On 11/12/05 10:42 PM, "Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/12/05 5:28 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The app is called "Microsoft Database Daemon" (it lives in the 'Office' >> folder of 'Microsoft Office 2004'). >> >> However, the process it spawns is called simply 'database daemon' - look in >> Activity Monitor for confirmation of this. > > Curiously, sometimes the process on my Mac is called "Microsoft Database > Daemon," sometimes just "Database Daemon." The _process_ called Microsoft Database daemon is the older one for Office X. Are you sure you're not launching Word X (it could also happen if you had the older MS D Daemon set to launch at Login). Go back and read what I wrote in the last post. > Whichever it's called, as long as > I have notifications turned off, it terminates when I've quit from all > Office applications. If I have Office Notifications turned on, the process > remains active, whichever it's called. That's what's supposed to happen. > Currently I don't have it set to > activate at login (for the reasons I've outlined earlier). > > If I create a script that tells Database Daemon to quit, but at the moment > the process is called Microsoft Database Daemon, will it still quit? If the > script contains such a statement but when the script is run Database Daemon > is NOT active, will the script hang at that point? It makes no difference what the _process_ is called. What matters is what the _application_ is called and, as Barry said, the application is always called "Microsoft Database Daemon". So that's what you should tell to quit, exactly as Barry said. (And no, telling a non-existent app to quit will not hang. If there's no such app you'll get a dialog "Where is Database Daemon". If there is such an app but it's not running, in Tiger nothing at all will happen. In Panther and earlier the app will launch and then quit.) -- 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. -- 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/>
