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biguglyman · biguglyman #1 (**permalink**)

09-03-2007, 09:12 PM

My daughter has a new macbook and wants to know how to get her e-maill info from her old pc laptop to her new macbook. Help?

biguglyman · biguglyman #2 (**permalink**)

09-04-2007, 10:27 AM

Anybody? She basically needs the contents of her address book transfered. OE will export this as a .wab (Windows file which I bet the Mac won't like) or a text file. I'd hate to think she has to copy them all by hand...

walkerj · walkerj #3 (**permalink**)

09-04-2007, 11:08 AM

She can probably export her address book to a comma delimited text file which Address Book can then subsequently import. That's how I did so for my Palm desktop contact list, and now sync up with that. Or possibly to a vcard format. That seems to be understood by just about any application that does contact management. That's how I got some of my contacts into my phone, FWIW.

Neo · Neo #4 (**permalink**)

09-04-2007, 03:10 PM

I recently switched to Mac. I was previously using Outlook Express (OE). In OE, click File, Export, then Address Book... Save as a text file, aka delimited or comma separated values. The file will end with .csv or .txt. Mac will read these no problem. Just Import... from your new email client.

As for messages, the new mail client on the Mac (Mail or Entourage, maybe?) will import these from the server. If there are some messages only on your hard disk, you could forward them to an email address again or... I think you might be able to Import... these as well from the Mac mail client. You could also copy the files straight from disk to disk.

biguglyman #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 22, 2007 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 30 Mac Specs: none	09-03-2007, 09:12 PM My daughter has a new macbook and wants to know how to get her e-maill info from her old pc laptop to her new macbook. Help? Homemade PC w/Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB ram, Radeon 9800 pro, and Half-Life 1+2.
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biguglyman #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 22, 2007 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 30 Mac Specs: none	09-04-2007, 10:27 AM Anybody? She basically needs the contents of her address book transfered. OE will export this as a .wab (Windows file which I bet the Mac won't like) or a text file. I'd hate to think she has to copy them all by hand... Homemade PC w/Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB ram, Radeon 9800 pro, and Half-Life 1+2.
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Neo #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 14, 2007 Posts: 557 Mac Specs: white MB 2.16GHz 3GB 320GB 10.6.1	09-04-2007, 03:10 PM I recently switched to Mac. I was previously using Outlook Express (OE). In OE, click File, Export, then Address Book... Save as a text file, aka delimited or comma separated values. The file will end with .csv or .txt. Mac will read these no problem. Just Import... from your new email client. As for messages, the new mail client on the Mac (Mail or Entourage, maybe?) will import these from the server. If there are some messages only on your hard disk, you could forward them to an email address again or... I think you might be able to Import... these as well from the Mac mail client. You could also copy the files straight from disk to disk.
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