on 06/14/2003 12:10 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> 1) First priority is that Entourage will overwrite your IE preferences, this
>> is horrible, when can we expect a fix on this, it has been publicly
>> discussed for a long time now.
> 
> Is this why my IE prefs don't work anymore? This is pretty recent, though,
> and did not exist with earlier versions (earlier OS X versions) - it must
> have occurred in the last update.
>> 

Well about all I can find on this is that Entourage, Explorer, and Apple all
share the com.apple.internetconfig.plist.  This file stores MIME/suffix
mappings, some IE prefs, some Entourage prefs, and some apple prefs.
Somewhere I read that apple encouraged developers to pass off calls to this
file, so I think MS did the correct thing, and did as they were told.
However, in retrospect, the prefs probably need to be stored in a separate
location now, and it is probably a bear to go back as well.  I am pretty
sure the file is Base64, cause it is not humanly legible, but I can make
some patterns out that sure look base64'ish to me.  A whole lot of people do
not notice this, as either they don�t use Entourage, and wont ever have the
trouble, or, don�t quit entourage after explorer.  It gets tricky to get
Explorer to save the prefs, you have to be very religious about how you quit
apps, and to be even safer, to get them to stick, it is a good
idea/workaround to quit Entourage, take a trip to IE prefs, make a change,
save it, open back up, change it back, save it, and then quit, that is my
routine and it sometimes works :-)

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