In Outlook 2011, your Identity was located in Documents > Microsoft User Data folder. If you run into issues post a comment and we will be happy to assit. The process here is simple and for the sake of this article I will not rewrite the great instructions you can find here at Apples own website.įollow the steps on this page and you should be ok.
In order for this to work you should disable all security and antivirus software that may detect viruses during file copy.
After some further digging the reason that the migration failed was the fact that I had a very agressive antivirus program running on the target computer Mac that was blocking the copy due to viruses found in the mail profile folder. I will preface this bit by saying that this failed for me twice. For example, contacts are in the navigation pane on the People tab, email messages are on the navigation pane on the Mail tab, calendar items are in the navigation pane on the Calendar tab, and so on. Imported items appear on the navigation panes (Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, Notes) under On My Computer.olm file on your Mac, and then click Import.
olm file is the data file used by Outlook for Mac to archive your email messages, contacts, calendar items, tasks, and notes. To import an OLM file on a Mac follow these stepsĪ. Now that your files are exported, time to import them. Once your data has been exported, you’ll get a notification and you’ll choose Finish. In the Save As box, under Favorites, choose the Downloads folder, and click Save.
The new location is not well documented, and I stumbled upon it on an obscure forum post, the location is ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile In Outlook 2016 for Mac, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom, has changed the default location of the email profile folder. I wanted to share my info in the event that it helps someone out there.
I recently had to help a client move from one Mac to another, during the process one task proved more challenging than originally anticipated.