Transferring Identity Issue

[jcook21782]

So I am trying to get Office:mac 2008 setup but I can't transfer my identity because I do not have enough disk space to do it... My identity is 22GB and all I have left is 8GB after I remove all documents and what not... Reducing the identity file size is not an option...

Why is it done this way??? Why not upgrade the identity with out duplicating it???

 

[William Smith]

So I am trying to get Office:mac 2008 setup but I can't transfer my
identity because I do not have enough disk space to do it... My identity
is 22GB and all I have left is 8GB after I remove all documents and what
not... Reducing the identity file size is not an option...

Why is it done this way??? Why not upgrade the identity with out
duplicating it???

If something went wrong with the upgrade and corrupted your one and only
identity then what would you do? Microsoft can not guarantee that
Entourage users will make copies or backup of sensitive data, so they
must duplicate it first to prevent them from being liable for damage.

You're main problem is the size of your drive. If you only have 8GB left
then you need a larger drive or you need to offload several GB of files
to make breathing room. That's more for the Mac OS to work, not just
Entourage.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Diane Ross]

You're main problem is the size of your drive. If you only have 8GB left
then you need a larger drive or you need to offload several GB of files
to make breathing room. That's more for the Mac OS to work, not just
Entourage.

You are going to have serious issues if you are that low on drive space.

There was a big discussion on the OSX list the other day and it was
suggested that between 10-25% of your drive needs to be free.

To help performance, add your Identities folder to Spotlight Exclude list.
See this page for more tips to help performance.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/performance.html#options_perform
ance>

Problems from Insufficient RAM and Free Hard Disk Space

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance2.html>