How to convert .pst archives, to .dbx, to .mbox files for use with Mail on Mac OS X
I was struggling with converting a .pst archive to a .dbx (so I could bring a huge .pst archive over to Mac OS X and Mail.app). It turns out to be really easy.
1. Open Outlook (in my case Outlook 2003) and open your .pst archive. Next, go to Tools->Email Accounts, click the radio button for “View or Change existing email accounts”, and then under “Deliver new email to the following location” you should choose the name of your .pst archive (in my case it was called “Personal Folders” (see screenshot). You’ll get some warning about all new incoming mail going to your .pst archive, but just continue, as we’re almost done with the repugnant odor otherwise known as Outlook.
2. Open Outlook Express (if you can’t find Outlook Express, go to Start->Run, type in msimn.exe, and press OK to launch it if it exists somewhere on your machine), choose File->Import->Messages->Outlook and then choose the mailbox you want to import (or all of them if you must).It took about an hour and a half, using a speedy IBM ThinkPad T42, to pull in an archive over 1 GB, but it did it eventually…
3. Before you quit Outlook Express, go to Tools->Options->Maintenance->Store Folder and note your file path to where your .dbx files are kept (mine is “C:\Documents and Settings\bschwie\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{3203D4E4-3933-4654-8ACC-63655A457D5D}\Microsoft\Outlook Express”).Next, to convert the .dbx files into .mbox files, grab “DbxConv”, a DBX to MBOX converter by Ulrich Krebs. Toss DBXconv into the same folder as all of your .dbx files, open a DOS prompt, navigate to the directory that contains the folder full of .dbx files and DbxConv, and then run the following command:dbxconv -mbx *.dbxDepending on how large your .dbx files are, this may take a while (I had a 1.5 GB file that took a half hour). After they are converted, rename the file ending for each file from .mbx to .mbox…
4. After the .dbx files are converted, move the folder containing the .mbx files to your Mac (finally!). On your Mac, renamed all the .mbx files to .mbox. Fire up Mail on your Mac and go to File->Import Mailboxes->Other and then navigate to the folder containing all the .mbx files. All the .mbox files will be grayed out, but just click the “Choose” button and the next window in Mail will show you all the .mbox files it can convert (it will ignore the .dbx files if they are present). Click the OK button to begin importing… Again this may take a bit depending on the processor inside your Mac.Alternative ending… If you aren’t able to get DBXconv on to your PC you can fire up Entourage on your Mac, instead. To go this route, skip steps 3 and 4 above and while you’re in Outlook Express, make a folder on the desktop and drag all the mail messages that you want to convert to the folder on the desktop. Then, transfer this folder containing all your messages in .eml files to your Mac. Fire up Entourage and drag and drop these .eml’s. Once they’re all converted (Entourage may appear to lock up, just be patient), you can export from Entourage to an .mbox file for Mail.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Thanks for the tip. Will come in handy for the switchers…
December 29th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Thanks for the tip! I just ordered a new iMac (my current computer is dieing, oh well). Anyway, here’s a tip for you. Instead of renaming every file’s extension, just run this command instead:
dbxconv -mbx -mbxextmbox *.dbx
Then you don’t have to rename every file by hand (or run any additional commands). Awesome if you have over 50 different .dbx’s (like me :P).
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Brandon, yeah, you’re right. Thanks for the tip. I should change my original entry to incorporate your tip, but this comment list is short enough people will see your comment.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I am a tad confused about the first part, step one. Could someone describe it abit more? I have been using hotmail with outlook for a while but am moving over to gmail and pop3, so am using a variety of programs to get my mail safely over to gmail, this involves pst to mbox conversion.
Im a little confused as to where profiles and things come into the whole mail scenerio, a few tops would be appreciated
Thanks!!
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 am
ahhh, think I sussed it out, converting over now, fingers crossed, thanks for the guide!!
