Re: Transferring email identities and folders from Mac to PC

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Hi Jenn.

One good method to do this, is to simply drag each single message to the
desktop. There will appear a file with the name of the message and with the
icon of an Outlook Express Mac 5.x message. It is important that, before you
transfer these files to your new PC, you add the ".eml" extension to each
one of them, since Windows won't recognize them as email messages otherwise.
Once the files are onto the new PC's hard disk, you can just drag them to
the email messages list on your OE 6 XP, and they will merge with the rest
of the messages, just as if you had received them on that machine.

If you prefer to transfer the files to Microsoft Outlook (not OE), there is
a good tutorial on how to do so at
http://www.consultantcommons.org/node/222.

Hoping to have been helpful,
Hernán


"Jenn" <jen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
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> Hi, I am having a great deal of difficulty transferring all of my old
> email folders and identity from my old Mac Powerbook G3 OS 8.6, Microsoft
> Outlook Express v. 5.0.5, to my new PC laptop which runs Microsoft Outlook
> Express v. 6.
>
> Is this even possible? I have been able to transfer all files from my old
> identities folder on to the PC, but neither Outlook Express 6 nor Outlook
> 2003 on the PC seem to have the capability of importing these files, nor
> can I save these files in a different, more compatible format. What am I
> doing wrong?
>


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