Re: keeping mail identities on Flash Drive

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Thanks Mickey. Your strategy did indeed solve the problem. For anyone
else reading this, I started a separate thread to deal with the issue
and the solution is explained in more detail there. Includes a link to
a site wiht a ready to go script to use.

Here is the link to the thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/browse_thread/thread/7400da0eb7fb1b49/d7541306474e3079#d7541306474e3079

Here is the website for the script:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/daemon.html

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On Jan 26, 5:10 pm, Mickey Stevens <mickey.stev...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
You may be able to take care of this by quitting the Database Daemon after
you quit out of all of the other Office applications, before you try to
unmount the drive.

You can do this using Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities/ or using
a simple script

tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit

that you can save someplace convenient and run whenever you need to quit the
Database Daemon.

On 1/16/07 5:42 PM, in article
1168990946.800149.285...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dr Q"



<drmo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just to close the loop. I was successful in getting Entourage to use an
identity saved on a flash drive across multiple drives. There is one
minor snag that I will submit in a new post. It seems that even after I
quit Entourage, it does not "release" the flash drive so I can eject
it. If I logout or shut down it is fine but MacOS won't eject because
it thinks the drive is in use.

Dr Q wrote:
good news and bad news. Bad news is The new flash drive I got was not
working properly so I needed to exchange it and I have not been able to
try it on a flash drive. Good news is that I was able to use an
external HD to test this and it worked fine.

I copied my main identity to my external HD (connected via firewire)
and renamed the folder. i used mobile identity. I put an alias to the
mobile identity in the office 2004 identities. Then from within
Entourage I used switch identities. The alias showed up as valid
identity and I was able to switch

While I was not able to test it with the flash drive. I would not
expect it to be a problem based my test.

Hope this helps.

dan.augsbur...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Did you get this to work? I am about to travel for two months and would
like to take my main identity file with me on a flash drive.

Dr Q wrote:
Thanks. I was thinking using change Identities and then selecting the
identity from the flash drive might also work. It may be a while before
I can try it. I still need to get the 4GB flash drive. =)

--
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>


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