April 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Excellent tip, they should publish this on the apple site, thanks!
April 28th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Thanks for this great suggestion, if i can add a couple of hints I used.
Firstly to rename the files from mbx to mbox in bulk you can use the command
rename *.mbx *.mbox to do them all at once.
Also if you are using entourage 11.3+ and there is no import->mail->other you can simply drag the mbox files directly onto the folder structure in entourage. It takes some time but the mail box and all messages are imported.
July 1st, 2007 at 10:39 am
This was very very useful. Thank you.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:54 am
Thanks so much! I have been looking for hours for ways to switch my mailbox away from outlook 2003 and now I don’t even have to try importing stuff via entourage either! Hooray for never having to touch another microsoft product.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I just got an iMac- my 1st mac ever and my #1 concern was importing all my dbx files- this worked PERFECTLY!
July 6th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
This tip is brilliant, but I can’t use it. My Dell PC crashed and all I have left of my Outlook emails and contacts are .pst files on an external drive. Is there any way to convert and import them into Mac Mail and Address Book?
July 7th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Jason,
If you don’t have access to a PC, there are a few open source applications that should run in Mac OS X, but they may not work on all versions of .pst files. Check out:
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/
or:
http://outport.sourceforge.net/
Good luck to you.
Brad
July 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I looked at the ‘Freenet’ website to try to find the dbxconv to download, but the whole site is in German. I rambled around in it trying to find anything that looked like a download page, but was not successful. Is there another site in English, or does anyone know the page to select (in German) to get to the downloads?
July 15th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I’ll update my link in the post. Here’s the english site: http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/english/dbxconv.html
July 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Awesome tip!! Nice one.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Excellent tip. Works perfectly, stable even for very large mailboxes (1G). Fast too (less than 1 hour on the PC, only a few hours on the Mac). Thanks!
August 28th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! For some reason I thought the PC-Mac switch would be simple. How naive. This was one of my last hurdles. Can’t thank you enough.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
What a wonderful tool. You saved my butt and my sanity and now have my undying love.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Thanks for the instructions, like Hilary, this was my last hurdle.
Also thanks to dbxconv (sent him $20.00).
Loving my imac now!
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Similar to other users, email was my last item to switch from pc to mac. I thought I was doomed because mac help couldn’t advise on anything pc-related, then the Apple store erroneously advised that it was not possible to convert Outlook Express to mac mail…. Daunted but determined, I kept searching.
I used your steps 3-4 to convert Outlook Express .dbx files to .mbox files for mac mail, using the Ulrich Krebs dbx converter (I donated 10 euros).
Your instructions worked perfectly! I can’t thank you enough. Rest in peace, pc!
November 15th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Seriously? You’re my new hero.
November 18th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Ummm, so there’s a reason I’m switching to macBook… What is .pst archive and where can I find it?
November 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
And one more thing, I have Outlook not Outlook Express, will these instructions work nevertheless?
November 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
First, many thanks for this post. I just tried it, and everything seemed fine until I got into Mail.app. When I did the import in Mail, I could see the message subjects being read, but after it finished, the two mboxes I imported are empty. Any ideas?
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I think I found the answer in a different set of directions (http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3059). If imported mailboxes are initially empty, do Mailbox -> Rebuild.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I followed all of the steps, but when I went to check the imported emails all I got were the folders without any messages in them…any suggestions?
February 11th, 2008 at 2:36 am
how about dbx to pst for outlook 2003
February 14th, 2008 at 8:34 am
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February 16th, 2008 at 7:30 am
what if a user wanting to bring pst into mbox for archival no longer has a PC or DOS or Windows just a Mac with OSX and a bunch of .pst files?
what options exist for those of us who don’t have PC’s or Windows but a bunch of data we need to archive in a format that is readable using open standards based protocols?
February 19th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Bambi,
You can create a .pst in Outlook and it will ask you where you want to save it to… As to your second question, Outlook Express should be a free download from Microsoft. I believe you will need Outlook Express to pull this off.
