I downloaded the new Outlook 365 for the Mac, but I want to transfer all my Mac Outlook 2011 email data into it. It doesn't seem to think that there is any Outlook 2011 data on my computer, so I attempted to go into Outlook 2011 and export all email data to a "Mac Data File."

Unfortunately this procedure  crashes the program every time, without any message that a normal human being can interpret. So I'm stuck on Outlook 2011 right now, which has buggy smart folders.

I have tried rebuilding my identity from scratch in Outlook 2011 and it did nothing to solve the problem, except make my "Unread Emails" smart folder stop working (it no longer refreshes, and shows both read and unread emails and no new emails). So in trying to solve one problem I caused another.

I have no idea where to turn, and it is imperative that I preserve my email database at the very least.