On 8/26/02 6:15 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is an Apple Knowledge base article that begins: > > TITLE > > Mac OS X 10.2: Some Classic Microsoft Applications Appear to Lose User > Settings and Information > Article ID: > Created: > Modified: 106970 > 8/16/02 > 8/22/02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > TOPIC > > > After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2, Classic Microsoft applications that store > information in the Microsoft User Data folder may appear to have lost user > preferences and other information, including mail messages. This includes > Microsoft Office 2001 and Outlook Express 5. > > The article can be found at: > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106970> Interesting. Thanks, Allen. There is a silly line that states: 'This affects certain Microsoft applications that rely on the Microsoft User Data folder and that run in the Classic environment. These include: * Office 2001 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) * Outlook Express 5.0 or later In fact, neither Word, Excel nor PowerPoint 2001 use the MUD folder at all (though they should). The X versions do use it for temporary files, but the 2001 versions don't. ENTOURAGE 2001 uses it, as we all know, and the article says nothing about Entourage., Someone should tell them. The article also says: "Important: In the event that you subsequently start up the computer from Mac OS 9 and open the affected Microsoft applications, the software will expect the Microsoft User Data folder to be in its original location. " In fact, all you have to do is to put an alias of the real MUD folder in the old location in the root (OS 9) Documents folder and all will be well when you boot into OS 9. BUT: NOW, what are those of us who use both Entourage X and Entourage 2001 to do? (I use 2001 for testing scripts.) we can't have two folders called Microsoft User Data" in the same user Documents folder. Nor can we put a file (an alias) of the same name into the same location as a folder of that name, or two different aliases of the same name either. We can't put _all_ the contents of the 2001 folder into the X folder: although the two 'Office 2001 Identities' and 'Office X Identities' folders can indeed co-exist, we can't have two separate folders called 'Entourage Script Menu Items' or 'Entourage Sound Sets'. It's OK to have one 'Saved Attachments' folder; maybe one sound sets folder will work too. I think the only solution for scripts will be to rename my 2001 scripts folder 'Entourage 2001 Scripts' as a subfolder within the other 'Entourage Script Menu Items Folder' and to remember to use that one hen in Classic or OS 9. I'll also have to remove keyboard shortcuts there that conflict. Yucch. But I think you once found, Allen, that there was a limit to the number of scripts in a subfolder - right? Wasn't it 35 or something like that? No good. I think I'd better just leave the 2001 MUD where it is and only use Entourage 2001 when booting from OS 9. Too bad: that's a real bother. Those of you without Office v. X who are still using Entourage 2001 in Classic in OS 10.2 don't have to worry about this. Just move the MUD to your OS X User Documents folder, and make an alias (option-command-drag) in your OS 9 Documents folder, and it will work whether you're in Classic or booted in OS 9. One thing that will be nice is maybe I'll move all my documents now directly into my OS X User Documents folder. At the moment, they're all still in in OS 9 Documents folder, with an alias of that in my OS X User Documents folder - an extra layer I can now get rid of. -- Paul Berkowitz -- 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/>
