[ncm]

Hi,

A friend has an old OS9x iMac (first generation to use FireWire) and just purchased a new OSX10.5.4 iMac and she needs to move her email and contacts from the old iMac (using Outlook Express) to the new iMac (using Apple Mail). Does anyone have a clue how this can be accomplished? I tried exporting her contact list from Outlook Express as text dilimited file but it won't import into Mail, and OE seems to use a proprietary format.

[Big Mac]

Hopefully this is helpful:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...61012031813924

[TETENAL]

The easiest way is to put everything onto the server of an IMAP e-mail account. It should be possible to put everything onto a folder on the server from one computer and then copy to a local folder from another computer regardless of the system or mail client used on any of them. A MobileMe test account should suffice.

[Cold Warrior]

gmail is also a good option if you go the IMAP route. Lots of storage.

[ncm]

Thanks, people. I'll see if my friend's new iMac came with the Microsoft Office demo and will try the Entourage import route first. If that doesn't work, then I'll try one of the other suggestions.

[zro]

A tab delimited file should import into Address Book just fine. Maybe try CSV?

[analogika]

Not for e-mail, though.

I could swear (but I'm not 100% sure) that importing from Outlook Express into Entourage also required OE to open in Classic (impossible on the Intel iMac), like Mail.app import does.

Otherwise, another route would be to install a version of OS X on the G3 iMac and import it into Mail.app there first, then migrate it onto the new machine.

Another question is whether the old iMac would be capable of *booting* (I know it can't be installed) from the 10.5 Intel iMac's hard drive forced into Target Disk Mode? You could then use the iMac's system for Classic (since you'd be running on PPC hardware).

[Cold Warrior]

A new Intel iMac from Apple would have been formatted with the GUID partition scheme. PowerPC Macs can't boot from GUID.