This was posted about a week ago, with no response as yet. I believe it's
serious enough that project archiving should be done with great caution.
The abbreviated sequence of events that led me to this conclusion are:
* Attempted to archive a project with 2 emails and 4 files
* Archive began looping and Entourage had to be 'force quit'
* Associated files could not be moved or deleted by the Finder
(In fact, the Finder had to be restarted when it was attempted)
* DiskWarrior could not repair the directory
* Disk Utility reported the limit of 100 nested folders was exceeded
* TechTool Pro identified the nested files as multiple copies of
the project files from Entourage
* Disk format, and system rebuild resulted.
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James
On 8/9/04 7:40 AM, "James Tummins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An attempt to archive a small project with two emails and four files led to
> reformatting my disk, reinstalling Mac OS X, and all applications. I say
> 'led' because I don't know it was the cause. But what I've collected and am
> reporting here seems to link the events.
>
> Including the associated files in the archiving process, and possibly the
> target location, is significant in this failure; I have been able to archive
> projects that contain only email messages (no associated files) without
> problems.
>
> Given the potential (or in my case, actual) consequences, I've tried to
> provide as much documentation as possible. I have written a document of
> about 1200 words describing everything I captured, and would like to get it
> to the Mac developer at Microsoft. It includes:
>
> - Project contents and operating environment
> - Archive process and events, including the options used
> - File system diagnostics
> - Disk Warrior
> - Disk Utility
> - TechTool Pro
> - Remedy
> - Conclusion, speculations, and a request
>
> Is anyone interested in helping with this? I'm happy to send or post the
> full report.
>
> The application and processing environment included:
>
> * Office 2004 was installed, with Entourage 2004 running. I don't
> recall if any other Office applications were running.
> * Mac OS X 10.3.4 was installed
> * The machine is a Dual 1.8 GHz G5 with 1.5GB of memory
>
> --
> James
>
>
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