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William Smith [MVP]
Windows users can sometimes be a little blind to the fact that not
everything acts like Windows. A perfect example of this is when they
send Windows UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths to Mac users. They
expect the Mac folks to be able to click the link in an E-mail message
and go straight to a folder on a file server.
What are UNC paths? Those are sometimes short but often long links that
look like this:
\\server\Projects\Remodeling\
A UNC path starts of with a set of two backslashes (often called
whack-whack), which means "everything after this is on the network, not
on my computer". The whack-whack is followed by a server name followed
by another whack followed by one or more folder names separated by even
more whacks.
Unlike what the name implies, these paths are hardly "universal".
WinShortcutter from Lobotomo Software, however, will enable Mac users
who work in a Windows world to follow these whack-whack style links.
Continue reading at
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009...unc_paths_in_entourage_using_winshortcut.html>
or <http://tinyurl.com/cw678m>.
--
bill
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>
everything acts like Windows. A perfect example of this is when they
send Windows UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths to Mac users. They
expect the Mac folks to be able to click the link in an E-mail message
and go straight to a folder on a file server.
What are UNC paths? Those are sometimes short but often long links that
look like this:
\\server\Projects\Remodeling\
A UNC path starts of with a set of two backslashes (often called
whack-whack), which means "everything after this is on the network, not
on my computer". The whack-whack is followed by a server name followed
by another whack followed by one or more folder names separated by even
more whacks.
Unlike what the name implies, these paths are hardly "universal".
WinShortcutter from Lobotomo Software, however, will enable Mac users
who work in a Windows world to follow these whack-whack style links.
Continue reading at
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009...unc_paths_in_entourage_using_winshortcut.html>
or <http://tinyurl.com/cw678m>.
--
bill
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>