Hi Bill,
Try mounting the PowerBook as a shared volume on your desktop machine,
then copy the Main Identity from the desktop to the PB. ("pushing" it to
the PB, as opposed to mounting the desktop machine from the powerbook, and
"pulling" it over). Usually, the Finder will happily oblige and copy
something from the machine it's running on to another machine, but it's more
likely to refuse if you're trying to copy from a remote machine.
You should at least be able to move the Main Identity folder on the
PowerBook to another location.
Here's a thought also: can you boot with only the default extensions?
Maybe the Microsoft stuff that pops up reminders and whatnot has those files
open?
> I'm about to leave on a trip, and I want to take my entire Entourage
> calendar, address book and saved email messages with me. Easy, says the
> documentation: just copy the Main Identity folder from your desktop machine
> to your PowerBook.
>
> Unfortunately, however, two apparently independent problems prevent me from
> doing this: (1) I can't copy the desktop machine's Main Identity into the
> Microsoft User Data folder on the PowerBook because an alert tells me the
> PowerBook's Main Identity is currently in use (even though no Microsoft
> applications are running on the PowerBook). (2) I can't copy the desktop
> machine's Main Identity onto the PowerBooks' desktop because an alert tells
> me the desktop Machine's "database" file is in use and can't be read (even
> though no Microsoft applications are running on the desktop machine).
>
> Is there a solution?
>
> I cannot live with a calendar and addressbook program that prohibits me from
> taking my current data with me on trips. Indeed, I am amazed to think that
> anybody can live with this constraint. I hope I'm missing something.
>
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> Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
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