What should do if need to do full erase and install

[kevs]

May have to do a full erase and install of HD -- not an archive and install,
but a full erase and reinstall of Office because of crazy OS permission
issues having.

So, want to ask:
I use Entourage, Excel, and Word. What should I keep in mind before doing
this?

I know with archive and install, everything will get imported beautifully,
but with erase and install, and then reinstalled office manually with cd --
what is the smoothest way to make sure all accounts in Entourage, and
everything in Word/Excel -- will come back ok. Thanks

Kevs

OS 10.4.1
Office 2004


OS 10.4.1
Office 2004

 

[Barry Wainwright]

May have to do a full erase and install of HD -- not an archive and install,
but a full erase and reinstall of Office because of crazy OS permission
issues having.

So, want to ask:
I use Entourage, Excel, and Word. What should I keep in mind before doing
this?

I know with archive and install, everything will get imported beautifully,
but with erase and install, and then reinstalled office manually with cd --
what is the smoothest way to make sure all accounts in Entourage, and
everything in Word/Excel -- will come back ok. Thanks

Kevs

Run the 'remove office' utility, which you will find here:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office/Remove
Office

This will remove the applications, preferences and all associated support
files.

It will not remove the 'Microsoft user Data' folder in your documents
folder, as this is where all the data is kept for entourage.

Before you run this, you may want to keep a copy of any templates you have
installed in the main templates folder in /Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Templates.

 

[matt neuburg]

May have to do a full erase and install of HD -- not an archive and install,
but a full erase and reinstall of Office because of crazy OS permission
issues having.

So, want to ask:
I use Entourage, Excel, and Word. What should I keep in mind before doing
this?

Nothing. I have done this twice in the last two weeks.

(1) I repartitioned a computer. That is, it has an internal drive with
one partition. I backed it up, erased the hard drive and partitioned it
into two, then restored to the first partition.

(2) I was having permission problems on a different computer. I backed
up. I erased. I installed the system. Then I copied stuff (not the
system itself, of course) into place from the backup.

Office worked fine afterwards, in both cases. m.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Run the 'remove office' utility, which you will find here:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office/Remove
Office

This will remove the applications, preferences and all associated support
files.

It will not remove the 'Microsoft user Data' folder in your documents
folder, as this is where all the data is kept for entourage.

Before you run this, you may want to keep a copy of any templates you have
installed in the main templates folder in /Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Templates.

Hmmm. Why should he remove Office if he's going to remove (erase) the entire
disk? What difference would it make?

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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[kevs]

Paul, you are correct. No need to uninstall if one is going to erase the HD.

Matt:
So, if one just backs up the MUD folder, and then puts the MUD folder into
new Documents folder of new user, everything should be aok, as far as
accounts, etc etc, as well as for rest of Office?

Is having to erase a HD because of permissions a common thing? Man, I'm
still not sure I'm going to do it, because of all the work involved.


Kevs

Hmmm. Why should he remove Office if he's going to remove (erase) the entire
disk? What difference would it make?

OS 10.4.1
Office 2004

 

[matt neuburg]

Paul, you are correct. No need to uninstall if one is going to erase the HD.

Matt:
So, if one just backs up the MUD folder, and then puts the MUD folder into
new Documents folder of new user, everything should be aok, as far as
accounts, etc etc, as well as for rest of Office?

Is having to erase a HD because of permissions a common thing? Man, I'm
still not sure I'm going to do it, because of all the work involved.

It can be a lot of work, and it helps to know what you're doing.

I don't quite know what is entailed by your notion of "just backs up the
MUD folder". We've already established that I routinely replace the
contents of my MUD folder with those from a different machine (as a way
of synching the two two machines) and that this works fine. But I
hestitate to say more on that topic, because your original question
implied that you going to back up *everything*, and this is what I was
responding too. Backing up everything, erasing the hard drive,
reinstalling the system, and copying stuff back into place, Office
should just work right off the bat afterwards. m.

 

[kevs]

Thanks so much Matt!

Kevs

It can be a lot of work, and it helps to know what you're doing.

I don't quite know what is entailed by your notion of "just backs up the
MUD folder". We've already established that I routinely replace the
contents of my MUD folder with those from a different machine (as a way
of synching the two two machines) and that this works fine. But I
hestitate to say more on that topic, because your original question
implied that you going to back up *everything*, and this is what I was
responding too. Backing up everything, erasing the hard drive,
reinstalling the system, and copying stuff back into place, Office
should just work right off the bat afterwards. m.

OS 10.4.1
Office 2004