Relocating emails

[Linda]

I have a large external drive that I prefer emails to be located on.

I recently purchased a Macbook. It is a dual boot for Mac OS X and
Windows Vista. So, having both OS on the Macbook means there is not
that much extra memory. Emails would preferably be located on the
external drive.

I was easily able to do this in the past with Outlook on a Windows
laptop. I was able to do it with Thunderbird as well on this Mac. I
am not satisfied though with TB and so am moving to Entourage. But, I
can't figure out how to map the folders in Entourage so that they are
located on the external drive.

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Linda

 

[john.]

I have a large external drive that I prefer emails to be located on.

I recently purchased a Macbook.  It is a dual boot for Mac OS X and
Windows Vista.  So, having both OS on the Macbook means there is not
that much extra memory. Emails would preferably be located on the
external drive.

I was easily able to do this in the past with Outlook on a Windows
laptop.  I was able to do it with Thunderbird as well on this Mac.  I
am not satisfied though with TB and so am moving to Entourage.  But, I
can't figure out how to map the folders in Entourage so that they are
located on the external drive.

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Linda

Hello,
I am not 100% sure if this will work but have you tried the following:

Navigate to Main Identity , User -- Documents ---- Microsoft User Data
--- Office 2008 Indentities -----Main Identity

Move this whole folder to the external Drive, create an alias of the
folder after you have moved it, then put the Alias back in the
original Office 2008 Identities folder .

I have not tried this, but used a similar scheme on other
applications.
John

 

[Ed Kimball]

Hello,
I am not 100% sure if this will work but have you tried the following:

Navigate to Main Identity , User -- Documents ---- Microsoft User Data
--- Office 2008 Indentities -----Main Identity

Move this whole folder to the external Drive, create an alias of the
folder after you have moved it, then put the Alias back in the
original Office 2008 Identities folder .

I have not tried this, but used a similar scheme on other
applications.
John

After you move the alias, ake sure you delete the word "alias" from the end
of the alias name that Mac OS created, so that the name of the alias is
identical to the name of the original identity folder!

 

[Roberto Franceschetti]

I have a large external drive that I prefer emails to be located on.

I recently purchased a Macbook. It is a dual boot for Mac OS X and
Windows Vista. So, having both OS on the Macbook means there is not
that much extra memory. Emails would preferably be located on the
external drive.

I was easily able to do this in the past with Outlook on a Windows
laptop. I was able to do it with Thunderbird as well on this Mac. I
am not satisfied though with TB and so am moving to Entourage. But, I
can't figure out how to map the folders in Entourage so that they are
located on the external drive.

Help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Linda

I personally use MacDrive (mediafour.com). It allows my BootCamp partition
to see the "Macintosh HD" drive with the Mac files, and thus BootCamp can
then access my Microsoft files on the mac's partition.

 

[Diane Ross]

Move this whole folder to the external Drive, create an alias

Symlinks are better. Think of them as aliases on steriods. There are several
utilities like Cocktail that will create a symlink, or you can use the
Terminal.

I use a contextual menu, SymbolicLinker.

SymbolicLinker <http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html>

Symbolic link - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link>

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Aliases are not usable by most command-line utilities.

Symbolic links are pointers to *locations*. Aliases are pointers to
*objects*. For most tasks, I think aliases are more useful; but each has
its strengths and pitfalls.

That's a fairly good description of what they are. Because aliases are
useless with shell scripts and other low level tasks, I usually favor
symlinks if I know I'm not going to move the element I need to point to.

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

Whoa there Diane... I wouldn't go so far as to say symbolic links are
better than aliases, or even that they are akin to aliases on steroids.
Some facts about aliases and symbolic links:

Personally, I've seen more reports of symlinks working better when you move
the Microsoft User Data folder than alias files. YMMV

Either choice is not life threatening to the user. No data loss happens with
either choice. It's just what Entourage is better able to link to your data.
If Entourage does lose that link, it will open with a new Identity in your
Documents folder Microsoft User Data folder.