OFF2001: Documents Folder Appears in the Root of the Hard Disk (278716)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Entourage 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 2001 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q278716 SYMPTOMS
A Documents folder appears in the root of the hard disk after you start an Office 2001 program.
CAUSE
Microsoft Entourage stores data such as preferences, rules, schedules, signatures, messages, contacts, and all other Entourage items in a database on your computer. The first time that you start Entourage, a new folder called the Microsoft User Data folder is created in the Documents folder. Within the Microsoft User Data folder, Microsoft Entourage creates a folder called Office 2001 Identities.
The Office 2001 Identities folder contains the Main Identity folder, which stores the data for the first identity. Each time that you create a new identity, Entourage adds a folder for that identify to the Microsoft Office 2001 Identities folder.
The Documents folder is stored at the root of the Macintosh hard disk to prevent users from deleting the folder. If you delete the Documents folder, all of your Entourage mail is deleted.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, you can move the Documents folder to the Preferences folder, which is located in the System folder.
You can also place the Microsoft User Data folder on an AppleShare server. If you do this, you must place an alias of the Microsoft User Data folder in either the Documents folder or the Preferences folder.
NOTE: It is not recommended that you store the User Data folder in the same folder as the Microsoft Entourage program. Some users who have done this have accidentally deleted their data when they deleted the program folder.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, see the Microsoft Entourage 2001 Read Me File, Section 5: Maintaining Your Microsoft Entourage Data.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 10/14/2002 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb KB278716 |
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