Importing Entourage 2008 mailboxes into Mail.app loses message flags

I'm in the process of migrating my data from Entourage 2008 to Mail, iCal and Address Book. The problem is that when I use Mail.app's built-in import from Entourage feature, the messages lose their flag status (read, unread, replied, forwarded, etc) in Mail.app. Does anyone know of a way to preserve this information? Cheers

Well there are some suggested solutions on here if you search for them. Hoever, I eventually worked around it by just importing a section of my old email at a time. A bit tedious, but it worked.

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Trying to drag Entourage folders to desktop then import as an mbox file (Mail doesn't recognize valid data)
Checked and installed any software updates, rebuilt permissions again, restarted
Ran Microsoft Autoupdate, I'm up to date
Tried doing it under Safe Boot
Checked the available disk space -- 360GB, plenty of room
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One thing to make sure when you are importing is that Entourage has to be running when you do the import.

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Congratulations on the purchase of your iPad!
In the Mail app on your iPad - you do have to click on the Account (ie. iCloud, Gmail, etc.) in order to see the Sent, Junk, Drafts and any subfolders you've created.
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I am trying to import all my Entourage mailboxes into Mail.
[The background of this is that I want to upgrade to Lion, but my version of Office won't work in Lion and I don't want to pay for a new version, so I'm going to abandon Entourage and use Mail].
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However when I look at the Mail mailbozes, all teh messages are not there. The import has worked up to a point and then just stopped. By this I mean all the actual mailboxes (and sub mailboxes) are in place, tbut only the first 50% or so of the messages are there. (Admitedly, there are a large number of mesages in my mailboxes and the import has worked through them logically by alpahbetical order of mailboxes.)
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