Transferring Your Outlook and Quickbooks Data to Mac OS X? 50
rollthelosindice asks: "I recently picked up the new 1GHZ eMac with Superdrive with the intentions of it being purely a video editing machine, but of course I changed my mind once I started using it, and wanted to import my email over from Outlook and my business accounting over from Quickbooks, however Apple's Mail can't import form Outlook, only Outlook Express. The same goes for Quickbooks, where they can only migrate over Quicken. I've tried all sorts of importing and exporting to/from different file formats (CSV, etc) to try and make it work, but there seems to be no solution other than running both machines right next to one another. I even tried VNC for a few days, but that got frustrating. Has anyone come up with a successful work around for these importing short falls? I'm sure there are others like me in this or a similar situation."
I was gonna try this... (Score:2, Informative)
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Three words: (Score:1)
Use Eudora (Score:5, Informative)
Export from Outlook/Outlook Express into Eudora, and from Eudora into Mail.
I used Eudora for a looong time exactly because it was cross compatible across platforms and versions. My mailboxes from 1996 are still readable in Eudora in 2003
But Mail is just too darned convenient, so I switched last year; same with Mozilla/Safari.
Re:Use Eudora (Score:1, Informative)
Use Eudora or PowerMail inst
Re:Use Eudora (Score:3, Informative)
Now: I'm not sure where you are getting unbearably slow. I just converted my local mail files on a NetBSD server to IMAP (1gig of mail, 180k+ messages of list traffic and such).
Sure it took about 20 hours to sync the first time (I have Mail caching all of my mail and attachments to the local disk so I can get at them offline) but once that task was over I find mail to be quite responsive. Esp whe
Try Outlook2Mac (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Try Outlook2Mac (Score:2, Informative)
Utility that works on Linux (Score:4, Informative)
libdbx on freshmeat [freshmeat.net]. It includes a utilty that will convert from Outlook to mbox. Then import it in your mac... works fine for me...
Re:Utility that works on Linux (Score:2)
Use Mozilla for your Outlook mail (Score:5, Informative)
If you want to spend money, try Outlook2Mac (http://www.littlemachines.com/).
Re:Use Mozilla for your Outlook mail (Score:4, Informative)
You can also try this hint [macosxhints.com], but I couldn't get it to work.
To the previous poster suggesting libdbx [freshmeat.net]: it converts Outlook Exprees data files, not Outlook .pst files. For conversion of .pst files to mbox, you'll nedd libPST [sourceforge.net]. Only problem is, the released version of libPST doesn't support little endian machines w/o a code rewrite. The maintainer did release an OS X friendly version (0.4) but M$ threatened with a cease and desist letter.
Hope some of my blabbing has helped...
Bob
Intuit's Mac OS X support is terrible (Score:3, Informative)
Now given, you asked about Quickbooks, not Quicken, but based on my experience, you'll have to jump through some hoops to get there. I had to export my Quicken data to QIF, in the process losing my loans, memorized transactions, scheduled transactions and some other minor stuff. Then I imported this file into Quicken Mac and had to go back and fix everything.
QIF isn't Quicken's native file format. It's simply for transactions. One would think that after a decade of Quicken, Intuit's Windows and Mac engineering teams would share as much code as possible, but it just doesn't seem that way to me.
Quicken Mac '03 itself is an awful product. It lags the Windows '99 product feature-wise, lacks polish and has many bugs. Most of them are of the irritating UI variety, but I've had it crash on me several times and it can't seem to keep track of my home loan without getting the balance out of whack.
Unfortunately, momentum is keeping me with Quicken for now. I'm hoping that '04 is a big step forward. Otherwise I may look at switching to something else, like Moneydance.
GnuCash (Score:2, Interesting)
I can't say much for MoneyDance, the other main financial package option.
same problem (Score:3, Informative)
we both used outlook. The way i got her mail over to eonturage was by copying it to imap folders.
now theonly problem is how to get the calendar data and contacts (using csv was a pain)
also anyone know a good way to sync a pocket pc
Pocket PC with Mac (Score:1)
I have also read the reviews of PocketMac and am disappointed and frustrated that it seems to be expensive and worthless at the same time. The concept of Missing Sync is different and appears to be more Mac orientated. let's hope it works.
