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Dave Howard

I'm about to be swapping computers.

First off I want to move my Entourage 2004 Calendar, Address Book and Emails
to the new computer. Am I right in thinking I should do the following:

1. Create an archive of my existing data.

2. Install Office on the new machine.

3. Copy the archive to the new machine.

4. Import to the newly installed Entourage from the archive.

Okay - and then I want to be able to Sync with my Palm130.

So remembering that this is a new iMac G5 with nothing added except Office
and the imported archive...Am I right that I need to do this in the
following order:

A) Download and install Palm Desktop

B) Install the Handheld Sync Installer to be found in the Office 2004
Additional Tools folder.

Is that right?
Is there anything else I need to install?
Any further set up that I need to do?

Thanks all

Dave
 
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Owen Rubin

OR, much easier:

Install Office in the new machine, then simply go into the Users
Folder/Documents on the old machine and copy over the "Microsoft User Data"
Folder to the same folder on the new machine. That will copy ALL of
Microsoft's data for everything Office, including mail, addresses, tasks,
saved data and attachments, etc.

If you really only want the Entourage data, you can copy just Office 2004
Identities folder to the same place, of even just the specific identity
folder, in my case " Main Identity" to the proper place. Note however, that
any attachments to emails which may be saved in "Saved Attachments" folder
in the User Data Folder will be left behind, and Scripts may be in Script
Menu Folder as well, if any, so I find it easier to just take the entire
Microsoft User Data folder and delete what you do not want later. That
should make the change seamless.

You do not need to create an archive if all you want to do is move ALL the
data and want it EXACTLY as is. No import is required. Much easier. Note
also that I believe imports of mail may change the date on the import
folder. This will will not.

As for sync, install the sync software and the Entourage Conduit as you
said, and also move the Palm Data to the new machine as well, typically
stored in User/Documents/Palm. If that is moved, the Sync should be short
and sweet as all the data will be were expected and the sync should be
normal. This assumes you do NOT change user names.

Anyone else, am I missing something here? Obviously, do not delete the old
data until the new data works.

Also note, if going from an old Firewire capable Mac to a new one, the
start-up screen on the new Mac will do a complete import of all your data
and programs from the old machine to the new for you, making your new
machine look JUST like the old one as far as documents, users, applications,
and files are concerned. I recently used this to move from an old Titanium
PowerBook to a new 15" PowerBook. After the auto import, other than a newer
OS, EVERYTHING was exactly as I had left it on the old machine. VERY COOL!

-Owen Rubin-
 
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Alan Schaevitz

If you are indeed moving your files from one computer to a new one, when you
first initiate the new one (the iMac G5 for example), the Apple startup
software will ask if you are transferring a user from another machine. If
you say you are, you will be given the option of connecting the old machine
to the new one via firewire (assuming the old machine has a firewire port)
and starting up the old machine in disk mode (hold down the T key during
startup). Then, the Apple software will copy over the entire user from the
old machine.
 
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Dave Howard

Hi both - thanks for that. I'm actually going to try and keep things as
clean as possible. My Palm sync has stopped working here and since a new
machine is arriving imminently I'm not going to tear my hair out trying to
get it working again. I'd rather copy over my calendar and then sync from
there. I think I'll go as far as the copying the Microsoft User Data and
take it from there.

Thanks
Dave
 
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