I cannot transfer my full email history from PC to iMac. Any suggestions for a remedy?
I converted my Microsoft Outlook emails to Thunderbird (3.1.9) on my WinXP machine. I copied the resultant mail file to my iMac and then used Mail (4.4) to import the data. All folders are imported but no folder has the full tally of emails it should have - say only 10 percent overall. Some folders are completely empty, some have a few emails, and others very precise numbers of 100, 200 and 400 emails. On comparing a block of transferred emails with the source there are individual emails missing as well as from beginning and end. Within Mail I deleted the Import mailbox several times. I copied the Thunderbird mail file to two different USB thumb drives. I copied the USB file to desktop for another Import test. It seems that I'm getting a consistent data transfer whatever the method. Even USB is too fast to read the individual email subject as it is being imported, but I'm sure I recognised some names that belonged inside a subsequent empty folder. I cleaned up the Outlook emails and folders before converting to Thunderbird. Including the Archive files, total mail folder is about 650MB. I only want the Personal files, but I did one test with both Archive and Personal streams - the same incomplete pattern of emails happened. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5" Nov 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz/4 MB OSX 10.6.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
