10.7: Update for making Entourage play well with Time Machine

Nov 18, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: pglock

I'd been using this hint to backup my Microsoft User Data for Entourage 2008.

I have been using Office Communicator 2011 sucessfully but, since upgrading to Lion I've had crashes and over the last few weeks have been unable to login with a message about clock settings or certificates.

Some background: my company is using an older version of Exchange (2003) with a newer version of OCS (2007) so I have both 2008 and 2011 versions of Office installed and am stuck with using Entourage until an Exchange upgrade next year.

Some searching suggested that some other Office apps do not behave when files are not in standard locations. I wondered if the method used to create an alias via the Finder to the Office 2008 Identities folder in the above Entourage hint was causing problems.

I deleted the alias and used the terminal to create a Unix symbolic link by entering the following:

ln -s /Volumes/Office_2008_Identities/Office\ 2008\ ~/Dcuments/Microsoft\ User\ Data/Identities/Office\ 2008\
Office Communicator and Entourage are both working OK now.

[crarko adds: A good reminder that a Finder alias and a symbolic link are two different things, despite some similarities.]

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