I want to reformat my Mac OSXdrive without losing my address book.
Where do I find the address book data which I can put on disc and how
do I put it back after reformatting and reinstalling entourage?
thanks...
Don't you want your mail too?
All your data is located in your identity. You'll find this in your User's
Document folder.
Rules, mailing lists, signatures, messages, data, schedules, contacts,
tasks, notes, calendar are located in:
Entourage X : ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/your
identity
Note: your identity is called Main Identity unless you rename it.
If you only want your address book, you can use File->Export and export your
contacts as a tab delimited file. You can them Import it into your new copy.
Don't forget to run Repair Permissions after you do your new installs.
Run Repair Permissions after any software update from Apple and for other
software updates.
To use: open Disk Utility in your Applications/Utility folder.
Click on the First Aid tab and select Repair Permissions
Click on the icon for your boot volume.
Click the repair permissions button.
Don't run from CD as updates have a newer version of Repair Permissions.
Run Repair Permissions from the volume being repaired. Disk Utility uses
receipt files from the disk on which it is running (not necessarily the same
as the disk it is "repairing") in order to set the "correct" permissions. If
you run Disk Utility from a CD, it will use the receipt files on the CD (if
any) to determine what the "correct" permissions should be. This could mean
incorrect "repairs."
In short: Disk First Aid should always be run from CD (or by using fsck at
startup in single-user mode), whereas Repair Permissions should always be
run from the volume being repaired. The exception to the latter being if a
permissions problem is preventing startup. In that case, boot off of the CD
and run Repair Permissions, but if doing so, allows you to boot up again,
make sure you re-run Repair Permissions from your OS X volume afterwards.
