Sound Set in Entourage 2008 Gone?

[Filippo Motta]

I was too fast.
It works only the first time you make a new "send/receive".
Then it stops working again!
At least this is what is happening to me!

 

[AlphaBovine]

lplamondon, thanks for the tip but this did not work on my end. I did a restart as well just to make sure and the file was never recreated. Oddly enough without the sound file in there, I still received the welcome chime and first action sound but nothing afterword...this makes me wonder if the sounds for 2008 or in the Entourage Sound Set file anymore.

FOr testing purposes I also tried the same suggestion on my Desktop G4 (10.4.11) and the same thing. No file, but still the first few sounds. I restored the file for both the MacBook Pro and the Desktop G4 for now until this issue is finalized by Microsoft Tech Support or another suggestion comes along.

Any thought?

 

[Ed Kimball]

New Mail is designed to create a new mail message to send.

If I understand you correctly, you want to run the schedule "Send & Receive
All" to see if you have received any new mail. In Entourage 2004, you can do
that at least three different ways:
1. Click the Send & Receive button on the Entourage toolbar.
2. Press cmd-K.
3. Select the schedule from Tools\Schedules on the menu.

Hope this helps.

 

[lplamondon]

You are right... I claimed victory too quickly... it worked a few
times for me and then stopped working! Oh well...

 

[AlphaBovine]

No problem lplamondon. I know someone at Microsoft MBU is reading this over a Starbucks cup of coffee and either laughing or banging their head into a desk among all the other release bugs.

 

[gingeradams]

Here's what I noticed. Launch Entourage 2008. Choose File > Preferences > Notifications. Click on the speaker icons. The sounds play fine.
Now invoke an action that will yield some sounds. I chose Send/Receive on my five email accounts. Only one "No mail sound" is played (instead of five).
More importantly, none of the sounds work. Not as a result of the normal actions and not by clicking the speaker icons in the Preferences window.
Quit and relaunch Entourage. The first notification sound will work again. But from that point on, no sound.
Definitely a bug in Entourage 2008.

I just installed Leopard and MS Office 2008 yesterday and have been
very happy with all the newness. However, I have no sound with
Entourage either - same situation as described above. Also, the sound
sets I had on Entourage 2004 did not transfer over (of course if the
sounds don't work at all that's a moot - no pun intended - point!).
Any fix for this that anyone nows of?

 

[Andy_Ruff]

@AlphaBovine -- Banging our heads . And it's Peet's not Starbucks. Us folks in Entourage land are based in California.

 

[AlphaBovine]

Andy,

They don't have Starbucks in CA? Nah, you guys did a great job. The program works fine. Just a couple of glitches here and there but nothing that would cause me to roll back to '04. Keep up the good work and buy another latté on me.

 

[Kwamster]

...it would be nice to have the sounds back...and some way to use the custom sets I had for years. (fingers crossed for a patch -- soon!)

 

[Andy Ruff]

We are looking into a fix for this. It appears to be issue only on Leopard.

-Andy

 

[AlphaBovine]

Darn that new OS.

 

[cuneytustalar]

Just installed Office 2008 on a 10.5.1 MacBook Pro and working great. Only complaint is other than the opening "chime" all the other notification sounds no longer play. I have restarted, confirmed that the Entourage Sound Set file is still under my Microsoft User Data Folder, but nothing plays anymore. While this isn't a major issue, I am in another part of the office and I rely on the audible notification for new messages so I don't have to go back and check every few min.
Anybody have any thoughts?

I have a problem with the sounds in Entourage, the notification sounds
work great but when a notification sound is played simultaniously you
hear an irritating sound together with the Entourage sound.. I didnt
had this in the beta of 2008.. Does anyone have the same problem?

 

[bikinijack]

I know this will sound silly, but one of the main reasons I upgraded
to MS Office 2008 was to get a quicker version of Entourage because of
it being universal. Another sort of silly fact is that I liked the
custom sounds I had created with Entourage 2004, which is what made me
prefer Entourage over Mail... Now, with Leopard, you can't use custom
sounds with Entourage. I sure hope someone figures this out soon...
I want my notification sounds back!

 

[mortfe]

Same here. Tried trashing sound set from user data, but I only get the welcome if I quit. Restarting, absutely nothing. 2004 sound set doesn't work either. Guess we'll have to wai for patch. Otherwise, everything works great. Would have liked to see the type size a little bigger on sidebar and incoming mail.

 

[alouette]

Same here as all off you

Sounds are here now:

Microsoft Office 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Versions/12/Resources/

mailsent.wav
newmail.wav
nomail.wav
welcome.wav
goodbye.wav
mailerror.wav
reminder.wav

 

[bikinijack]

Same here as all off you
Sounds are here now:
Microsoft Office 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/Versions/12/Resources/
mailsent.wav
newmail.wav
nomail.wav
welcome.wav
goodbye.wav
mailerror.wav
reminder.wav

Great info alouette... So to make a new sound set, couldn't we just
produce a new "mailsent.wav" file and replace it into this file?

 

[bikinijack]

On Jan 20, 10:21 am, alouette <> wrote:

I created my favorite sound set that is now working with Entourage
2008 (although we are still left with the Leopard issue of the sounds
stopping to work after a while, hopefully that will get fixed soon).
Here is what I did to get my old customs sound set up and working:

1) Play sound from sound set on Expression X (I used this to create
the original sound set)
2) Record sound on Audio Hijack Pro
3) Edit sound with Sound Studio, convert sound from mp3 to wav
4) Put sound with same file name as Entourage sound file in the
following folder (example, name the new sent mail sound file
"mailsent.wav"): Microsoft Office 2008/Office/EntourageCore.framework/
Versions/12/Resources/

to find this folder on your computer, just do a spotlight search using
one of the files in the folder, such as "mailsent.wav"

Thanks again to alouette, I am almost a happy camper

 

[mortfe]

Created sounds with same name. How did you put them in? Did a search. It cames up as a package, not a folder.

 

[alouette]

To bikinijack

Yes you can

even use the mail app sounds
(Just change the name)

 

[alouette]

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