On 10/6/05 4:31 AM, "Larry Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 10/6/05 1:45 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> It may well be that the preponderance of the MUD's files cold be seen as
>> "support" files that should now be in ~/Library/Application Support/, rather
>> than ~/Documents. Apple didn't create an Application Support subfolder until
>> OS X. It could also be argued that most of the files in the NUD, including
>> the identity databases but maybe excluding scripts, really are documents:
>> Entourage messages, contacts, events, tasks, etc. may be stored in its own
>> database but they really are documents every bit as much as a Word document.
>> nevertheless, I'd expect that sooner or later, a new major version of office
>> might move some or all of the MUD to ~/Library/Application Support/.
> 
> That's bad news. I backup the Documents folder more often than the entire
> system since that's what would be hardest to replace and is the least
> static. Moving the MUD elsewhere would require a separate backup or
> additional selector to back up. I suspect there is a significant number of
> uses who know to back up their documents but don't back up much else so for
> many people, that would mean it would get backed up less often or not at
> all.

Back up your whole user folder. That includes ~/Documents, plus ~/Library
with its Application Support and Preferences folders included. There is
absolutely no need to back up the "entire system", but "entire user" is the
best policy. Even now.

-- 
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X  or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.


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