Using the same Entourage data base on two Mac's

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john.

I want to access my email accounts on two MAC's, and keep the Email/
Address/Calendar/ Notes etc... upto date on both systems.

I read somewhere that the best way to do this , although not that
elegant, was to copy the Main Identitly folder to the second Mac,
enable Entourage on the second Mac and the mail would be organised and
upto date with the first Mac.

On the first MAC I store all mails in folders that I created within
Entourage, but on the second MAC these folders do not appear anywhere,
well I can't find them.......what am I doing something wrong? is there
another way to do what I am trying to accomplish?

Thanks
John
 
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Ed Kimball

I want to access my email accounts on two MAC's, and keep the Email/
Address/Calendar/ Notes etc... upto date on both systems.

I read somewhere that the best way to do this , although not that
elegant, was to copy the Main Identitly folder to the second Mac,
enable Entourage on the second Mac and the mail would be organised and
upto date with the first Mac.

On the first MAC I store all mails in folders that I created within
Entourage, but on the second MAC these folders do not appear anywhere,
well I can't find them.......what am I doing something wrong? is there
another way to do what I am trying to accomplish?

Thanks
John
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You may have to copy the entire Microsoft User Data folder, not just the
Main Identity folder. Try it and let us know if it works.
 
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john.

You may have to copy the entire Microsoft User Data folder, not just the
Main Identity folder. Try it and let us know if it works.
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Ed,
Yes that worked.

Why does it need to be this complicated in Entourage when in Outlook
it is so simple you just need the particular .pst files.

Are you aware of any other way to accomplish this dual Mac mode of
operation?

Thanks

John
 
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john.

I don't understand. Are you suggesting copying a single folder is more
complicated than copying multiple PST files?


You could store the Microsoft User Data folder on a network drive, and
then use symbolic links or alias files to point each computer to that
folder.

The drawback to this approach is you'd have to ensure that only one copy
of Entourage was running at a time - religiously. Failure to ensure that
would probably result in a corrupt database file.

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Your response.


I don't understand. Are you suggesting copying a single folder is more
complicated than copying multiple PST files?
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No it is not ....but what I should have said is that under Outlook you
have more control of the Email data base, under Entourage is seems
that is one monolithic database that grows and grows with little
option to correctly archive, at some time it appears that you have to
complete one data base and start another with little ability to older
emails.......

Can you suggest a good place to read up on symbolic links.... it
appears an interesting idea.

Thanks for your your help.

John
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

john. said:
Can you suggest a good place to read up on symbolic links.... it
appears an interesting idea.
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in the Terminal, try:
man ln

The command you need is:
ln -s

the -s option creates a symbolink link through this command.
Some applications will provide a GUI for the same thing. I use the
Terminal all the time so I'm not really all that familiar with these
apps, but I'm sure you can find more than one on VersionTracker.


Corentin
 
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Diane Ross

john. said:
Can you suggest a good place to read up on symbolic links.... it
appears an interesting idea.
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I use a contextual menu, SymbolicLinker.
SymbolicLinker <http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html>

Symbolic link - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link>

My advice is to use IMAP but if you want linking you can try this option
we've discussed recently. See thread "Some new-to-Entourage Questions"

One user explains how they use this method:

I keep my Microsoft User Data folder on an external pocket firewire drive (a
large capacity USB thumb-drive will suffice if both machines have USB 2.0)
and just keep aliases to it in my Documents folder of all the machines I use
Entourage on (laptop, desktop and occasionally other machines I sit down in
front of for a few hours). Works like a charm and gives me an identical
environment on every machine.

You must quit the Microsoft Database daemon in order to eject the drive.
 
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