saving data when changing computers

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Teresa Stern

I had to replace my hard drive, and when I re-installed Office 2004
with Entourage onto my new hard drive, I wanted to bring in all my old
data (emails, calendar, address book, etc). I had all this on a
secondary Mac Ibook. I tried just copying the "main identity" folder
contents to my new computer, placing it in the exact same location, but
that has not worked. It's under users/my name/documents/microsoft user
data/office 2004 identities/main identity. The files are there, but
Entourage isn't reading them. I've been able to recover my calendar,
address book, and notes by syncing with my palm between old and new
machines, but this doesn't recover all my emails. I have done this
procedure before without a problem. Any ideas what I might try next?
Thanks!
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Teresa Stern said:
I had to replace my hard drive, and when I re-installed Office 2004
with Entourage onto my new hard drive, I wanted to bring in all my old
data (emails, calendar, address book, etc). I had all this on a
secondary Mac Ibook. I tried just copying the "main identity" folder
contents to my new computer, placing it in the exact same location, but
that has not worked. It's under users/my name/documents/microsoft user
data/office 2004 identities/main identity.
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I'm not sure why it didn't work, but what about taking the entire
Microsft User Data folder and placing it in your DOcuments folder ??

Corentin
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I had to replace my hard drive, and when I re-installed Office 2004
with Entourage onto my new hard drive, I wanted to bring in all my old
data (emails, calendar, address book, etc). I had all this on a
secondary Mac Ibook. I tried just copying the "main identity" folder
contents to my new computer, placing it in the exact same location, but
that has not worked. It's under users/my name/documents/microsoft user
data/office 2004 identities/main identity. The files are there, but
Entourage isn't reading them. I've been able to recover my calendar,
address book, and notes by syncing with my palm between old and new
machines, but this doesn't recover all my emails. I have done this
procedure before without a problem. Any ideas what I might try next?
Thanks!
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If the files are in the right place, try choosing 'switch identity' from the
Entourage menu and see if your old identity is listed there.
 
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