On 10/6/09 3:03 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Starting in 08, quitting the daemon does not quit Reminders. You really need > to quit all Microsoft applications. Diane, Thanks for the elaboration on this. I have SuperDuper! set up for making manually triggered clone backups of my boot drive, and I use its hooks for running shell scripts before and after the file copying phase. I had been running a script which quits only Database Daemon and Office Reminders. On your advice, I expanded that script to quit all MS apps (even though I rarely use any of them other than Entourage): #!/bin/bash osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Office Reminders" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "My Day" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Word" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Excel" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint" to quit' osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Messenger" to quit' Here is the script which runs after the copying: #!/bin/bash osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to launch' Is this sufficient, or is it necessary to restart Office Reminders as well? For offsite backup, I have Apple's Backup configured to copy files to my iDisk. This includes my Office 2008 Main Identity. But I just realized that this backup does not run any scripts to shut down MS apps. In fact, the log shows that backups can fail when encountering MS files, with error messages like this: Unable to copy /Users/julianv/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity/Database: The operation couldn¹t be completed. (OSStatus error -54.). Is there a way to reliably use Apple's Backup for Entourage Database files? My first thought was to create an Applescript which ran Backup after quitting the MS apps. But Backup is apparently not scriptable. I considered using SuperDuper! instead of Backup to get files to my iDisk, but the SD author claims that his program is not a good choice for that (data would need to be written into an image, then uploaded, slow, etc.). -- Julian Vrieslander <[email protected]> -- 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
