On or near 8/21/01 3:35 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> As I am switching to using OS X more and more, I would like to move my Mac
> OS 9 Documents folder (blessed by the system) to my OS X Documents folder -
> that is, I want to move the entire folder, not its contents. However, I am
> concerned about the impact on Entourage and the other Office components
> should I do this. Will the existing Entourage and Office be able to find my
> Microsoft User Data folder if the Documents folder is no longer at the root
> level? Will this cause problems with upgrading to the OS X version of Office
> when it is released?
>
> Note: I still need to boot MacOS 9 to allow synchronization of Entourage
> with my Palm via IR.
>
> More generally, is there anything that we should or should not do to ease
> the transition to the OS X version of Entourage, which I assume will involve
> at a minimum creating a new Microsoft User Data folder in each users' home
> directory?
As you note, Entourage for X will certainly use the User's Documents->MUD
folder, which is where you say you want to move your current MUD folder.
My advice: Don't move it yet. You may, when E for X comes out, want to have
separate databases and separate Entourage Script Menu Items folders for a
while, so you can (if need be) switch back and forth. Having them in clearly
different locations will probably make that easier. Scripts that work in 9
don't necessarily work in X, and vice versa.
If you feel you must move your entire documents folder to another partition,
rather than moving it to the actual OSX User Documents folder, why not
create a folder of a different name in the "User->Username" hierarchy, and
place the contents of your existing Documents folder there. Then, on your
System 9 partition, make an alias to that folder and call it "Documents".
That seems to suffice for System 9.x. (System X isn't quite so happy to
accept an alias for Documents; I think you have to leave the real documents
folder and let it contain aliases to subfolders...).
Thus, if I have two partitions, OS9 and OSX, my hierarchy would look
something like this:
OS9:
-Documents (alias pointing to "9Documents" folder on OSX)
OSX:
-Users:
--Watson:
---9Documents: (folder containing previous contents of System 9 Documents
folder)
---Documents: (folder containing OSX documents)
This at least gets you into a setup where you can back up the "Users" or
"Watson" folder and get everything...yet it keeps the System 9 MUD folder
separate from the System X one. Once you switch over to the new Entourage
entirely, and import all your data, you can delete that from 9Documents.
You'll probably want to move the scripts, however, one by one, testing as
you go.
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