Huge Office X Database, Small Office 2004 Database

[peter.mac]

I am running OS 10.3.9 on a newer PB. Prior to last week, I had been
using Office X. Due to a problem with the max file size of Entourage, I
switched to Office 2004. I've been using Office 2004 (heavily) for
about a week.

Today I looked in the MS User Data folder for Office 2004 and was
shocked to see that the Database file was only 18MB in size and has a
last modified date that corrisponds to the date I installed 2004. My
Office X Database file is at 2.27GB and has a modification date of
today.

I'd like to uninstall Office X, but am afraid that I'll also loose all
my data. Can anyone tell me what is happening here?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Haven't a clue, but I think you'd be better off asking in the Entourage
group.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage

I can tell you that all of your Entourage data is kept in home/documents/ms
user data/office [#] identities/main identity, and you should back up that
entire identity folder, not just the database. However, the Remove Office
tool should not touch it anyhow.

But I would advise you not to uninstall anything until you've sorted out
what is going on. It kinda sounds like you've been using Office X all along
and you just thought you had switched over. Apple's Dock and Recent Items
don't make it easy to tell which version you are launching.