I wanted to share my info in the event that it helps someone out there.

In Outlook 2016 for Mac, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom, has changed the default location of the email profile folder.

The new location is not well documented, and I stumbled upon it on an obscure forum post, the location is.

I then mounted the drive of the old Mac onto the new Mac via the cable and copied it over manually.

For the sake of completeness, I will do a quick writeup of the other methods of migration that were recommended by Microsoft directly in the event that this method fails for whatever reason for my readers.

You can export your email, contacts, calendars, tasks, or notes to the.olm archive file.

If youre moving from one Mac to another or upgrading from Outlook for Mac 2011 to Outlook 2016 for Mac, youll want to export your email messages, contacts, calendar items, tasks, and notes to a.olm file first (How do I export to a.olm file).

Note the location where you save the.olm file because youll need it during the import process.

If moving from one Mac to another, transfer the.olm file to the new one.

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.

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.

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.

If you run into issues post a comment and we will be happy to assit.

Identities are now called Profiles in Office for Mac 2016 (now available in preview).

Your profile is no longer stored in Documents but in your Users Library folder.

Under Go in the Menu bar hold down the Option key and youll see the Library.

As recommended above visit Finding the User Library Folder to show your Users Library.

Once the folder on the target Mac is replaced the email should immediately load.

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