Julie,
Yes, I’ve seen this happen before, but I can’t remember exactly how I fixed it. If I were you, I’d try creating a smaller .pst with a subset of your messages and then re-run “DbxConv” on the smaller .pst. If that works, I’d try a larger block of messages.
Rhonda,
Yes, the instructions begin with Outlook 2003 and then the messages are moved to Outlook Express. You will still need to get Outlook Express to pull this off.
JC,
Check out my comment to Jason above:
http://www.schwie.com/brad/?p=22#comment-3277
Brad
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Thank you for this tip!!! I tried for hours to make this work, and I found this posting. You saved me!!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Thanx!
It works!
March 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hello!
Thank you for this!
I have just one question: will this trick work also with Outlook 2007?
thank you
March 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I tried item 2, file-import -messages- outlook and pick main identity as the mailbox because it was the only one that showed up. It found this location C:\Documents and Settings\Reid\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{EA866AC4-42A6-4B13-A8F6-02EAA5F29683}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ but I got this message “The specified message store could not be opened. It may be in use by outlook express” when I picked “next”. That’s as far as I got. Any help?
April 7th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article How to convert .pst archives, to .dbx, to .mbox files for use with Mail on Mac OS X, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Reid,
Did you get the error message from the utility “dbxconv”? Did you try quitting Outlook and Outlook Express before running “dbxconv”?
Aaron,
What part weren’t you understanding? I can try to clarify, but if you follow it step by step, it should get you there…
Brad
May 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Okay, I’m almost computer illiterate and I don’t understand the above. I would like to move my E-Mail messages from a PC (Win ’98) to a new IMac and Apple Care doesn’t seem to know how to do it and my server doesn’t do IMAP accounts, so I’m at a loss here. I kind of need to know every step, what to click, etc. If anyone has the time and heart to help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Will your tips still work with the new mac system? I have a macbook pro coming in next week.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Claire,
Yes, the process still works for me with Leopard. Good luck.
Brad
May 27th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Brad:
Thanks a lot! We’re waiting for the arrival of our brand-new iMac and your post should help ease the transition for those hardcord OE users that live here and are slaves to an obsolete Dell machine!
June 21st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Thank you for the blog entry and the link to libpst (readpst). The link to outport was somewhat pointless since it only runs on windows, quote from site:
“Less of an issue and more of a design limitation… Outport interacts with Outlook via it’s OLE interface. Outport doesn’t know anything at all about the underlying .pst file. It can’t open arbitrary .pst files and, since I have no desire at all to try to reverse engineer the .pst format, probably never will.”
My problem using libpst is that I am using outlook 2003 pst file. I may have to install a windows virtual machine for this one =/
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 am
Krzee,
Even though you have an Outlook 2003 .pst file, libpst/readpst could still be helpful for you if you are able to convert the 2003 .pst back to a 97-2002 .pst. Here’s how: on the PC running Outlook 2003, create an Outlook 2002 compatible .pst file using the File, New, Outlook Data File command, and then choose “Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File (.pst)” as the storage type. Drag all your message and folders from the 2003 .pst archive to the 97-2002 archive.
You’re right, unless you have access to a PC with Outlook installed, Outport won’t be very helpful.
Brad
June 29th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I have the .dbx files on the PC side of MAC (bootcamp) from dead dell PC if I download the ‘converter’ from ‘krebs’ how do i get it to work and convert?? I don’t have outlook express or outlook on the PC side. I want to convert and have the eMails on MacMail on the Mac side.
June 29th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Larry,
In Bootcamp on your Mac, run the dbx conversion in step #3.
Brad
July 8th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Okay, I have some huge PST files on CD (from my PC Outlook). However, I no longer have the PC. How do I convert them to MBOX files using a mac. All the software I can find, uses a PC, which I do NOT have.
