At the suggestion of a fellow recent Mac migrant (macmigrant.com, plug plug), I am attempting to achieve my chose square-peg-round-hole task using Mozilla's Thunderbird as a go-between. This method involves 5 simple-sounding steps:
- Load Thunderbird (for Windows) onto the PC
- Import Outlook .pst files into Thunderbird (Windows)
- Install Thunderbird (for Mac) onto the Mac
- Transfer the Thunderbird (Windows) data to the Thunderbird (Mac) installation, and finally...
- Import the Thunderbird (Mac) data into AppleKory's Mail environment
Oughtta be simple, right? There are even websites that Google up that say so, right! Rotsa ruck.
In my initial attempt I managed to get all the way to the second step before hitting a roadblock. Got Thunderbird (Windows) installed on my PC, and started the Import procedure for Outlook files. After a few minutes...ERROR. And an unrecoverable one at that (had to Task Manager my way out of it, in fact). Turns out there was something in my Temp folder that was hanging the process up...and though you'd think it would be an easy fix -- just empty the darn thing, right? -- no matter what I did, I couldn't get over that obstacle.
Just knew it wasn't going to be THAT easy...continued in part 3.
In my initial attempt I managed to get all the way to the second step before hitting a roadblock. Got Thunderbird (Windows) installed on my PC, and started the Import procedure for Outlook files. After a few minutes...ERROR. And an unrecoverable one at that (had to Task Manager my way out of it, in fact). Turns out there was something in my Temp folder that was hanging the process up...and though you'd think it would be an easy fix -- just empty the darn thing, right? -- no matter what I did, I couldn't get over that obstacle.
Just knew it wasn't going to be THAT easy...continued in part 3.
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