# Need help accessing an old Outlook database on a Mac

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-accessing-an-old-outlook-database-on-a-mac/259403
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 11, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-accessing-an-old-outlook-database-on-a-mac/259403 "2004-08-11T19:27:00Z")
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### Author: ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-accessing-an-old-outlook-database-on-a-mac/259403/1 "2004-08-11T19:27:00Z")

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I’ve got a G4 that’s running OS X.2. I need to access an old Outlook database from when it was running OS 9, and I can’t figure out how to do it. I can get the old Outlook running, but it’s lost its connection to the old users database, and I can’t get it to re-link to it. When I try to import the database, it says that it couldn’t import the data. What gives? Is there another way to access the old emails?