On 3/11/10 1:20 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote {in response to Roger Cohen, whose report appears 1st for reference}:
>> On a virgin HD with a fresh installation of MS Office, MS has installed >> the >> following: >> >> 1) Microsoft AutoUpdate.app >> HD -> Applications ->??Microsoft AutoUpdate.app >> [Version 041011 9/22/04] > > This is the updater for Office 2004 & Office X . If you no longer have the > older versions installed, you can delete it. > >> >> 2) Microsoft AutoUpdate.app >> HD -> Library -> Application Support -> >> ?? Microsoft -> MAU2.0 -> Microsoft AutoUpdate.app >> [Version 2.2.0 4/9/08] > > This is the updater for Office 2008. > > The older AutoUpdater application?uses a VISE installer, however new MAU > uses the Apple PackageMaker format. > > Neither can see the updaters for the other format. You should run only one > updater at a time with restarts after applying the update. This got me thinking. The autoupdater for Office 2004 was pretty easy to find (in my "Applications" folder). I'd really never looked for the Autoupdater for Office 2008 before. Unless I wanted something right away, I could wait until it popped up on its own or open it from within an application. My question is this: does running the Office 2008 AutoUpdater do anything to the Main User Identity folder, particularly its "Database" file? We've chatted previously about how I keep my email, contacts, calendar etc. the same on two Macs by using a 3rd party synchronization utility. I discovered long ago when I first started doing this that it was necessary to make sure NO MS Office application was open on the Mac not in use because ANY component of Office that was launched would change at least some "modified" flag on the "Database" file. If Autoupdate does this, too, my painstakingly crafted and automated routine for keeping my most current iteration of my Main User Identity folder on both computers could be confounded by a spontaneous timed check for Office updates. My curiosity whetted, I navigated to: HD/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app and launched the autoupdater manually. Then, I read its "help" page (basically an html page). It doesn't say anything about where an Office installation places the AutoUpdate application (I guess since you'd told me where to look, I no longer needed to find it, but someone who had set updating to occur manually might want to invoke it from the Finder and have some difficulty figuring out where it was. Jim Robertson -- -- 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
