I opened Entourage v. 10.1.1 (2418) this morning and everything was gone!
It was working fine yesterday. Thinking back I moved the "MicroSoft User
Data" folder from the "User" area of my Finder to the "Applications",
"Microsoft Office X" folder. Can that be the problem? How? Shouldn't the
computer readdress the move and find it without problem? How can I get back
my info?
Either move it back, or put an alias to it (command-option-drag) in the
correct location, which is /Users/[you]/Documents/.
While an alias is OK (I use one myself, with the original on a different
disk partition() MOVE it from the Microsoft Office X folder in Applications.
That's the one place you should NEVER put the Microsoft User Data folder!
The whole point of the MUD folder in Documents is to ensure that all your
data is safe, NOT in the application folder. That way, when you update
Office - which usually overwrites the older version of the Microsoft office
X folder - you will not lose any of your precious data. Your entire
Entourage world - mail, address book, calendar, everything - is in the MUD
folder. If the MUD folder were in the application folder when it got
overwritten you'd lose everything.
Just leave things where they belong, or put them somewhere even safer (like
my separate partition) with an alias in the correct location.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html
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