This topic is going on for a very long time, but I'll put my 2 cents in: The MUD folder stores items in it that, by Apple standards, shouldn't be in the Documents folder. Some should be in ~/Library/Caches, some in ~/Library/Preferences and some in ~/Library/Application Support (or /Library/Application Support). MS took the easy path and threw it all in one folder. Good for MS. It has the benefit of not having to dig a lot when looking for something. But it's a HUGE problem for people with network homes, or people that want to redirect the Documents to a network share. For the home or small-business user Entourage is fine. In enterprise it's a PITA. One of these days I'd like to hear the real reason why Entourage lacks MAPI.
On 3/15/06 10:59 AM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/15/06 4:46 AM, "AL Grant" wrote: > >> I have read the comments about no reason to hide this type of file and most >> of them have validity however we have a hard time remembering that the >> average user does not take the precautions that most of the people on this >> list do. As was stated above we need to protect the average user from >> themselves. I would say that we need to make this file require admin >> privileges to move it but I'll bet that 2/3 of the users that move this file >> and break E'rage are running as admin on there every day account. > > I've been reading this thread with vague interest, and I'd like to chime in > here. As a fairly well-informed but not expert "average user" I like having > the MUD folder in Documents - that way when I back up Documents, which I do > more regularly than backing up other folders, directories, whatever you want > to call them, I get my email backed up. I suspect that most "average users," > at least those who don't have a support staff doing back-up for them, act as > I do - worry most about backing up the Documents folder, assuming that if a > disaster strikes, reinstalling programs will recreate all the "Library" > stuff. I now know (having had my hard drive die), that Documents doesn't get > everything I've created - there are things like Safari bookmarks that are > someplace else, but it's still the folder I worry about most. -- 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/>
