Re: Importing Old Outlook E-mail Messages to OSX

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Hi Pea,

Go to HD/Documents/Microsoft User Data [MUD]/Identities. That's where your
OE identities *should* be stored. Do you see more than one Identity folder
there? You will see Main Identity for sure. Is there another? If so,
that's your old OE identity. Rename Main Identity to (for instance) Blank
Identity and rename the other folder Main Identity. Open OE. Are all your
messages, etc., there? If so, you can trash Blank Identity.

Now, when you try to import your OE data, Mail should be able to find it.

If you don't find a second Identity folder in the MUD, look in
HD/Applications (Mac OS 9)/Outlook Express 5 Folder. If that doesn't work,
search your HD for any folders called Identities or Main Identity. See what
turns up. It's there somewhere. When you find it, follow the procedure
above to restore it to its original name and location.

Note: I'm assuming you don't have Office 2001 or Office 2004. If you do,
do *not* mess with anything inside the Office 2001 Identities or the Office
2004 Identities folders. There will be Main Identity folders inside those
as well, but they're not what you want.

Post back if you need more help.

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On 3/19/06 12:35 PM, in article
1142800512.554092.130960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Little Pea"
<bsuttle5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm new to this group, and I hope someone can help me with my problem.
I've been using Outlook Express 5.0 and running 9.2.2 on my iMac.
Today I installed OSX 10.4.3 and had Roadrunner help me set up in the
new mail program that comes with Tiger.

The problem is that I can't find my old e-mail messages to order import
them to the new system. When I launch Outlook in Classic mode, it
seems to think I'm there for the first time - there's nothing in the
"in" or "sent" boxes.

Roadrunner support tells me they are not on their server, which means
that they should be somewhere on my computer's hard drive, and this is
not their issue. Apple support agrees they should be somewhere on my
hard drive but can't tell me where, plus it is not their issue. I
can't seem to find anything on Microsoft's support site that deals with
this.

Any help would be appreciated.


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