Hi Peter,
Windows Migration Assistant
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796>
"With OS X Lion, you can migrate all of the information from your old Windows
PC to your new Mac. Lion automatically transfers your contacts, calendars, and
email accounts and puts them in the appropriate applications.
Windows Migration brings the following information from your Windows PC
(Windows XP SP3 or greater) to your Mac:
• Email: IMAP and POP accounts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows
Mail and Windows Live email accounts are transferred to Mail. Email metadata
such as read, replied, and flagged are transferred from Outlook, Outlook
Express and Windows Mail to Mail in OS X.
• Contacts: Outlook and Outlook Express contacts, and Windows Contacts
from the Contact home directory are transferred to Address Book.
• Calendars: Outlook calendars are transferred to iCal
• iTunes library, including music, photos, videos and apps and games
for iOS devices, except rentals
• Home directory folders and content, including Music, Pictures,
Desktop, Documents, and Downloads
• Browser bookmarks and homepage from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and
Safari are transferred to Safari
• User settings including localization, locale, and any customized
desktop picture
What you need to do first
• First, make sure that both the Windows PC and the Mac are on the same
network, such as your home network.
• Second, to avoid interrupting the migration process, disable
automatic installation of updates in Windows.
• Make sure know the name and password of an administrator account. The
first account created on the Mac is an administrator account.
Note: This process will create a new user account on your Mac to contain the
Windows PC information that is migrated over. It will not merge the
information with an existing user account on the Mac.”
Etc etc etc …..
Cheers,
Ronni
On 16/02/2012, at 5:53 PM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
> I have a client who has just bought his first iMac after finally throwing his
> hands up in disgust as Nortons on his clunky Windows Vista computer once
> again prevented him from doing some perfectly straightforward thing. I helped
> him transfer everything last week. The only problem was that Lion's Migration
> Assistant was of no use to us on this occasion since we were unable to get
> the Mac to talk to the Windows computer (again, I suspect Norton's hand in
> this). Rather than try to work that out, I decided to just transfer
> everything manually. It all went smoothly, with everything valuable coming
> across, including all his contacts, but we choked when it came to his mail.
>
> Windows Mail saves its messages as .eml files, and Mac Mail won't import
> them. There are commercial .eml to mbox converters available, but they tend
> to be quite expensive for that they do (which is just s one-off job) and they
> tend to be available from web sites which look cheap and dodgy, and I can't
> quite bring myself to commit money on software which is such an unknown
> quantity.
>
> I have followed a strategy which involves importing the .eml files into
> Thunderbird using a free plugin, then exporting the mail back out as mbox
> files, or importing directly into Mail from Thunderbird. The import into
> TBird worked perfectly. Getting from there into Mail not so much. Importing
> either as mbox or as a direct TBird import, the files appear to work, but
> there is only one visible message following the import, and its size just
> happens to be about the same size as the entire expected folder of messages.
>
> My question is: is there anyone out there who has had any success with
> getting Windows Mail messages into Apple Mail without going throughout the
> Migration Assistant?
>
>
> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
> Perth, Western Australia
> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948
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