[ale] OT: Know any elderly-Mac wizards?*

[Greg Canter]

Have you searched the web for a cheap program to perform the conversion ?
or other programs/processes that are free  ??  for instance a google search
for 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=Mac+Outlook+Expres
s+5.0+conversion&btnG=Search

brought up such gems as

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Macintosh-OS-1063/2008/3/Transferring-Outlook-Exp
ress.htm

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21265

http://www.emailman.com/conversion/

http://www.macintouch.com/oe5.html

Also, doesn't OE have an export feature ?

You may have to work harder and spend more time for a free solution but I
opted to spend about $18.00 for a conversion program that worked in about 10
minutes as opposed to the several hours that I spent trying to do it by hand
when I did the Windows Outlook to Mac conversion.

Good Luck,

Greg

On 5/13/08 1:48 PM, "John Mills" <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> ALErs -
> 
> * I don't care about the wizards' ages; the computer is an iMac about 7 years
> old.
> 
> I'm having a $%^&*!! of a time exporting my wife's e-mail and address book
> from Outlook Express 5.0 in MacOS-8.6 to anything else! Exported and
> database files don't look like clean matches to the MsWin versions for the
> OE-5/6. I've gotten to the point I can probably convert the address book
> semi-manually with a spreadsheet, but I've absolutely no idea how to
> capture the mail files.
> 
> I am headed for Thunderbird in Vista (more $%^&*@@!!), but if I get them
> into any recent MsWin app, I can probably finish the job.
> 
> Any clues or good sources of this type info?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   - John
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