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I have a legal version of MS Office 2004 (education version) that has 3
licenses taken up between my computer, my wife's and a third computer
in the household. Usually, things work fine. I found this problem once
before on the third computer when I thought i'd be crafty and clone my
entire Entourage identity to another computer (same three
computers--two had the same identity). It didn't work of course, but I
had nothing to lose, so I deleted that copy of my identity. I still had
my main identity on my main computer. No biggie. Everything was fine.
Yesterday I wanted to do something in service of my recording needs
with Pro Tools and I created a clone of my entire system drive so that
I could let it be on two drives, the idea being one would serve Pro
Tools and my audio needs (my PT won't work on anything higher than
10.3.4 but I wanted to move on to 10.3.9 for the rest of my needs). I
deleted any unneeded programs on the clone--the idea was to just have
audio on one system drive, and the other would be general use. That I
would have to restart to toggle between certain apps was the intention.
Entourage was never on both drives at once except before I erased the
cloned version of it. And there would be only one MUD folder in my Mac
user folder.
The trick of that backfired somehow because of other things, and so I
ended up ditching the second startup drive idea, and from yet another
backup hard drive, I reinstated my older system/library/apps folder to
my main drive so that we'd be back on 10.3.4 again.
Somewhere in all this, I totally chumped my Microsoft User Data folder
and made it lose touch with Entourage. Now, I can't start my main
identity up. I tried an older version of it. No luck. It appears to be
there, a full database and all. I backed it up. I don't know if I
renamed it or something, but when I toyed with the same problem in the
earlier experience I had, I recall that changing names of the folder
alone does not help, so presumably it cannot hurt either.
How do I get my identity to be recognized? I tried to remove Office and
reinstall from the CD, but no luck. I tried rebuilding my database on
the option-startup feature, but nothing...
I need my Entourage back!
licenses taken up between my computer, my wife's and a third computer
in the household. Usually, things work fine. I found this problem once
before on the third computer when I thought i'd be crafty and clone my
entire Entourage identity to another computer (same three
computers--two had the same identity). It didn't work of course, but I
had nothing to lose, so I deleted that copy of my identity. I still had
my main identity on my main computer. No biggie. Everything was fine.
Yesterday I wanted to do something in service of my recording needs
with Pro Tools and I created a clone of my entire system drive so that
I could let it be on two drives, the idea being one would serve Pro
Tools and my audio needs (my PT won't work on anything higher than
10.3.4 but I wanted to move on to 10.3.9 for the rest of my needs). I
deleted any unneeded programs on the clone--the idea was to just have
audio on one system drive, and the other would be general use. That I
would have to restart to toggle between certain apps was the intention.
Entourage was never on both drives at once except before I erased the
cloned version of it. And there would be only one MUD folder in my Mac
user folder.
The trick of that backfired somehow because of other things, and so I
ended up ditching the second startup drive idea, and from yet another
backup hard drive, I reinstated my older system/library/apps folder to
my main drive so that we'd be back on 10.3.4 again.
Somewhere in all this, I totally chumped my Microsoft User Data folder
and made it lose touch with Entourage. Now, I can't start my main
identity up. I tried an older version of it. No luck. It appears to be
there, a full database and all. I backed it up. I don't know if I
renamed it or something, but when I toyed with the same problem in the
earlier experience I had, I recall that changing names of the folder
alone does not help, so presumably it cannot hurt either.
How do I get my identity to be recognized? I tried to remove Office and
reinstall from the CD, but no luck. I tried rebuilding my database on
the option-startup feature, but nothing...
I need my Entourage back!
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