Backing up everything?

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Mike

New to Entourage and mac os. In Outlook in Windows I back up the .pst.

1. What file do I backup to save all of my email, contacts, calendar?

2. What file do I backup to save all of my pop3 accounts?

3. What file do I back up to save my rules?

4. What file backs up my newsgroups?

Thanks!!!!!!
 
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Mickey Stevens

New to Entourage and mac os. In Outlook in Windows I back up the .pst.

1. What file do I backup to save all of my email, contacts, calendar?

2. What file do I backup to save all of my pop3 accounts?

3. What file do I back up to save my rules?

4. What file backs up my newsgroups?
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The best way to back up your data is to copy your entire identity folder to
another drive. That will save all Entourage data including everything
you've mentioned. The folder is located here:

(Entourage 2001)
HD/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2001 Identities/<Your Identity>/

(Entourage X)
HD/Users/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/<Your Identity>/

(Entourage 2004)
HD/Users/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/<Your
Identity>/

You can also back up individual contacts & mail messages by dragging
contacts, mail messages, or mail folders to the Desktop. If you're using
Entourage 2004, you can go to File > Export to export selected data. Yet
the best method to backup all data remains copying your identity folder to
another drive.

In the future, please state which version of Entourage you're using.
 
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Mike

I am using 2004.

So if I backup this folder and reformat my computer and reinstall entourage,
will all of my stuff be restored by replacing the folder with the backed up
one?

Thanks.
 
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Farmer Bob

I have to do a transfer install on an OS9 machine that is running
Office 2001/Entourage 2001 and I have done this "move" a million times
aliased it to other partitions and even got it to work aliased in OSX
where everyone on the planet said that it wouldn't work. But this one
time everytime I start up Entourage it writes over the databases and a
new Entourage is born.

Any thoughts, anyone?
 
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