[G4] go to Outlook Express from Mail app

[Frank Sudore]

Microsoft keeps that folder  with all the settings in the user  
document folder (I know cause I moved it once)
Unless it's trashed, it should be there
On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:15 AM, John Erdman wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>
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