This is not unusual on the Mac OS -- HFS+ tracks files by a unique id as well as by "location". Many apps track files by id, not by their location on the disk. This has many advantages, e.g. I can move a document that I'm editing in BBEdit into a new folder, then save the document in BBEdit, and the changes will be saved to the new location. Try that on an SGI or a Windows computer!
Importantly it sounds like from your experience you can move the Data folder somewhere else and everything will still work, which I hadn't heard before. (I'm not going to try it though...) - B > Here's something else I just learned from someone that is key to the issue: > > Trashing isn't sufficient. IME, Entourage is extremely badly-behaved in this > very regard: specifically, once it has established a "relationship" with a > particular data folder (as in the case of creating a new one in the > Documents directory when it first launches), it will continue to be attached > to this copy of the folder, *even when said folder is in the trash*. (I'm > not sure, but I suspect this is in contravention of Apple's Interface > guidelines). You have to either empty the trash, archive the folder, or > simply over-write it with the desired copy, by moving that copy into the > same directory, and responding affirmatively to the Finder's query. > > It's relatively easy to ascertain what's going on, by opening Entourage, > creating a message, then checking to see which copy of the Database was > modified at the time the message was created. > > > On 3/13/06 2:10 PM, "Diane Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You can delete the old dentity after you are satisfied with the transfer. > -- 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/>
