Paul, you have thought through the ramifications of this in far more detail than I did! Actually, it does not really affect me, since I have chosen not to make any further changes to any scripts I did for E2001, so I don't use it in Classic. The only time I use OS 9 now is on my laptop, with my USB hard drive attached and then networked to my iMac running OS X. It's the only way I can access that damn hard drive. So, while I am at home, my laptop becomes a file server.
Note to other readers: The problem with the MUD folder only affects people who install OS X 10.2 and then want to run Entourage 2001 in Classic mode. Other comments below. On or near 8/26/02 6:59 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > 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. > That is really dumb, isn't it. > 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. > Good observation! > 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. > As I recall, it was a limit on the number of subfolders, not a limit on scripts in a subfolder. 35 is the limit, all right. And the limit includes sub-sub-folders. So if you have 18 subfolders now, and you added an Entourage 2001 Scripts folder containing the same 18 folders, you'd be over the limit. Maybe you should try it to see if the limit still exists; they might have removed it without bothering to tell anyone (we should be so lucky). > 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. > I did that when I moved to my new iMac with the larger hard drive. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