PLEASE HELP,
Alex
July 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Alex,
I haven’t tried it yet, but you may want to give this plugin for Thunderbird a shot:
http://obm.aliasource.org/doku.php?id=projects:pst_import&s=pst
Looking at the source code for this plugin, it appears you may need to use Windows or Linux to get it to work, but I’m not sure. From Thunderbird it is very easy to get the converted messages back to Mail.app for Mac OS X…
Brad
July 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
i dont know how to do step 3, i dont know what to type in the cmd window. i just typed “dbxconv -mbx *.dbx”
i dont understand what you mean by navigate ….
July 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The command prompt defaults to something like the root of your C: drive. If your .dbx exists on the desktop, you should navigate to the desktop where your .dbx file exists using something like:
dir “Documents and Settings”
dir “All Users”
dir username
dir desktop
Once the command prompt is displaying the same directory as the .dbx and the dbxconv script (put both on the desktop), you can use the line you were trying to use before.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I’m getting everything in individual folders, but I have many subfolders (some with the same names). Anyway to import everything as it was subfoldered in Outlook Express? Thanks for the info though it was great.
I actually copied my outlook express folder to the C drive which made it much easier to navigate to in dos and created a backup as well.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:41 am
One other note to Alex’s post (above)… It looks like Emailchemy can handle .pst archives as well. I haven’t tested it, but if you have $30 to spare, try out:
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/index.html
September 18th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
When I try to run the dbx command on the dos prompt I keep getting an error message – “not recognised as internal or external command, operable file or batch file”. I do have the dbxconv.exe and my dbx files in the same directory and am in it when in dos whne I try this command. Outlook and Outlook express are closed too. Help!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Janet, It sounds like you may need to make the .exe executable. I’d try googling this… Brad
October 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
HELP – I have followed all of the suggestions above (thank you!) and have created a directory of .mbox files. When I ask Mac Mail to import, it only seems to want to import the last mailbox (and not all of them). Any suggestions? David
October 31st, 2008 at 7:12 am
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December 17th, 2008 at 3:30 am
this worked like a charm for me! thanks a million Schwie!
December 20th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I have never used dos. I want to transfer all my mail to another who uses Mac. to look after a project while I’m away for a few weeks. I run Windows XP home addition. Here’s what I’ve done. I copied all my dbx files to a folder on drive D. I have downloaded and unzipped Dbxconv and put it in the same folder as the dbx files. I went to start>all programs > accessories> command prompt. when I open the DOS box it reads C:\ Documents and Settings\Glenn Gibb. When I type in dbxconv -mbx *.dbx I just get a message ‘dbxconv is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file’
I tried start>run >dbxconv.exe and get a message windows cannot find dbxconv.exe
What am I missing??
Thank you
Glenn Gibb
December 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Ignore my previous post . I moved the dbx files into docs and settings/glenn gibb and it worked slick as a whistle
December 27th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Does this also work with converting PC Outlook Express address books to Mac address book? If so, how?
January 1st, 2009 at 7:43 am
I feel really stupid but I haven’t been able to find the DBXConv at the page everyone is suggesting because everything is in german… I tried to find the english page someone suggested months ago in this forum but I still go to the german site… From where can I download the converter????? Gaby
January 1st, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Gaby,
I found it here (go to bottom of page for zip file).
My situation:
I bought a new iMac and planned to keep it and the PC but the PC died suddenly. I have 2.3 Gb of precious Outlook email on the PC.
I’m using a friend’s laptop Win XP computer to do Steps 1, 2 and 3 above.
YOU NEED TO HAVE OUTLOOK INSTALLED WHEN YOU DO STEP 2 (Importing the PST archive file into Outlook Express).
I did not have Outlook installed and got an error message (“cannot open MAPI file”). Microsoft has a help article on importing PST files into Outlook. They say you need to have Outlook installed because Outlook EXPRESS uses some files from Outlook in the conversion. When I installed Outlook, the error message dissapeared and I was able to locate my PST archive file, open it in Outlook Express and IMPORT the complete PST file.
