Import OE 5 data - Entourage 2008

I have a friend who recently installed Office 2008 on a new Intel
iMac. He previously used Outlook Express 5 in OS 9 on an old Sawtooth
G4 Mac. Without Entourage 2004 which can import the OE 5 main
identity, is there anyway for him to get the OE 5 mail and contacts
into Entourage 2008?

Diane
Sat Mar 29 22:43:06 CDT 2008

On 3/29/08 5:38 15PM, in article
0f4d0166-11a0-4fef-ab97-8db05d176ef1@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "kaitech"
<ellwinster@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a friend who recently installed Office 2008 on a new Intel
> iMac. He previously used Outlook Express 5 in OS 9 on an old Sawtooth
> G4 Mac. Without Entourage 2004 which can import the OE 5 main
> identity, is there anyway for him to get the OE 5 mail and contacts
> into Entourage 2008?

Options

Can he still open OE? If yes, do it the manual way. Export as MBOX and
contacts as tab delimited.

Use Apple Mail then transfer to Entourage

Download the demo Office 2004 and import. Be sure to completely Office 2004
using "Remove Office" when you are through. Be sure the files are on the
same volume. Entourage doesn't like importing from another drive.

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Diane
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

kaitech
Sun Mar 30 14:56:40 CDT 2008

On Mar 29, 5:43=A0pm, Diane Ross <di...@invalid.entourage.mvps.org>
wrote:
> On 3/29/08 5:38 15PM, in article
> 0f4d0166-11a0-4fef-ab97-8db05d176...@c19g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "kaitec=
h"
>
> <ellwins...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a friend who recently installed Office 2008 on a new Intel
> > iMac. =A0He previously used Outlook Express 5 in OS 9 on an old Sawtooth=

> > G4 Mac. =A0Without Entourage 2004 which can import the OE 5 main
> > identity, is there anyway for him to get the OE 5 mail and contacts
> > into Entourage 2008?
>
> Options
>
> Can he still open OE? If yes, do it the manual way. Export as MBOX and
> contacts as tab delimited.
>
> Use Apple Mail then transfer to Entourage
>
> Download the demo Office 2004 and import. Be sure to completely Office 200=
4
> using "Remove Office" when you are through. Be sure the files are on the
> same volume. Entourage doesn't like importing from another drive.
>
> --
> Diane
> Entourage Help Page =A0 <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
> Entourage Help Blog =A0<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Thanks, I will let him know..

Cath
Fri May 02 12:23:08 CDT 2008

Hello, I'm trying to move messages from Outlook Express 5 on an old mac into either Mail (v 3.2) or Entourage (2008) on a new one. Please could you outline the steps for exporting Outlook Express as MBOX? Many thanks

Diane
Fri May 02 23:27:08 CDT 2008

"Cath@officeformac.com" wrote:

> Hello, I'm trying to move messages from Outlook Express 5 on an old mac into
> either Mail (v 3.2) or Entourage (2008) on a new one. Please could you outline
> the steps for exporting Outlook Express as MBOX? Many thanks

Drag to desktop each folder including subfolders, or use the Export Folders
script. (this gets subfolders too) (freeware)

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/exportfolders1.1.html>

See this page for help.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/index.html>

--
Diane

Catherine
Fri May 09 09:17:37 CDT 2008

> "Cath@officeformac.com" wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm trying to move messages from Outlook Express 5 on an old mac into
> > either Mail (v 3.2) or Entourage (2008) on a new one. Please could you outline
> > the steps for exporting Outlook Express as MBOX? Many thanks
>
> Drag to desktop each folder including subfolders, or use the Export Folders
> script. (this gets subfolders too) (freeware)
>
>
>
> See this page for help.
>
>
>
> --
> Diane
>

Thanks for this - unfortunately dragging the messages to a folder on the desktop and then transferring them from one computer to the other turns the messages from "Outlook Express document" kind to "Unix executable file" on the new mac. These are not recognised by Entourage; the only success I have in dragging them into Entourage is to rename them individually with an .mbox file ending - not really practical as I have 1000+ messages to transfer.. Am I doing something wrong?
>

Diane
Fri May 09 16:14:07 CDT 2008

"Catherine Cooper " wrote:

> Thanks for this - unfortunately dragging the messages to a folder on the
> desktop and then transferring them from one computer to the other turns the
> messages from "Outlook Express document" kind to "Unix executable file" on the
> new mac. These are not recognised by Entourage; the only success I have in
> dragging them into Entourage is to rename them individually with an .mbox file
> ending - not really practical as I have 1000+ messages to transfer.. Am I
> doing something wrong?

Drag the folder not individual messages. This creates an MBOX file for that
folder.

The script Export Folders does it all for you very quickly.

--
Diane