On 16/02/2012, at 6:54 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I just went through the same exercise for Georgie's mum, Wendy (now 91). She > had a VERY slow Vista machine and since we visit often I decided to take up > my 24" iMac (now I'm on a nice 27"). The iMac already has accounts for > Georgie & I so I set up a new account for Wendy. I didn't have the requisite > cables to make a network connection to the PC, but the data involved would > happily fit on a USB thumbdrive I had - so that was the way I went. > > The iMac has Office 2004 on it and I tend to use Entourage for my email but > decided to set up Apple Mail for Wendy. I set-up her account and then I had > expected to be able to import the emails into Mail but, like you, found that > that did not work. > > My solution, like you, was to use an intermediate email program - however I > used Entourage - since it was already on the machine & I am used to it. >
Unfortunately I upgraded to Office ii some time ago on all my computers. I have never been an Entourage user, and my crystal ball did not tell me that I would one day need it for something as arcane as this. And as you say, Outlook in Office 11 doesn't do it (it uses .pst files!). Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
