Without going into a long story, we recently upgraded from a 2006 Mac Mini running Leopard to a 2009 Mini running Yosemite. My wife had an extensive (>20,000) collection of historically-significant (for her) AOL email messages. It was her way of keeping notes.

Unfortunately we can't open them in the latest iteration of AOL Desktop. These messages have the old pre-OS X creation goodies such as File Type = AOLM and File Creator of AOp3.

Is there a script or app somewhere that would easily convert these to either a plain text text or readable by current AOL? Any good tips would really be appreciated by my wife, who has her last 25 years of research tied up in those old messages. Thank you and here's hoping everyone has a safe and warm holiday season! @ simonsi: Thanks for checking in. Actually, yes I have used TE and it does read them, though they are filled with a lot of extra characters that I presume are formatting and other AOL-specific code. If we get stuck, I suppose I can take a week and go somewhere quiet and extract the text from all of those messages:-( and save them as plain text files.

Macs, for example, can use the Mail app to open and send AOL email. There are two ways to do this. One is to use POP, which fetches your messages for offline access so you can read all your new emails. Just paid and downloaded AOL mail tab for my MacBook Pro and when I click. To get the best AOL Mail experience, we recommend that you.

I can't even imagine a script that would be able to distinguish the actual parts we want saved (from, to, date, subject, body) from the garbage. That's why it would be best to be able to convert them. OP: Do you still have the OLD Mini, with the OLD AOL application?

The time to think about 'file translation' is BEFORE you move things to the new platform. If there is any way to get the old Mini running again, I'd suggest you set it up and see what options AOL offers insofar as exporting the old emails. Other than that, what was suggested above -- opening the individual emails with a text editing application, and literally 're-composing' them -- might be the only way. IF this is possible, just save the old emails 'as is'.

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It doesn't matter that they -all- need to be re-edited. What's more important is that you understand how to re-edit an individual message when necessary. Final thoughts: The latest release of 'LibreOffice' seems to have built-in translators that are able to read all sorts of older file formats (such as AppleWorks). I'm wondering if opening the old emails using LibreOffice might help? OP: Do you still have the OLD Mini, with the OLD AOL application?

The time to think about 'file translation' is BEFORE you move things to the new platform. If there is any way to get the old Mini running again, I'd suggest you set it up and see what options AOL offers insofar as exporting the old emails. Other than that, what was suggested above -- opening the individual emails with a text editing application, and literally 're-composing' them -- might be the only way. IF this is possible, just save the old emails 'as is'.

It doesn't matter that they -all- need to be re-edited. What's more important is that you understand how to re-edit an individual message when necessary. Final thoughts: The latest release of 'LibreOffice' seems to have built-in translators that are able to read all sorts of older file formats (such as AppleWorks). I'm wondering if opening the old emails using LibreOffice might help? Thanks to all.