After that I found the DBX files location in Outlook Express (Step 3) – however, whebn I tried to follow the path to the files in My Computer, there was no folder listing for the “\Local Settings\ part of the path.
SOLUTION: In Outlook Express, go to ‘Tools->Options->Maintenance->Store Folder and change the Stored Folder to a New Folder. Once you quit Outlook Express and re-start, it will transfer all the DBX files to the new (simple) location you specified. That is how I found the DBX files finally!
I just completed this and downloaded and opened (with Stuffit) the DBXCONVERT file but now I see in Step 3 that you need to RUN A DOS COMMAND from a DOS WINDOW. So it is back to the PC for me.
Looking forward to Step 4 and finally getting rid of my PC forever!
– redking
January 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
DbxConv – DBX to MBOX converter by Ulrich Krebs
http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/english/dbxconv.html
(here is the link)
January 1st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
“MAPI error messages when you import or export messages in Outlook Express”
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179637
(Microsoft Help and Support Article)
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I just completed step 4 and am now back at my iMac. The ‘.mbox’ files imported ok into Mail. Now all I need to do is sort them all!
Thanks to this article I now have all my Outlook email. Without it, I’d be starting from scratch.
Thanks Schwie!
January 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Thank you for the tip on transferring e-mails from outlook express to Mac mail using DBXCONV. I was wondering if there is any easy way of transferring GROUPS of e-mail addresses to Mac mail. I have looked and looked to no avail. I would really appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I recommend setting up a Gmail account, syncing the address book on the PC to Gmail, and then sync the Mac to the Gmail contacts. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can add the ability for your Mac to sync its addresses with Gmail:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/05/29/enable_google_contact_sync_without_an_iphone_or_ipod_touch-2.html
Or, export the addresses from Outlook to vcard files and Address Book will pull these right in.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Thanks man!
April 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I was able to export all my Outlook mail to OE and then converted those dbx files to mbx and then renamed the folders to mbox and imported them into mac mail. Everything went very well, i did lose about 50 mails along the way when importing to OE. The main challenge I encountered….i had a folder in my mail box called pending, which had about 2000 mails in it, and mac mail did not pull those in during the import. It listed 3 folders only, inbox, sent, and deleted.
Any ideas why this happened and what i can do to fix it? I tried renaming that problem file from pending.mbox to inbox.mbox but that did not work.
April 18th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Charles,
I’m guessing that your Mac actually DID import it, you’re just not seeing it. Look below your Inbox and other folders that were imported in Mail.app. There should be a folder called “Imported” at the bottom. Expand the folder and you should see your “Pending” folder. Please let us know if this works.
Brad
April 19th, 2009 at 6:04 am
My Mac imported the Inbox, Deleted, and Sent box only and placed it in the Imported Folder it created under On My Mac. What is interesting is that during the import the Pending box is not appearing as a list of boxes that can be imported. I tried it again last night. I then thought that the Pending conversion got screwed up, so i re-ran that last night and tried to import it this morning, and received the following “Error – No valid mbox files were found”
July 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Truly amazing. Everything works as described. Even attachments in messages converted over. I highly recommend using DOS prompt to convert mbx to mbox files – what a time saver!
August 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am
STOKED. Thank you. The only snag I ran into was the hidden nature of some of the PC folders inside /Identities/, but once I moved the .dbx files to somewhere visible, all is well and its all Mac from here
January 9th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I wasn’t able to get these instructions to work with Outlook 2007. I got all the *.mbox files generated on my windows vm (using fusion) and imported into imail as separate mailboxes. all the messages come over, but when i try to click on the imported messages, the content isn’t available. it’s like the headers are there but the bodies aren’t. anybody had success converting outlook 2007 PST files?
