Entourage sync

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macbalu

Hello!

Question: I have got a powermac and a powerbook and I am using office 2004.
What is the best way to keep entourage on both computers up to date. Is
there a possibility for syncing two entourage versions?
Please give me some ideas about your experiencees!

Thanks!
 
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Guest

I know this doesn't help in this instance, but i have had
the exact same problem on Outlook under windows. There
were a couple of 3rd party apps claiming to do it, but
none did it at all well. The only way i could find out of
it was to set up an exchange server, and migrate all my
mail onto it. Did exactly what i wanted, but was a
potentially very expensive solution. Thank goodness we
had a site licence for exchange.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Question: I have got a powermac and a powerbook and I am using office 2004.
What is the best way to keep entourage on both computers up to date. Is
there a possibility for syncing two entourage versions?
Please give me some ideas about your experiencees!
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The simplest way is to regularly copy your identity folder from the more
up-to-date computer to the other one, overwriting. You need to have the name
of your identity the same on both computers - by default, if you haven't
changed it, it's "Main Identity". If you _have_ changed it (at "Switch
Identity...") in one Entourage, do the same in the other.

Your identity folder is found on each computer here:

~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/Main Identity/

where "~" means your OS user folder (actually at /Users/[username]/). The
Documents folder is the one appearing in the left bar of Finder windows, at
the bottom.

All you need to do is copy the "Main Identity" folder - which contains your
Database and support files which must be kept together - to the Office 2004
Identities folder in the same place on the other computer, replacing. That
will update everything - messages, contacts, calendar, etc. - all in one
fell swoop. It does mean that you'll have the same mail accounts in both
places too. (If you can't use one of them at the other location, that's OK.
Just remember to not remove it from the Send & Receive All schedule there.)

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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