Entourage Digest 12/31/09 3:05 PM Entourage Digest On 12/31/09 3:05 PM,
"Entourage Digest" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 d?c. 2009, at 15:34, Doug Doudna wrote:
>
>> When I started my computer us this morning, I discovered that the only thing
>> in my documents folder was a Microsoft User Data folder. I have thrown it
>> away several times but it keeps coming back.
>
> Don't do that, really!!
> That's where Office stores numerous support files, scripts, etc, including the
> Entourage identity with e-mails, settings etc.
> Even if you don't use Entouage, Office needs it and will systematically
> re-create it.
>
> No idea why you have nothing else in ~/Documents, but I wouldn't play with the
> MUD folder.
>
Too late, I did again and have to start all over today trying to setup
mailing list and categories.
>> Luckily this time my backup
>> didn't disappear so I was able to recover my Documents folder but I still
>> have a separate MUD folder. Now under my Documents folder is a folder
>> dougdoudna which is my Home holder, then my documents.
>
> Huuummmm not good. From what you are describing you have a duplicated
> structure (like /Users/<you>/Documents/dougdouna/Document)
>
> Did you play with the advanced Users setup in the System preferences??
> In any case, it's unrelated to Office.
>
No, I didn't play with nothing to my knowledge. Do you think that I could
move everything manually out of the Documents/dougdouna/Document folder into
the original Documents folder and then delete the second dougdoudna
folder? This may be related. I was trying to backup with DU last night and
it would go so far and then come up with a message: Restore Failure an error
(2) occurred while copying. No such file or directory.
>> I have no idea what
>> happened nor do I know how to get things straightened out like the two MUD
>> folder or how to get rid of the dougdoudna folder. I have lost all of my old
>> email that I was saving plus all of my mail folders.
>
> I suspect the system lost track of the location of your user account (of you
> specified a new one).
> Office therefore lost its MUD folder with all your e-mails.
> If you can correct that, Office is likely to find its MUD folder again (unless
> the e-mails were in one of the folders you trashed)
>
>
> Corentin
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