March 24th, 2010 at 6:10 am
Brad – been trying to use Dbxconvert without success – following steps but in dos I get ‘nothing to do’ as a response when I type in dbxconv -mbx *.dbx. Dbxconvert and copy of outlook express dbx folder are both on the desktop. Any advice? I’ve also tried renaming the oe dbx folder by dropping the .dbx suffix. I’ve also had a dos response – dbxconv isn’t recognised as a command, operable program or batch file.
Is there another option for me to convert my outlook express mail version 6 for us with a new imac using Mail v 4.2?
Thanks
David
March 24th, 2010 at 7:03 am
Ignore my last message Brad – I managed to sort out the transfer – it was partly me but also I found I could only get the conversion to happen if I kept things simple in dos and used the C:\Documents and Settings\my name location – anywhere else and I couldn’t get anything to work! I also followed the instructions elsewhere on this blog to import the mbx files into Mail on my mac through a networked shared folder with my PC, create a new mailbox in the import folder and then rebuild the mailbox – as my first try showed I had messages and details of who sent them and when but no content. Needless to say I only converted copies and have kept the original files on my PC. Thanks to everyone for their contributions to this task.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Awesome walkthough! Made my life a whole lot easier. Thanks so much for the info!
June 11th, 2010 at 6:34 am
I have this problem but my dbx files are from an old Mac Outlook Express, and now I would convert those files into Mac mail…Could you help me?
Thanks in advance,
Ainhoa
June 15th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Hi, I`m trying to follow the process but I cannot find the dbx program If I type on google the closest thing seems to be this http://domain.freenet.de/index.html
but then I`m lost
Hope that someone can help
Thanks a lot
August 26th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Thanks a ton, really, this is great help.
I would like to add for those users who use pst files from Outlook 2007 or 2010.
Find a machine with Outlook 2003 and import the pst from Outlook 2007 and do as instructed above.
And you can find dbx converter at http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/dbxconv/dbxconv.html with full instructions. Have used it.
November 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
If you don’t have access to a PC anymore, there’s a program (PstExporter) that runs entirely on Mac and does all the work. It converts mails and contacts.
It’s really easy to use. Check it out at http://www.arrowbit.com/info/pstexporter
December 6th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Absolutely awesome. Advise left 4+ years ago works perfect up to now (I’m on Mac Leopard Snow)
December 14th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Url to Software dbxconv 1.3.3
http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/dbxconv/dbxconv.html
best regards
March 7th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Thank you, thank you. Or in the vernacular, Mahalo Nui Loa.
My first Mac and I am thrilled to finally wean myself off Outlook. Thanks to your help, was able to make transition pretty painlessly.
Aloha,
March 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 am
I love you Man! Thank you so much. I can at last remove Microsoft from my life…
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:22 pm
hi,
i think i’ve followed all the advice and dragged all my dbx from Outlook Express into a file that contained dbxconverter. The DOS prompt worked and the window showed all the mailboxes and their names and the number of messages being converted but when i tried to import the etmbox file that was created to the Mac (OSX Lion) only one file was imported, the last in alphabetical order, but none of the other 20 odd ones the DOS window had shown listed.
Does anyone have an idea of what might have happened or of what i did wrong?
thanks in advance
laurence
February 13th, 2012 at 5:16 am
Thanks for this. Just moved all my emails over from Outlook Express on old PC to Mail on new iMac and worked perfectly. I downloaded dbxconv from link ok, but it wouldn’t open. However, I dragged it into the folder containing the .dbx files, dropped each .dbx folder into dbxconv and it converted files to .mbx. Renamed all files .mbox, copied them to portable drive and plugged into iMac. Then imported into Mail as outlined above, i.e., go to ‘File>Import Mailboxes’, select ‘Files in mbox format’, locate files on portable drive and off you go. Thanks again for all the help and advice given here.
December 5th, 2013 at 3:53 am
Great article post on converting. Thank you for sharing this.