On FriSep11/ 3:47 PM, "Lee2001" <[email protected]> wrote:
> When you did a clean install of Office 2008, did you save your prior > identity dbase? My Entourage crashes incessantly even after rebuilding the > dbase. Hesitating upgrading to Snow because current Entourage dbase is not > stable. The short response is Yes and I used the new SL compatible SuperDuper. The longer version is I was having all kinds of issues with my old 10.5.8 with Office 2008 and some other applications. I installed Snow Leopard and had no real issues with Office 2008 but the Time Machine was hosed and it would give me the Black Screen of Death (the dark screen telling you to push the power button on the back - in multiple languages). This is a the sign of a Kernal Panic. After talking to AppleCare, it was decided I needed to erase and install. No problem erasing the Macintosh HD but then I ran into major problems when I tied to install 10.6 on the clean drive. It said Snow Leopard could not be installed on this Mac. My guess (that was wrong) was SL could not detect a Leopard on the hard drive. I got the same thing with Leopard and even with my Tiger. At this point I carried the Intel 2.4 GHz iMac to the Apple Store for help. The Apple guy was trying to install 10.6 from his master and he got the same Black Screen of Death. He indicated he has seen that before and it can be caused by memory. He pulled the 2 GB stick and left the one Apple 1 GB and installed Snow Leopard and everything was working perfect. We even attached my external hard drive the Time Machine started doing its thing. All (((repeat all ))) of my issues were probably due to a 3rd party 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM. I still have never found a reliable memory tester. They all said my RAM was good. I left the Apple Store and installed my older other 1 GB stick and everything has been working perfect. It was just a major PITA to reinstall everything..... and I mean everything. I contacted the MFG of the 3rd party stick (provided by a friend) and discovered the part number was not for an Apple iMac. I have the correct part number on order to replace one of the 1 GB DDR2 SDRAMs. Sorry about the long winded shaggy-dog story. As part of the rebuilding of Humpy-Dumpty I installed Office 2008 from the disc. Microsoft makes this very hard and time consuming. My disc installed 12.0 and I had to do each update one at a time. What a pain. Has MS every heard of a Combo? I copied my Office 2008 Identities from a SuperDuper 10.5.8 backup and the first time I ran Entourage I had to rebuilt the database. I also had issues registration but this was resolved by a Mactiopia tip titled "Remove and reenter the Office 2008 product key" at <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?MODE=pv&CTT=PageView&clr=99-0-0&targ et=f2d51b70-f7d6-4a3c-ae8b-b90597d7530e1033> The new install worked great and I have had no issues other than the missing Custom Dictionary. The dictionary problem is my User/Library/Preferences folder on the SuperDuper drive does not contain a Microsoft folder. The new Office 2008 installer added a one so I will just start over with a clear user dictionary. This is no big deal. I am now very pleased with Snow Leopard and Office 2008 has never worked better. Something tells me I had some issues in the old 10.5.8 setup. It is hard to start over but now that it is done it was worth the time and effort. Like the old saying says .... I've been there, had fun and don't want to do it again! Thanks for reading this long shaggy dog success story! > > >> From: Richard Kriss <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: YouTalk mailing list for discussion of Microsoft Entourage >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:23:56 -0500 >> To: YouTalk <[email protected]> >> Subject: Location of Office 2008 user dictionary >> >> As part of my upgrade to Snow Leopard I did a clean install and then >> reinstalled Office 2008 from the CD. Office 2008, including Entourage >> is working great. >> >> The Custom Dictionary in my Microsoft Users Data seems to be a new >> version rather that the one with all of my saves. >> >> Where are the user special words filed? >> -- -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
