Portability of Microsoft User Data Folder

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Patrick Queen

Hello:

I've been happily transporting the constellation of resources provided by
Entourage back and forth between my office and home computers simply by
copying the Microsoft User Data folder of the machine I'm leaving and
pasting it over the Microsoft User Data folder of the computer I'm about to
use.

After some problems with Entourage crashing (probably due to too many saved
e-mail messages with too many fat attachments), I've been having trouble
with the previously seamless portability of the Microsoft User Data file.
Now when I try to replace the file on my home computer, I get the following
message: "The operation cannot be completed because the item 'Database
Cache' is in use" -- even when the computer has been freshly booted and no
Microsoft applications have been activated.

Any advice, please?

Thanks,

Patrick
450 PowerPc G3
OSX 10.3.5
Entourage X
 
M

matt neuburg

Patrick Queen said:
After some problems with Entourage crashing (probably due to too many saved
e-mail messages with too many fat attachments), I've been having trouble
with the previously seamless portability of the Microsoft User Data file.
Now when I try to replace the file on my home computer, I get the following
message: "The operation cannot be completed because the item 'Database
Cache' is in use" -- even when the computer has been freshly booted and no
Microsoft applications have been activated.
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Interesting. I've never heard of this (are you sure you have the name
right?), but perhaps this "database cache" is invisible. I'm guessing
that maybe it is supposed to go away when Entourage shuts down, but if
you crash that might not happen. The solution then would be to find it
and delete it (with Entourage not running, please!). I suppose you tried
rebuilding the database? m.
 
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Barry Wainwright

It is also worth turning off the Database Daemon _before_ you copy the MUD
folder - otherwise the daemon may not have completed writing all file
buffers out to the database and some corruption can creep in.
 
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