Office 2004 - Office Notifications Not Displaying Number?

[The Terminator]

I can¹t remember if this was an issue with Office X, but I¹ve found when I
reboot my Mac, and the Office Notifications daemon appears, it does not
initially show the number of reminders in its Dock icon. I have to go the
the Notifications window, and perform some action on on of them (snooze,
dismiss, whatever) and then the Dock icon shows the number.

Has anyone else experienced this?

OS X 10.3.4
PowerBook G4 1.33
2 GB RAM
Office 2004

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I can¹t remember if this was an issue with Office X, but I¹ve found when I
reboot my Mac, and the Office Notifications daemon appears, it does not
initially show the number of reminders in its Dock icon. I have to go the the
Notifications window, and perform some action on on of them (snooze, dismiss,
whatever) and then the Dock icon shows the number.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Nope. Sorry. I don't know what this can be.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.

 

[The Terminator]

I tried rebuilding the database, but the Database Repair tool reset all
folders and messages from the categories I had set them to None. So I went
back to the old database, since a great deal of my folders and messages had
categories. In some further testing, whenever I switch identities, the
Office Notification daemon runs and shows the accurate count.

Paul, this has not happened to you (the counter not displaying the number of
notifications)?

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I've seen it happen once or twice during beta testing when I was using both
X and 2004. I suspect that what's happening is that the Office X daemon is
running, not the Office 2004 daemon. The X daemon may not be able to access
its database with Entourage 2004 open. In any case, that's not the one you
want. If you intend to keep both versions of Entourage around, you're going
to have to be careful how you use them. For now, quit Entourage, go to
System Preferences/Accounts/Startup Items, and remove ALL instances of the
Microsoft Database Daemon. Log Out (Apple menu), login. Open Entourage 2004.
That will "re-engage" the correct daemon. If ever you plan to open X
(why??), quit 2004, then run a simple AppleScript (which you can save as a
compiled Script and keep in the system Script menu, or save as an
application and keep anywhere):

tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit

before opening X. Then when you quit X, you MUST run the script again before
opening 2004.

Or just stop using X.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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From: The Terminator <[email protected]>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.mac.office,microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:01:34 -0700
Subject: Re: Office 2004 - Office Notifications Not Displaying Number?

I tried rebuilding the database, but the Database Repair tool reset all
folders and messages from the categories I had set them to None. So I went
back to the old database, since a great deal of my folders and messages had
categories. In some further testing, whenever I switch identities, the
Office Notification daemon runs and shows the accurate count.

Paul, this has not happened to you (the counter not displaying the number of
notifications)?

 

[The Terminator]

Not using Office X at all. The number of notifications in the Dock seems to
randomly disappear, but pretty consistently when I hide the Notifications.