Office prefs and clean install of Tiger

[Brian_Abbott]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

I did a clean install of Tiger on my Powerbook, and then installed Office 2001 from my original CD, and then Office 2004 from my upgrade CD. I made a copy of my entire system before the clean install, so I thought it would be easy to bring over all my existing Office things: keyboard shortcuts, macros, Entourage calendar info, etc, but I can't seem to figure it out. I dragged the Microsoft folder out of my saved User>Library>Preferences and put in the new installation, but it didn't do the trick. Any ideas???

Thanks in advance, --Brian

 

[Diane Ross]

I did a clean install of Tiger on my Powerbook, and then installed Office 2001
from my original CD, and then Office 2004 from my upgrade CD. I made a copy of
my entire system before the clean install, so I thought it would be easy to
bring over all my existing Office things: keyboard shortcuts, macros,
Entourage calendar info, etc, but I can't seem to figure it out. I dragged the
Microsoft folder out of my saved User>Library>Preferences and put in the
new installation, but it didn't do the trick. Any ideas???

Did you bring over your Microsoft User Data folder from Documents?

 

[Brian_Abbott]

Yes, I brought over my entire Documents folder en masse. --Brian

 

[Diane Ross]

Yes, I brought over my entire Documents folder en masse. --Brian

What about your preferences? Seems some of the older templates and normal
file were in the Office 2001 folder.

The only other thing that could be at play here is your backup. I have had
other users report similar as everything is blank. Their backups were
pooched and contained no info. Check the file sizes on your backups.

 

[Brian_Abbott]

Thanks for you ideas.

I didn't have my Office 2001 folder any longer when I did my big backup before the clean install. As far as I can tell the backup is OK. Most of the pref files are small - a few KB to a few dozen KB - but only two show zero. Same with my Microsoft User Data folder - pretty much everything has some size.

Are there other places I should be looking for preferences besides my User>LIbrary>Preferences>Microsoft folder?

Thanks again for all your assistance, --Brian

 

[Diane Ross]

I didn't have my Office 2001 folder any longer when I did my big backup before
the clean install. As far as I can tell the backup is OK. Most of the pref
files are small - a few KB to a few dozen KB - but only two show zero. Same
with my Microsoft User Data folder - pretty much everything has some size.

Examples of a blank database
2004 --> 18.1 KB
2008 --> 22.6 MB

Are there other places I should be looking for preferences besides my
User>LIbrary>Preferences>Microsoft folder?

Some are listed as .plist files

System Folder/Preferences/Microsoft/Entourage Preferences

/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2001 Identities/[Each Identity]/

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/path/index.html#ent_prefs>