I discovered a second Documents folder on my hard disk. One in the Office 2001 folder inside “Office.” The other at the top level of the hard disk which is the one Entourage is using. How can I safely delete the other folder?
Here’s what I think has happened:
The Documents folder at the root level is probably not a “blessed” folder, with a special ‘white sheet’ icon on it. Is it? My guess is that you made your own Documents folder before the recent Mac OS (since OS 8.5, I think) starting cresting these things. Therefore the OS never created one for you because you had one already. I had exactly the same situation once.
But the MS installers look for the special blessed version. If they don’t find it, they create one. But they couldn’t create one for you, since you already have a folder of the same name. When they can’t create one there, they make one in the Office 2001 folder, and that’s where they put the MUD folder.
First try this:
Move all the stuff currently in your root HD Documents folder into the Documents folder ion Office 2001. Everything. Then trash the empty HD Documents folder and empty the trash. Then move the Documents folder currently in Office 2001 to your HD root. See if that works for everything you do now.
If that Documents folder isn’t blessed (doesn’t have the white icon) after restarting your computer, you may still have some problems. If that’s the case, do this:
Quit all Office apps. Rename the Documents folder to “Docs – Extra” or anything. Go into Control panels – General Controls. Set the button in the “Documents” section to “Documents”. Restart your computer. You should now see a blessed Documents folder on your HD root. Move everything from “Docs - Extra” into the new Documents folder. Trash the empty “Docs – Extra” folder and empty the Trash. Start using Office apps. Open General Controls and set the Documents setting to wherever you like it.
Everything should be OK now.
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Paul Berkowitz
