On 12 mars 2010, at 8:14, Jim Robertson wrote:
> My question is this: does running the Office 2008 AutoUpdater
> do anything to the Main User Identity folder, particularly its "Database"
> file?
Nope, nothing at all.
> 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.
That's because of the Microsoft Office daemon.
It accesses the database in order to be able toshare information between Office
applications.
> 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.
>
If anything, I suspect that the Office updater, while updating, ensures that
Office applications ae not running.
Corentin
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