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Sandra Gulland
I'm using Entourage 2004, Panther, and tying to sync Entourage between
my networked PowerBook G4 and iMac. The PowerBook is my main comupter.
I followed Paul Berkowitz's suggestion to copy the Main Identity
folder from one computer into the other. I quit Entourage on both
computers and disconneceted from the Net before doing so. Even so, I
keep getting a variety of messages saying that the folder can't be
copied because something is "in use" (identies, signatures, database
etc.) What gives? In Entourage 2001, I had to make a copy of the
Identity file and transfer that over; I tried that and it didn't work
either.
I've used Sync Entourage - Address Book to sync to the Address Book;
is there a way to use Sync to syne the files from the PowerBook to the
iMac?
Here is Paul Berkowitz's suggestion to someone on another thread:
The simplest way is to regularly copy your identity folder from the
more
up-to-date computer to the other one, overwriting. You need to have
the name
of your identity the same on both computers - by default, if you
haven't
changed it, it's "Main Identity". If you _have_ changed it (at "Switch
Identity...") in one Entourage, do the same in the other.
Your identity folder is found on each computer here:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/Main
Identity/
where "~" means your OS user folder (actually at /Users/[username]/).
The
Documents folder is the one appearing in the left bar of Finder
windows, at
the bottom.
All you need to do is copy the "Main Identity" folder - which contains
your
Database and support files which must be kept together - to the Office
2004
Identities folder in the same place on the other computer, replacing.
That
will update everything - messages, contacts, calendar, etc. - all in
one
fell swoop. It does mean that you'll have the same mail accounts in
both
places too. (If you can't use one of them at the other location,
that's OK.
Just remember to not remove it from the Send & Receive All schedule
there.)
my networked PowerBook G4 and iMac. The PowerBook is my main comupter.
I followed Paul Berkowitz's suggestion to copy the Main Identity
folder from one computer into the other. I quit Entourage on both
computers and disconneceted from the Net before doing so. Even so, I
keep getting a variety of messages saying that the folder can't be
copied because something is "in use" (identies, signatures, database
etc.) What gives? In Entourage 2001, I had to make a copy of the
Identity file and transfer that over; I tried that and it didn't work
either.
I've used Sync Entourage - Address Book to sync to the Address Book;
is there a way to use Sync to syne the files from the PowerBook to the
iMac?
Here is Paul Berkowitz's suggestion to someone on another thread:
The simplest way is to regularly copy your identity folder from the
more
up-to-date computer to the other one, overwriting. You need to have
the name
of your identity the same on both computers - by default, if you
haven't
changed it, it's "Main Identity". If you _have_ changed it (at "Switch
Identity...") in one Entourage, do the same in the other.
Your identity folder is found on each computer here:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/Main
Identity/
where "~" means your OS user folder (actually at /Users/[username]/).
The
Documents folder is the one appearing in the left bar of Finder
windows, at
the bottom.
All you need to do is copy the "Main Identity" folder - which contains
your
Database and support files which must be kept together - to the Office
2004
Identities folder in the same place on the other computer, replacing.
That
will update everything - messages, contacts, calendar, etc. - all in
one
fell swoop. It does mean that you'll have the same mail accounts in
both
places too. (If you can't use one of them at the other location,
that's OK.
Just remember to not remove it from the Send & Receive All schedule
there.)