Versiontracker is you friend (Score:1)
YOU ARE MY NEW BEST FRIEND (Score:1)
Re:YOU ARE MY NEW BEST FRIEND (Score:1)
Quickbooks made a tool (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Quickbooks made a tool (Score:3, Informative)
Use IMAP and .Mac (Score:5, Informative)
Try this...
It is of course a piece of lame commercialism that make M$ choose to make Exchange and IMAP connectivity mutually exclusive in Outlook.
Regards... Greg
Re:Use IMAP and .Mac (Score:2)
Outlook 2002 lets you use IMAP and Exchange concurrently.
For mail transfer, IMAP (Score:4, Informative)
If your ISP or job *ahem* doesn't provide you with access to an IMAP server, then you can use Fink [sf.net] to install a copy of UW-IMAPD [sourceforge.net], and just run that on localhost or somewhere on your home network -- sudo fink -y install uw-imapd
If you had other questions, I'm sure some sysadmin at work *ahem* would be willing to answer any questions... :-)
Re:For mail transfer, IMAP (Score:2)
This is the best solution. IMHO.
IMAP is going to be your best solution seeing as how you've fought CSVs with no luck at all. I've been down that road myself and didn't have any more luck than the OP did.
You have complete control over everything by running IMAP on your box.
I went so far as to trim the fat on my mail down to the stuff I absolutely had to keep
Why bother? (Score:2, Funny)
If you really what to keep it safe, I suggest printing it out and renting a security deposit box at your local bank.
Re:Why bother? (Score:2)
What you're saying isn't totally off-base though. How much of that E-Mail over the years do you really need accessible immediately? I have a ton of messages from when I used OE, and even more from KMail. When I switched to Mail app I just decided to leave it all behind. If I need a message from either of those I just load Kmail from my old Linux box over X11, or start up Windows in VPC.
Use Emailchemy and QuickBooks! (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/
For QuickBooks data, why not just use QuickBooks? There is a Mac OS X native version.
http://www.intuit.com
Re:Use Emailchemy and QuickBooks! (Score:1)
But it won't be long before Intuit is toppled if they don't learn to play nice with their customers. Sorry, didn't mean
I did it - scripts folder (Score:2, Informative)
You're all over complicating it. Ya Geeks! (Score:2, Informative)
As far as contacts, drag them out of outlook into a folder. This will create VCF files. They can be burned to CD and dragged right into Address Book on the Mac. Do not try to Export the contacts because this will create one large text file only readable by M$ clients. You want a bunch of little VCF cards, instead.
Very simple sol
Quickbooks for OS X (Score:2)
As for importing mail, the best thing to do is use an IMAP (not POP) mail solution, like
Buy Macs for the Karma
maybe via IMAP (Score:2)
First get access to an IMAP e-mail account (if you don't have one already, you might be able to run an IMAP server on OS X). Then access the IMAP account from your Windows PC. Create appropriate folders within the IMAP account using your Windows mail client (I'm pretty sure Outlook can do this). Then drag messages into those folders. Outlook shou
still waiting (Score:1)
Transfering Contact from Outlook (Score:1)
You can get it at http://www.stoer.de/ipod/ipod.htm
Good Luck.
How to avoid doing the migration thing ever again (Score:2)
I have an IMAP server running on my system. Its inboxes are being filled using perl scripts that get the mails from my POP3-accounts, sorting spam, mailing lists, etc. via POPFile.
Just took me an evening to set up, and now I can use any IMAP compatible mailer I desire. (As a bonus, I get complete access to all my mails from both my dektop and laptop.)
Re:How to avoid doing the migration thing ever aga (Score:1)
IMAP (Score:1)
My own system uses a separate Linux box running sendmail to download the mail, then a separate imap daemon to allow access to the mailboxes, b
Convert them to a Text file. (Score:2)
Dolemite
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