Jim Robertson wrote:
On 6/8/06 9:40 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are going to be far, far more people who depend on these functions -
and some who even buy Office specifically for these functions - than the few
of you who use a third party sync app.
Now that Entourage offers SyncServices, you can get part way there using
.Mac (no categories, no tasks, no notes -but presumably you don't use tasks
much if you don't use Office Notifications).
Paul,
Thank you for your considered response. Permit me to say that I appreciate
your offering examples as opposed to Jud's (uncharacteristic for him, I
believe) "we know best, so take it or leave it" reply.
I can guarantee you that I wasn't thinking anything along those lines
when I wrote it. Sorry to be terse, I didn't realize you wanted an
explanation of what Word was reading/writing.
In my last few weeks in the MacBU, I gave quite a bit of though towards
how a backup program could best be written in Entourage. Internally,
Entourage stores thousands to millions of "blocks". These blocks are the
smallest atomic piece of data that Entourage stores. Each of the blocks
has a checksum associated with it. A backup strategy where some utility
keeps track of all of the blocks and their checksums and then writes out
a diff from one file to the next, would work. It could even work while
the database is running, but even better it could stop Entourage while
running and then re-launch it afterward..
It would require help from the MacBU to write a utility to produce these
diffs and then another tool to "playback" the diffs into a database, but
it wouldn't require a rev to the file format.
Don't tell anyone in the MacBU that I wrote this though. ;)
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