Upgrading to Office 2011 + OSX 10.8 ?

[Chiefcrowe]

I have a laptop with OSX 10.6 right now and the very old Office 2004. What I want to do is transfer to a new laptop with OSX 10.8 and since Office 2004 won't run on it, also upgrade to Office 2011.

This is what I'm planning to do:

1. Backup just in case something goes wrong
2. Verify the Entourage database
3. Install Office 2011 and then all of the updates
4. Import emails from Entourage to Outlook 2011
5. Then transfer all data/settings to the new laptop with OSX 10.8 using the migration wizard

Does this sound right?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

More or less.

Notwithstanding the backup, I'd probably do the migration assistant first, then install Office '11.

If you're using IMAP folders or Exchange, you don't need to mess with emails/importing/etc.

 

[Eug]

Which laptop? Not all of them can take 10.8.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks. I think it's a 2010 macbookpro, and they already installed 10.8 on it before i got it.

I'm using pop, so i will need to import.

So, if I do the migration assistant first and get all the data onto the new laptop, I can install office on it and then run the email import even though Office 2004 doesn't work with OSX 10.8?

More or less.

Notwithstanding the backup, I'd probably do the migration assistant first, then install Office '11.

If you're using IMAP folders or Exchange, you don't need to mess with emails/importing/etc.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

So, if I do the migration assistant first and get all the data onto the new laptop, I can install office on it and then run the email import even though Office 2004 doesn't work with OSX 10.8?

Well, I was referring specifically to IMAP folders or Exchange - the mail is all (typically) stored on the server anyway. You'll just re-download it from there so the computer can maintain its local cached copy. (You don't actually need to migrate anything.)

My (limited) experience with Migration Assistant (I can't afford to buy new macs that often, lol) is that it will migrate over your user data from ~/Library and ~/Documents (Including the Office DB and email profiles) even though it will dispose of the incompatible Office 2004 binaries. Outlook 2011 will then import your Entourage data fine.

See tutorial here:

http://www.northeastern.edu/infoservices/?page_id=6308

 

[Tegeril]

Well, I was referring specifically to IMAP folders or Exchange - the mail is all (typically) stored on the server anyway. You'll just re-download it from there so the computer can maintain its local cached copy. (You don't actually need to migrate anything.)

My (limited) experience with Migration Assistant (I can't afford to buy new macs that often, lol) is that it will migrate over your user data from ~/Library and ~/Documents (Including the Office DB and email profiles) even though it will dispose of the incompatible Office 2004 binaries. Outlook 2011 will then import your Entourage data fine.

See tutorial here:

http://www.northeastern.edu/infoservices/?page_id=6308

POP can be configured in a number of different ways (delete on deletion locally, delete immediately, never delete, delete after x days, etc). Advising that one of those is the only way it could have occurred could lead someone to make a significant mistake. The emails in the inbox could be the only copy of them anywhere at this point.

Importing will hopefully be that easy as Migration Assistant is pretty great and the Office importer tool is straightforward (and that link explains it well).

 

[dave_the_nerd]

POP can be configured in a number of different ways (delete on deletion locally, delete immediately, never delete, delete after x days, etc). Advising that one of those is the only way it could have occurred could lead someone to make a significant mistake. The emails in the inbox could be the only copy of them anywhere at this point.

Importing will hopefully be that easy as Migration Assistant is pretty great and the Office importer tool is straightforward (and that link explains it well).

Well, if he's using POP, then he's not using IMAP or Exchange, is he? :biggrin:

I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Actually there are several POP accounts and 1 IMAP.
not worried about the imap one but I need to make sure all the pop email is transferred over.

So, I am planning to install outlook 2011 on the old laptop, input all the email accounts for creating the profile and then migrate from Entourage 2004. Then once I make sure that is working, I will transfer all the data/settings to the new laptop with 10.8.