[G4] go to Outlook Express from Mail app

[John Erdman]

At this point I don't even know what machine they've got. I think it's 
an iMac of some sort. She and her husband have resisted making the leap 
to OSX (even tho it's loaded on their machine) for fear that they'll 
mess somethin up. HE decided to change their boot disk to OSX on Sunday 
to see what would happen. And sure enough after starting up mail.app, 
he imported his mail and address book. Sure enough, now the address 
book is empty and all the mail is gone. Switching back to the OS 9 
start up disc apparently doesn't help, the mail in Outlook and the 
associated address book is "gone".

And that's all I know about their current problem. Since I'm the local 
Mac guru, I get the SOS call. We'll see later today what he mght hve 
done. I've assured them that's it's very unlikely that the files are 
gone. More likely that they are some place unexpected.

John


On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:33, Frank Sudore wrote:

> The export should work the same way, but I would save the address book 
> in a text format just in case.
> She must have a slow machine to want to go back to 9. I don't even 
> have classic installed anymore.
> Good Luck
> On Aug 22, 2005, at 8:57 AM, John Erdman wrote:
>
>> For reasons I don't really understand a dear neighbor has elected to 
>> go back to OS 9.2.2 from OS X. (I think she doesn't like to work in 
>> classic mode, but that's beside the point.)  She would like to export 
>> all her Mail, address, and mailboxes back to Outlook Express (Ugh!). 
>> Can anybody tell me how to do that. I am aware of how to go the other 
>> way but it's not immediately obvious go backwards.