Import Entourage data to a new Mac

[Bert]

I have a pre Intel processor Power Mac G4 with Microsoft Office 2004 installed. I am now about to purchase a new Mac with an Intel processor run by OS X Leopard. How can I import my Entourage data (address book, email files, calendar, etc.) to my new computer?

 

[Diane Ross]

I have a pre Intel processor Power Mac G4 with Microsoft Office 2004
installed. I am now about to purchase a new Mac with an Intel processor run by
OS X Leopard. How can I import my Entourage data (address book, email files,
calendar, etc.) to my new computer?

Drag over your Microsoft User Data folder from Documents. When you open
Entourage it will start up as usual.

Be sure to upgrade Leopard to 10.5.1 using the standalone updater from Apple
rather than the one from Software update.

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/>

We are expecting 10.5.2 soon. It is supposed to fix many of the problems
users are seeing. It should help Office 2008 problems too.

To understand why the standalone updaters are better than the ones from
software updater see:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/combo.html>

 

[Jim]

I have a pre Intel processor Power Mac G4 with Microsoft Office 2004 installed. I am now about to purchase a new Mac with an Intel processor run by OSX Leopard. How can I import my Entourage data (address book, email files, calendar, etc.) to my new computer?

This sounds like my problem! I just got a new Mac Pro tower as my main
Mac, replacing my 2001 G4 Quicksilver tower. Both Macs are running
10.5.1, although the old Mac had to be tricked into installing Leopard
because the clock speed was too slow; in fact, Leopard is a little
flakey on it.

I ran the Migration SW on the new Mac Pro to move "all" my settings
and apps over (hooked the old tower up via Firewire and used Target
Disk mode to put the old Mac's boot drive on the new Mac's desktop).
However, many of my apps and settings didn't migrate. In particular,
Entourage opened up with no data: no messages, no address book,
nothing. I tried to use Entourage's "import" command, but the MUD
identity database from my old Mac was grayed out and I couldn't find
any way to get the data from the old to the new Mac.

Thanks for any help . . . Jim

 

[Diane Ross]

I ran the Migration SW on the new Mac Pro to move "all" my settings
and apps over (hooked the old tower up via Firewire and used Target
Disk mode to put the old Mac's boot drive on the new Mac's desktop).
However, many of my apps and settings didn't migrate. In particular,
Entourage opened up with no data: no messages, no address book,
nothing. I tried to use Entourage's "import" command, but the MUD
identity database from my old Mac was grayed out and I couldn't find
any way to get the data from the old to the new Mac.

Drag over the Microsoft User Data folder in Documents.