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A fix for an Entourage -5000 error
Authored by: Flugor on Apr 26, '05 07:49:33AM

Your way may make the problem "unvisible", but it still exists:

Entourage stores user-data within the systems "Application folder" which is not the way to do this.

User-data needs to be stored within the user-account (home-folder)

Microsoft recommends: "To run Entourage, you must have the administrative user remove the Identities folder from the application folder."

This means, that an old version of entourage used this _wrong_ place for storage and that you now "feel" the results of this fault.

If the "data at the wrong place" has been removed and the "application folder" has been set to not having write access for the "current" user, entourage should use the right place (somewhere within the users home-folder) for storage.

While the misuse of /Applications (or the "root-folder" of your hard-disk) for storage of user-data or temporary-data is quite common, it is still not the "legal" way under MacOSX.

Doing it this _wrong_ way is one of the reasons why the "Windows-world" suffers from so much worms and other malware.

Sources:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268323
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297273

"repairing permission" doesn't work in this case, because the disk-utility only uses the information of certain files within the /Library/Receipts hierarchy

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A fix for an Entourage -5000 error
Authored by: tegman on Jun 23, '05 12:50:27AM

thanks so much for this one.. this was driving me nuts too!!
your fix worked for me in this little situation.. i recently swaped a hard drive in each of two 500 Mhz slot loading imacs.. (G3's for the big brain from comment 2! hmmm...repairing permissions.. in os X.. very helpful!) and used retrospect to duplicate the original drives.. all worked fine EXCEPT.. this terminal error on both machines.. running completely different email accounts on two different versions of office AND Panther no less... somehow the permissions on the Temp folder were reset in the backup process.. and this little fix worked... thank you for the tip.. but then i read comment 3...and went looking for the violating file in the app folder.. and i can't seem to find anything that breaches the home folder... is there anything else that i could be?



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