On 17/02/2012, at 8:40 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 17/02/2012, at 8:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> On 16/02/2012, at 6:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> Windows Migration Assistant >>> <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4796> >> >> >> That was the first thing I tried, of course (after assuring the client that >> this was going to be a piece of cake :-) ). The problem is that it relies >> on the Mac being able to network successfully to the PC. The client's >> problematic Nortons installation was preventing this from happening (at >> least I suspect it was Nortons to blame). The Mac could see the PC on the >> network, just not able to access it in any way, so Migration Assistant was a >> waste of time. The connection was never made. Rather than waste the client's >> time trying to sort out THAT issue, I felt it would be faster just to do it >> all manually. Everything worked fine except for the mail. > > Hi Peter, > > I’m sorry, I obviously did not read your first email thoroughly :( > > This is a 2009 solution, so have no idea if it will solve your problem. > > 1. Copy entire Windows Mail folder into your Mac OS X. > You can find it in your Windows machine under Users/[your username > profile]/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Mail > > 2. Install Thunderbird on your Mac. > > 3. Install this AddOn on Thunderbird : > <http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html> > > 4. Restart Thunderbird. Under Tools menu you can find Import/Export mbox/eml > format. > Select Import all eml files from a directory, then also from > sottodirectories. > Browse to location where you copied Windows Mail folder. > > 5. Import from Thunderbird into Mail. > >
Been there, done that unfortunately. Yes, it should work… but it doesn't :-( As I said in my original email, Thunderbird imports the Windows Mail just fine. No problems there. It's getting it back out of Thunderbird that becomes the issue now. Instead of (for example) 173 Mb of messages being converted into separate messages, I get one message 173Mb in size, displaying the contents of the first message in the stack. Not terribly useful. This happens whether I import directly from Thunderbird using Mail's Import command, or whether I first export from Thunderbird as mbox files (the mboximport plugin allows that), and then import into Mail. Either way, I get the same result. It was exasperation with the Thunderbird (non)solution that prompted my original email. 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>
