G'day Alan, a while back I had reason to be doing this and I used "O2M" on Ronni's recommendation. It is a $10 download and worked flawlessly, with all emails transferred, with attachments, subject line and folderising (not sure if that's a kosher word but gets the message I think) as you'd expect. perhaps this is worth a try. If you google "O2M" it is the first hit returned and their is a free trial version which will demo the process.
Regards Peter. On 17/03/2011, at 8:17 PM, Alan Smith wrote: > > 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
