file conversion help to OSX from Windows?

[elaine]

Hey All

I have a friend you who is having difficulty converting files. I'm an idiot when it comes to this kind of thing. I know you Mac lovers out there may be able to help. Any ideas? Thanks!


"I was not told abt the difficulty of reading/converting "msg" files
when making the conversion to OSX from WIndows. Any ideas? The Mac
Store is stumped. The situation is as follows:

I've numerous "msg" files in documents which cannot be read. I've
iWork 08 installed. Some of the discussion forums that I've read say
to convert the "msg" file to a "eml" file. Not sure how to do this...
that is if it works. There's some doubt abt it."

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

What is a ".msg" file? I have no idea.

 

[Scottch]

.msg is usually a message file generated from Outlook (an email).

There may be some converters that change your mail program to something that the Mac can use.

This site has some information: http://www.avtechpulse.com/opensource/email.html

Scottch

 

[elgarak]

I have a nagging suspicion that the .msg files (emails) are embedded in MS Office documents. That means that their content is not really part of the Office file, just a 'link' to the original email. They cannot be opened on the Mac since the original emails are not there. If I'm correct, your friend is SOOL; the files would only open on the original machine which also has the emails in an application that supports the embedding (i.e. Outlook).

[As fas as stand-alone .msg files are concerned, there should be no problem to open them with Mail, or an open-source email client like Thunderbird.] EDIT: Sorry, I got that wrong. Confused some formats.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Download OpenOffice for the Mac and try opening the files. If they are valid Word docs, they should load.

 

[elaine]

Thanks Scrut, elgarak, scottch