Getting Outlook?s Calendar into iCal for the iPhone

As I understand it, iTunes for Windows allows you to sync your iPod - or more importantly (these days) your iPhone - with Outlook for contacts and calendar items. That seems well and good for Windows users I suppose, but not so for my co-worker and his new iPhone. (Unfortunately for him I’m [...]

published on Thursday, the 27. September 2007, apple-blog

Import Outlook invitations from different time zones

When you double-click Outlook invitation sent from a different time zone, the current version of iCal fails to identify your location and sets the calendar according to the time without respecting your time zone. You can get around this problem by first copying the meeting attachment and modifying the section labeled TZID. Then save the modified file and double-click it. It should now respect your time zone and set itself accordingly.

published on Wednesday, the 19. September 2007, macosxhints

Import Outlook Express (PC) emails into Mail

I tried this procedure with Outlook Express 6.0+, which uses .dbx files. Thunderbird (the latest available as of this posting) did not import anything at all. After reading other posts on the web, I used the free DbxConv to convert the .dbx files to .mbx files on the PC. I then copied these to OS X Tiger (on an Intel Mac), changed the extensions to .mbox, and then imported them into Mail (using the Other option). It worked quite well. [robg adds: I can't test this one, but it's a popular question. So if you try this, please comment here with the results -- how well did everything transfer into Mail?]

published on Friday, the 10. November 2006, macosxhints

Move mail from OS 9 Outlook Express to an Intel Mac

The problem:A friend has all his emails in Outlook Express on a G3 iMac running only Mac OS 9, and he wants to move them to his new Intel iMac. Unfortunately, Mail's import feature requires Outlook Express to be running. Thusly you need Classic, but Intel Macs don't have Classic. The solution: Part 1: Import from Outlook to MailOn a PowerPC Mac with Mac OS X, create a new user account, ImportUser, with admin privileges (System Preferences -> Accounts -> + button). Login as this user. After the importing, we will delete this account.Run Outlook Express in Classic (found in /Applications (Mac OS 9) -> Outlook Express 5.02 Folder -> Outlook Express) under this new user account to set up its initial directories, then quit Outlook.Copy the contents of /Documents -> Microsoft User Data from the Mac OS 9 computer to /Users -> ImportUser -> Documents -> Microsoft User Data on the PowerPC Mac OS X computer...

published on Wednesday, the 18. October 2006, macosxhints

Export-Import Entourage 1.3.10

A collection of over 50 scripts to export and import almost everything - Contacts, Groups, Calendar Events, Tasks, Notes, Messages, Folders, Accounts, Signatures, Mailing Lists and Categories - from one identity of Entourage X or 2004 to any other, to and from Entourage 2001, and to transfer Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes to and from other PIM programs on the Mac and Windows, with special converters for Microsoft OUTLOOK, Excel and other programs.

published on Sunday, the 1. October 2006, scriptbuilders

Automatically import Exchange events from Mail into iCal

My company uses Exchange as our mail and calendaring backend, and we rely heavily on Exchange - Outlook -Entourage's ability to send meeting notifications to invitees. I hate Entourage, so I use Apple's Mail and iCal. The only problem is that meeting invites do not always get parsed properly by Mail. Sometimes they show up as standard .ics files that I can double click to have them imported into iCal. Other times they show up as links to somewhere on the OWA (Outlook Web Access) server that don't resolve. Inspecting the email as raw source shows that the ICS data is actually in the email, it just isn't showing up right. So I wrote an AppleScript that will extract ICS data from an email, save it to a temp file, import it into iCal, then remove the temp file. I set this script as the action for a Mail rule of the form: Content-class -- Contains -- urn:content...

published on Wednesday, the 23. August 2006, macosxhints

Yet another Outlook contacts to Address Book solution

Here's yet another method of migrating your Outlook (on your PC) contacts to Address Book on a Mac. It's a bit of a workaround, but it's free. Download Thunderbird for the PC, and import your Outlook contacts into Thunderbird. Then export the contacts to a .ldif file on the PC. Transfer the .ldif file to your Mac and import the .ldif to Address Book. Done. [robg adds: There are many other hints (1 ? 2 ? 3 ? 4 ? 5 ? 6) h...

published on Friday, the 11. August 2006, macosxhints

Export-Import Entourage 1.3.9

A collection of over 50 scripts to export and import almost everything - Contacts, Groups, Calendar Events, Tasks, Notes, Messages, Folders, Accounts, Signatures, Mailing Lists and Categories - from one identity of Entourage X or 2004 to any other, to and from Entourage 2001, and to transfer Contacts, Calendar, Tasks and Notes to and from other PIM programs on the Mac and Windows, with special converters for Microsoft OUTLOOK, Excel and other programs.

published on Monday, the 6. February 2006, scriptbuilders