switching Entourage to new computer

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Nedra

Hi

I just bought an eMac and tried to switch my Entourage 2001 data over from my old iMac (System 9). I copied the Microsoft User Data folder into the same place as it was on the iMac but when I open Entourage it starts as if I were a new user and does not recognize the old identity that I have all my e-mails and data in. What am I doing wrong

Thanks
Nedra
 
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Dave Cortright

Hi,

I just bought an eMac and tried to switch my Entourage 2001 data over from my
old iMac (System 9). I copied the Microsoft User Data folder into the same
place as it was on the iMac but when I open Entourage it starts as if I were a
new user and does not recognize the old identity that I have all my e-mails
and data in. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Nedra
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Choose Switch Identity in the File menu, and then choose your old identity
in the dialog presented.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Choose Switch Identity in the File menu, and then choose your old identity
in the dialog presented.
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You haven't given us all the information Nedra. Is your new computer now
running OS X Panther (10.3) or Jaguar, (10.2), not OS 9?

In that case the MUD folder has to go into the Documents folder within your
OS X user folder, NOT the Documents folder on the root of the hard disk.

You'll find there's now one there already - the one with the new
almost-empty database. If there's nothing worth keeping from there, just
replace the whole MUD folder with the one you drag there. If you have any
new email messages (or contacts) you want to keep, first open Entourage as
it is now and drag those messages and contacts to a folder on your desktop.
After you quit Entourage and replace the MUD folder and re-open Entourage to
your old full identity, you can drag those .eml and .vcf files back in to
become messages and contacts again.

(If your new computer also boots into OS 9 - which is doubtful if it's
actually a NEW computer, since the new ones can't boot into OS 9 - you can
make an alias to your MUD folder back in the root Documents folder so you
can still access the same Entourage database there. But if you only intend
to use Entourage 2001 in Classic when booted in OS X - the only way with the
new computers - you don't need to bother doing that.)

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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Nedra

Thanks! That was exactly the problem. I put the old identity where it used to be on the other computer in System 9 without realizing that it was in a different place in OSX.
 
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Nedra

Thanks! That was exactly the problem.

Nedra

Paul Berkowitz said:
You haven't given us all the information Nedra. Is your new computer now
running OS X Panther (10.3) or Jaguar, (10.2), not OS 9?

In that case the MUD folder has to go into the Documents folder within your
OS X user folder, NOT the Documents folder on the root of the hard disk.

You'll find there's now one there already - the one with the new
almost-empty database. If there's nothing worth keeping from there, just
replace the whole MUD folder with the one you drag there. If you have any
new email messages (or contacts) you want to keep, first open Entourage as
it is now and drag those messages and contacts to a folder on your desktop.
After you quit Entourage and replace the MUD folder and re-open Entourage to
your old full identity, you can drag those .eml and .vcf files back in to
become messages and contacts again.

(If your new computer also boots into OS 9 - which is doubtful if it's
actually a NEW computer, since the new ones can't boot into OS 9 - you can
make an alias to your MUD folder back in the root Documents folder so you
can still access the same Entourage database there. But if you only intend
to use Entourage 2001 in Classic when booted in OS X - the only way with the
new computers - you don't need to bother doing that.)

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
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Nedra

I keep getting errors when I try to post this, but here goes another try:

Thanks! That was exactly the problem.

Nedra
 
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