Good points Dan. Since you are just using Mac OS supplied libraries for the API to the Internet Config settings, it looks like there may likely be an OS problem. That is assuming there was correct data in this thread earlier where an individual had to shut Entourage down before closing IE to make sure that the IE prefs got saved.
I figured that the identities issue would be complex and the sharing of data in the database is usually great. To give you a little insight into the operational environment we have at my house (and maybe many others) I offer the following. We have one Mac that all of the family members use. Each has their own identity for Entourage purposes. (We have not found any need to use the multi-user capability offered by the OS yet.) Try as I might, I have not succeeded in getting the other family members to quit application when they are done (they think that closing the main window does the trick -- at least I have been able to remove the close box from the Entourage main window). So I often find multiple Office applications running in the background when I go to switch identities to view my mail. The usual sign is that the identity switcher window does not come up when I start entourage. But of course I then have to shut it down again and go quit all the apps running in the background before I can restart. I occasionally run into problems from the other side also: I am creating a document in Word and decide to grab some information from my contacts database. However my wife was the last one to use Entourage so it is her identity that is active. So I have to save my document, quit Word, start Entourage, switch identities, quit Entourage, restart Word, open my document, and then get the information I wanted. Going to our paper address book and retyping is often easier. So as you can see, although we are multi-user, we are sequential multi-user not parallel and each user does little or no multi-tasking. So the safeguards built into the identity switching mechanism do not apply to most of what we do. Maybe the architecture could be extended without a lot of trouble to have a shared contact list for environments like mine. Of course I'm sure somebody else will then ask for a shared calendar too. It might be like opening Pandora's box. :-) Thanks for the great Office Suite on the Macintosh. With the voices I hear on this list, you will never run out of ideas for future enhancement. Jim > From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:53:25 -0800 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Address autofill > > I want to add a couple of points. > > I agree that IE is storing stuff in Internet Config that it shouldn't be. > We will try to do better in the future. > > We never "lock" the file. We go through the regular Internet Config APIs > and never touch the file directly. I think there are some strange issues > with Internet Config on OS X, which we don't fully understand yet. I > suspect there are some Apple bugs here, but I don't know for sure. > > As for the switching identities issue -- it's complex. What if you've got a > modal dialog up in Entourage when you try to switch identities from Word? > What if there are unsaved documents? It has been something we've wanted to > address, but the cost hasn't been worth the benefit. > > We have a very robust system for sharing data that's stored in the database, > and there are never any "last app wins" issues in changing the data. > Internet Config may be a different story, but that's a bit out of our hands. > > Dan -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
