On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:55:21 -0500, Diane Ross wrote (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
>> There are several users on the list that should be able to help. I'm sure >> one will see your message and give you some help soon. > > A follow-up from Corentin who is away right. If only.... Any way, sorry for the delayed answer, but I was away for a while. > > " The answer is simple: > you can't do it (but I'll try to explain why). > Cheers, > Corentin" Let me go back to the original question: > I had been using E'rage X (US version), but I've just switched to E'rage > 2004-Jpn. The way I did this was rather roundabout: I booted up from my > backup external hard drive and there I installed my previously unused copy > of Office X-Jpn. Having done that, and determined E'rage X-Jpn it would not > simply open (or import) my database etc. from E'rage X-US, I renamed all the > files in my identity folder, using the Japanese equivalents. Having done > that, I was able to access the old identity from E'rage X-Jpn. Then I > installed my Office 2004-Jpn upgrade and imported the data from E'rage X-Jpn > into E'rage 2004-Jpn. This process seems to have brought over everything > from my previous identity except my mailing list rules, which I've had to > recreate manually. Yeah, that's about the only way you can do that, but since the files have different names, you cannot actually use the same files successively between the two versions. You have to rename them all the time (and even then, you may end up with problems in the differnet Office apps since some fields in some of these files have differnet names). I've tried to play around pretty much the same way between the French adn English versions of Office and finally gave up. The risk of having Word or Entoruage crash on me for unknown reasons made me conclude that it wasn't worth it. > > At this point I have two questions: > > 1. Is there an easier way of accomplishing this sort of switch? If so, I'd > like to use it if and when I decide to make the switch on my main system. > (What I've done on the external HD is sort of a dry run.) Nope... If the applications were built as multilangual packages (like MSN messenger is for isntance), all you'd have to do is switch the language of the system in your user account. Unfortunately that's not the case. > 2. What if I later decide I want to switch from E'rage 2004-Jpn to E'rage > 2004-US? Will I be able to access the Jpn identity info simply by switching > the names of the Jpn files to their English equivalents? You probably could, but I suspect you'd have to rename several files in the identity itself. It should be doable though. I *hope* that the developers have not used different field attribute in the identity files themselves between the two versions though :-( (that has been the case for pref files in previous versions of Office). > And if this is not the place for these questions, where else might I turn? Try the Mac newsgroups :-)) Corentin -- 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/>
