user data lkocation

Because of the rather small disk space available for jaguar on a PWB
Wallstreet, 6 GB, I need to move as much files as possible from the 6
GN OS X partition to another partition on a 20 GB internal disk.
I noticed that microsoft user data in home/documents folder took much
place, 1 GB.
Is it possible to move this user data folder to another place in
another partition ?

Paul
Mon May 17 09:51:46 CDT 2004

On 5/17/04 7:36 AM, in article
8618fd2a.0405170636.5404c25a@posting.google.com, "Furiet" <furiet@noos.fr>
wrote:

> Because of the rather small disk space available for jaguar on a PWB
> Wallstreet, 6 GB, I need to move as much files as possible from the 6
> GN OS X partition to another partition on a 20 GB internal disk.
> I noticed that microsoft user data in home/documents folder took much
> place, 1 GB.
> Is it possible to move this user data folder to another place in
> another partition ?

Yes. Just make sure to create an alias (or symlink) to the MUD folder,
wherever it is, in the correct location in ~/Documents. (Otherwise Entourage
will make a new MUD folder with empty identity there. But it respects an
alias it finds there.) I do it myself

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furiet
Tue May 18 02:55:32 CDT 2004

Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote in message news:<BCCE1F92.6499C%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com>...
> On 5/17/04 7:36 AM, in article
> 8618fd2a.0405170636.5404c25a@posting.google.com, "Furiet" <furiet@noos.fr>
> wrote:
>
> > Because of the rather small disk space available for jaguar on a PWB
> > Wallstreet, 6 GB, I need to move as much files as possible from the 6
> > GN OS X partition to another partition on a 20 GB internal disk.
> > I noticed that microsoft user data in home/documents folder took much
> > place, 1 GB.
> > Is it possible to move this user data folder to another place in
> > another partition ?
>
> Yes. Just make sure to create an alias (or symlink) to the MUD folder,
> wherever it is, in the correct location in ~/Documents. (Otherwise Entourage
> will make a new MUD folder with empty identity there. But it respects an
> alias it finds there.) I do it myself
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
> MVP Entourage
> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>
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> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
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Thanks a lot, it works,...but one has to exchange the original alias
name, "Microsoft user data alias", with the name "Microsoft user
data", strictly identical to the original folder's name.

Paul
Tue May 18 12:13:22 CDT 2004

On 5/18/04 12:55 AM, in article
8618fd2a.0405172355.71cd0d8d@posting.google.com, "Furiet" <furiet@noos.fr>
wrote:

>> Yes. Just make sure to create an alias (or symlink) to the MUD folder,
>> wherever it is, in the correct location in ~/Documents. (Otherwise Entourage
>> will make a new MUD folder with empty identity there. But it respects an
>> alias it finds there.) I do it myself
>>
>> --
>> Paul Berkowitz
>> MVP Entourage
>> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
>> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>>
>> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
>> ignored.
>>
>> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
>> or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
> Thanks a lot, it works,...but one has to exchange the original alias
> name, "Microsoft user data alias", with the name "Microsoft user
> data", strictly identical to the original folder's name.

If you move the original to its new location - and since it's on another
partition that's not actually a 'move' but a copy - you then need to delete
the original. Then command-option-drag the copy on the other partition back
to the original location. That makes an alias that doesn't have the word
'alias' appended and you don't need to change anything. Command-option-drag
is the best way to make an alias for that reason. There's never any reason
why you'd want to have an alias in the same folder as the original, and it's
only if it's in the same folder that you get the ' alias' appended by the
Finder to avoid conflict. When you cmd-opt-drag from another folder, there's
never a problem.

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