I am having trouble transferring my email on Outlook2003 to Mac Entourage. I find parallels quite flaky and would prefer to now run just the system. does anybody have any advice as I seem to loose email, contacts and calendars whenever I transfer from XP to Mac. Any held greatly appreciated.
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(2 posts)- Started 1 year ago by dbendall
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Hi
I know this problem and you can get round it - It is slightly circuitous but it does work.
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Imagine trying to hold a conversation with someone from China who doesn’t speak English. And just for one moment, let’s pretend that you don’t speak Chinese. You won’t get too far without a translator to help you out. And this is what is happening with Outlook and Entourage
In computer terms the translator could be a third email program which can understand the other two and translate their file formats from one to the other. One such program would be Mozilla Sea-Monkey
You import your Outlook emails into it, then export the same emails, in a different format, to Entourage.
I have written the procedure up on the Home Computer Tutor website (link below). Take a look at it there. If it doesn't work a home visit is in order, although looking at your settings, Australia would put you a tad out of my normal area!
http://www.homecomputertutor.co.uk/free-tips/transfering-email-from-outlook-pc-to-entourage-mac.html
Calanders etc.
Syncing other data is a bit of a pain. It depends on what sort of tools you have at your disposal. I used to use a Palm Pilot and manually sync my Mac at home then my PC at work daily to keep them all the same. I imagine other such devices (such as a Blackberry) will also handle it.It is a bit clumsy. To migrate from Outlook completely, I would probably try to sync to the Blackberry from Outlook, sync the Blackberry to a 3rd party service like Remember The Milk and then you will be able to import the data into iCal which will work with pretty much any hosted service.
Have a look at the Missing Sync http://www.markspace.com/ as well. It might provide a good solution.
Once you have liberated the data from Outlook, you should think about using web based hosted services. I am increasingly using the Mac's Mobile Me service but it is $99 a year. There are free variations: Google Calendar, Remember The Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ and Gmail.
They are all hosted on the web and this is the way to go. If you keep this stuff hosted online, you can swap between computers as often as you want without having this kind of headache when you need to migrate data.
Good luck!
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P.S. As a rule of thumb...
As you have discovered Parallels is not as good as we would all like it to be. To my mind, asking a Mac to run Windows is a bit like towing your caravan with a Ferrari. It goes very fast, but ultimately it's a bad idea and a poor partnership.Since you have the Mac hardware I would suggest that you go for Mac software - and be cautious with Mircrosoft Entourage for the Mac.
Sooner or later Entourage will get a corrupt database. Symptoms of a corrupt database include incorrect sorting, messages not displaying properly, and other unexplained behaviour, like your mouse not working. Rebuilding the database should correct these issues and it is easy enough to do (it sounds technical but it is not. It pretty much involves deleting a couple of folders and pressing a couple of buttons). However, regular rebuilds are not recommended. These days I use Mac Mail. It is a simpler, but better, application in many ways.
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