On 12/19/04 4:58 AM, "revDAVE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A while back, I switched from using entourage X on an older Mac to a newer
> one. I dragged my user folder over to the new computer, started using it and
> everything was basically fine. However, I have 2 separate identities ( one
> for e-mail list data),  and I noticed that one of them always needed me to
> put the password and for the older file shared Mac before it would get the
> mail ( even though wasn�t using the older Mac anymore for this purpose).
> 
> Recently, I updated to Office 2004, and it appears that the same thing is
> basically happening ... however now, this particular identity just waits for
> ever to get the mail, until I actively take the older Mac out of sleep mode,
> where it appears to connect to something it needs ... and then go on and get
> the mail. 
> 
It sounds like you have an alias on the new computer for this identity. Do a
Get Info on the Identity.

> So it seems as though somehow this particular identity is somehow connected
> to the old Mac, even though the user folder is on the New computer.
> 
>  Question: is there some kind of preference or something that I can change
> or delete to fix this problem? ( as a last resort - I could recreate this
> identity from scratch - but I would rather no

If it's not an alias, then check permissions. Compare the permissions of an
Identity that works to the one that is asking for the password.

-- 
Diane Ross, Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Blog <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> lists the EHP as one of
the top five resources.





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