Update: Eric Caldwell turned me onto a solution for doing this conversion / import, plus a whole lot more email migration related tasks. It’s called Emailchemy. You can pick that tool up here for $29. Well worth the money if you ask me.
Okay, so I posed a question today on Twitter to some of my friends who are hardcore Mac users as to how I can import my Windows based Microsoft Outlook .PST files (containing 11 years worth of business data) into Microsoft Entourage on my new MacBook Pro. I know that there has to be a way to do this, I did a little research the other day and found some possibilities but none have panned out yet…
2 Possible Solutions that Didn’t Work Out…
- O2M – this solution just works if you are bringing Mac based Outlook 2001 files into Entourage 2004 (and up) and will do nothing for you if you have .PST files originating in a Windows Environment.
- Microsoft PST Import Tool – ran into the same situation w/ this solution as well.
There has to be a way to do this…
I know that there has to be a solution out there for handling this type of migration, but for the life of me I can’t seem to find it. It looks like to me if Mac wanted to grow into the business sector, they would benefit greatly by coming up w/ some sort of conversion / import functionality and distribute the heck out of it. I am still looking while juggling a few projects today but will update this post as soon as I find a solution.
In the meantime, until I can spend some quality time researching a solution for doing this, if any of you out there have any suggestions for me, I would love to hear from you, please fee free to leave a comment…
Hey Cotton, I did this same thing a few years back and this is the tool I used with perfect results: http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
Awesome, thanks for the tip. Will check it out right now. It appears to handle everything. Thanks!!!!