Quitting the Daemon???

[Kerry]

Is there anyway to prevent the Daemon from running. Quitting it
Activity Monitor isn't a big deal and I could automate this with
Quickeys. However, its a bit of a nuisance. I got an iMac and I am
sync'g my Macbook Pro with the iMac. Entourage's main identity will
only sync over from the Macbook Pro to the iMac if I quit the Daemon.
Doing this everytime I want to sync the two computers is a bit of
hassle.

 

[Diane Ross]

Is there anyway to prevent the Daemon from running.

Spotlight will index any cache files the Entourage daemon has created even
if the daemon is not launched, but no new cache files will be created until
the daemon is launched again.

Microsoft Database Daemon FAQs
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/daemon.html>

Can you run a shell script with your sync software?

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[Kerry]

Spotlight will index any cache files the Entourage daemon has created even
if the daemon is not launched, but no new cache files will be created until
the daemon is launched again.

Microsoft Database Daemon FAQs
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/daemon.html>

Can you run a shell script with your sync software?

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page   <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog  <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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That script is very handy. My software does allow a script to pre-run
but it doesn't seem to activate the script on the remote which is my
Macbook Pro. I just saved it as an app and put it in the dock which
makes it a lot easier to shut this down before running the sync.

Thanks

 

[Kerry]

Spotlight will index any cache files the Entourage daemon has created even
if the daemon is not launched, but no new cache files will be created until
the daemon is launched again.

Microsoft Database Daemon FAQs
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/daemon.html>

Can you run a shell script with your sync software?

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page   <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog  <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

Actually that script is really handy for my overnight backups. I put
it as an application launch in my Quickeys routine that sets the
computer up for the overnight backup. So this ensures that that will
be a safer backup. However, with that Daemon running only one of my
sync systems Get Backup 2 ran around the Daemon. The other software
Chronosync which is more advanced can't get around that Daemon running
on the remote.

 

[Diane Ross]

That script is very handy. My software does allow a script to pre-run
but it doesn't seem to activate the script on the remote which is my
Macbook Pro. I just saved it as an app and put it in the dock which
makes it a lot easier to shut this down before running the sync.

Be sure that you are also quitting Office Reminders. The quit daemon
script does not quit Office Reminders in Office 2008.

You could create an Automator workflow and save it as an application.
Use the script in the workflow. The only flaw I can find with the
script is if you have an open unsaved draft window in any Microsoft
application, the script will fail.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to quit
tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit
tell application "Microsoft Office Reminders" to quit
tell application "My Day" to quit
tell application "Microsoft Word" to quit
tell application "Microsoft Excel" to quit
tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint" to quit
tell application "Microsoft Messenger" to quit

 

[Kerry]

Thanks Diane. No, that full script I downloaded works beautifully and
shuts everything down. I watcherd it close ent and then went to
activity monitor and all things microsoft were shut down. Then
Chronosync worked. Without running that script Chronosync couldn't
sync from my mbp to the iMac but could go from the iMac to mbp.

Looking at that script I kind of thought I should make a bit of an
effort to learn Applescript. I've gotten so dependent over the years
on Quickeys and now have a number of Automator routines evertime I'd
pick up my book on Applescript I could never think of what do I need
to script as I'm doing all this with these other two products.
Howevever, that script is way more efficient and fast.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Is there anyway to prevent the Daemon from running. Quitting it
Activity Monitor isn't a big deal and I could automate this with
Quickeys. However, its a bit of a nuisance. I got an iMac and I am
sync'g my Macbook Pro with the iMac. Entourage's main identity will
only sync over from the Macbook Pro to the iMac if I quit the Daemon.
Doing this everytime I want to sync the two computers is a bit of
hassle.

The daemon must always run while Entourage is running but if you disable
Spotlight indexing, disable Office Reminders and don't run My Day then
the daemon will be removed from your Login Items and will not run while
Entourage is quit.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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