On 5/26/04 8:15 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If there were simply alternate locations where E-rage looked for its data > folder, then a savvy person who knows that a client will tend to want to > move the data folder, could pro-actively deal with this situation with no > communication to the user. For goodness' sake. just tell them not to move it. End of story. Who cares if they "want to" move it? Maybe they "want to" move their computer to the ceiling too. If they're savvy enough to understand aliases, they can use an alias. The whole point of having the data in the MUD folder in Documents is to prevent clueless users from accidentally overwriting their data as always happened when it was kept in the application's own folder, which was the usual method back in classic Mac. When you updated versions, and replaced or trashed the old version, you could easily lose all your data. The very first app I know of which ensured that wouldn't happen was OE 5.0.2, followed by its son and heir Entourage 2001. The idea to putting the MUD in the Documents folder was probably inspired by Windows. It was the obvious place to do it in OS 9. Now in OS X, a much more rational system, Apple has come up with a user folder's Application Support folder. That's now probably the best place for this sort of stuff, but MacBU thought of this before Apple, so they've stuck with user Documents folder for now, to avoid inconsistency when upgrading from X to 2004. Maybe in a later release, they'll change it. In the meantime, just tell your users to leave it be. They can just learn a few rules if they want to use particular apps such as Entourage. One of those rules is "Leave the MUD folder where it is, or put it anywhere you want and an alias in the correct location." If they care more about putting MUD somewhere else without an alias than they do about learning how it works, they don't deserve to have Entourage. They should use a dumbed-down app instead and not confuse their overtaxed brains. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
