Entourage 11.4.0 on a Mac 10.5.2 from Outlook

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James_Tree

I have been recently converted to a Mac, and have been running MS Outlook on PCs for years. I need to import my old email files into Entourage and have had no joy at all. I have the "pst" file, I have even successfully copied the "pst" Outlook file into Outlook Express, but if that's the way, how do I then import the resulting "dmg" files into Entourage? I do not run Exchange Server on the PC, just MS Office Professional. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, James
 
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Diane Ross

I have been recently converted to a Mac, and have been running MS Outlook on
PCs for years. I need to import my old email files into Entourage and have had
no joy at all. I have the "pst" file, I have even successfully copied the
"pst" Outlook file into Outlook Express,
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Would that be Outlook Express for windows or OE for Mac?
but if that's the way, how do I then
import the resulting "dmg" files into Entourage? I do not run Exchange Server
on the PC, just MS Office Professional. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? Thanks, James
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Check out the options on the "Convert Mail from Windows to Mac" Page:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/cross_platform/win_mac.html>
 
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James_Tree

Hi Diane,

Thanks for this. I am new to a Mac (OS 10.5.2) and have a Windows 2000 XP laptop which has my old based PC MS Office Outlook 2003 emails which I wish to import into Entourage on the Mac.
I do have the PST. I also exported the same MS Outlook 2003 files into MS Outlook Express 6 on the same laptop as I thought that might be an intermediate step - apparently not! I don't have an earlier version of Outlook (i.e. the 2001 edition mentioned in the blog)

I have looked at the files you suggest, but can't see anything that helps.

Do you have a suggestion? Your help is very much appreciated!

I might also tell you that I have tried installing VMWare Fusion onto the Mac. I managed to successfully load Windows XP Home onto the VM and then installed the Office MS Outlook 2003 as above.
All ran very well until I downloaded the "free" VM Fusion upgrade. The VM now crashes whenever I try to do anything! VMWare seem unable to sort it and have told me that I need to buy the "full" i.e. not an OEM version of XP Home!
This is madness, as here in the UK the boxed edition sells for around £200!

Looking forward eagerly to any thoughts you might have!
 
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Diane Ross

I do have the PST. I also exported the same MS Outlook 2003 files into MS
Outlook Express 6 on the same laptop as I thought that might be an
intermediate step - apparently not! I don't have an earlier version of Outlook
(i.e. the 2001 edition mentioned in the blog)
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Does Thunderbird see your files to import. I've never done this so can only
quote back what users have suggested. What about Little Machines? I think
you can demo it.
Looking forward eagerly to any thoughts you might have!
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For help with VMWare Fusion and general Mac questions:

I suggest joining the Mac-L list. It's a general Mac talk list. It's
moderated so no trolls and no spam. It's one of the oldest Mac lists around
and a great place to get help with most things Mac.

<http://www.listmoms.net/lists/#mac-l>

Read list rules. They are strict about quoting back. Trim replies.

The MacOSX list is also a good list and has strict rules. No rich text and
no HTML. Many of the same people are on both lists.

<http://osxlist.com/>
 
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