Reader Lowell Brown contacted me on Twitter with the idea of helping a kinsperson with their email. He tweets: I’m going to help a family member move from a PC to a new Mac. How can we convert Outlook.pst archives to a format compatible with Apple’s Mail? Microsoft uses the PST (Personal Storage Table) file format for Outlook’s messages and events. Although the format is accessible to Outlook for Mac, Apple’s Mail won’t deal with such archives. Therefore you have to convert them.

Sep 11, 2017  PST to MBOX Converter for Mac is the best tool for all users who wish to migrate from their MS Outlook profile to Apple Mail accounts, for which converting the. Open an Outlook Data File (.pst or.olm) On the Outlook for Mac File menu, click Import. Click Outlook Data File, and then click the right arrow. Select a data file type, and then click the right arrow. Locate the data file on your computer, and then click Import. When the import process is complete, click Done.

Excel data analysis toolpak for mac. Outlook for Mac lets you directly import.pst archives. There are a couple of ways to do this. If you already have a copy of Outlook for Mac, simply launch it, choose File > Import, select Outlook Data File (.pst or.olm) in the first Import window, click the Next button, select Outlook for Windows Data File (.pst), click Next again, navigate to the.pst file you’ve copied to your Mac, select it, and click Import. As promised, those messages will be imported into Outlook and filed under the On My Computer heading. Drag the folder that contains these messages to the desktop and it will be turned into an mbox file that you can import into Mail.

“But dude!,” you blurt with a shocking informality, “I don’t have a copy of Outlook for Mac!” Yes, but you could—free for 30 days—if you punch the Try Now button on. As the previous sentence hints, this gives you 30-days of Office for nothing. After you’ve converted your files it’s entirely up to you whether you wish to hang on to Office and pay the $10-per-month subscription price when your trial ends. If that sounds like a bother (and yes, it kind of is, but hey, it’s free!), you can go with a dedicated utility such as Gladwev’s $25 (Mac App Store direct link). It couldn’t be much easier to operate.

Just select the.pst file you’ve exported from Outlook on the PC, choose what you want to convert (mail, contacts, calendars), select the output format (mbox or eml for mail messages), and click Start. The messages will be converted to a form that you can import into Mail. Personally, I’d choose mbox.

A third-party utility use as PST Convert Pro can easily convert.pst archives. Now launch Mail, choose File > Import Mailboxes, select File in mbox format in the resulting window, click Continue, navigate to the exported mbox file, and click Choose. The messages will be added to Mail and found under the On My Mac heading within an Import folder.

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I am helping my 89 year old mom move from a PC to a Mac. She was using Outlook 2010 on the PC and has 5.2 GB of e-mail history she wants to be able to access on her Mac (she's never deleted anything, her computer files look a lot like her garage). I purchased Outlook 2016 and she's under strict instructions to use iMail going forward, and only use Outlook to access old messages (they had not been saved to her e-mail server, so importing the.pst file seemed to me to be the only way to get her e-mail history onto the new Mac). I copied the pst file to an external hard drive and then onto her Mac. I then imported the file into Outlook on the Mac. It says the import successfully completed (5.2 Gb took a long time). When I open Outlook, I see the.pst file listed in 'On My Computer', but when I click on the folder, there's nothing showing.