On 9/29/10 7:59 AM, "Jim Robertson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 9/28/10 12:34 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>There is a database but it does not contain the messages and other items >>as >> Entourage did. > >Any idea whether there's a "database" file for the entire Office Suite >that >is updated by opening any Office component or the Office Notifications >applet? I'll need to think a bit about keeping my POP3 account messages >"in >sync" on my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro computers (currently, I make certain >that all message traffic in and out is confined to one machine and that I >don't do anything that opens the Database Daemon on the other, then use >Synchronize! Pro X to get the newest data onto the machine that hasn't >been >in use just before I leave home and once again as soon as I return home). >Basically, that involves synchronizing my entire /user folder (Mac user, >not >MS Office main user folder), excluding a few other gargantuan >machine-specific files such as Windows VMs from the sync process). If the >"database" contains a pointer structure to the individual message files, >I'd >think it would be a real challenge to make the whole thing (database and >messages) Time Machine friendly! The new Database for Outlook is only significantly different from Entourage in one way: instead of storing all the mail messages (and other items) *within* the Database, Outlook stores the messages *outside* the Database as individual files. Outlook still has a Database, but because it contains no messages, it is significantly smaller in size. Overall, however, your Main Identity will still be about the same size. What¹s cool about this design is that you get all the speed of a database but you minimize data loss if your Database corrupts. Should your Database need repair, the Database Utility can rebuild it based on your message files. I would love to hear your experience using Outlook with Synchronize Pro! As far as synchronizing your MUD, that should go much faster because it will be dealing with thousands of smaller files that probably won¹t change quite so frequently. >>From your comments about list formatting, font sizes, tabs, etc., I'm >assuming this means that Outlook Mac isn't using the Word text rendering >engine the way Windows Office does for messages containing complex >formatting. That¹s correct. MacBU didn¹t make Outlook for Mac a clone of Outlook for Windows. Some folks will think that¹s good, others not so good. For all practical purposes, Outlook has what it needs for the majority of users needing HTML capabilities. They will finally be able to Forward rather than Forward as Attachment and they can copy/paste HTML-formatted data from Safari, Word and other applications without losing that formatting. You can¹t *create* a table in Outlook but you can paste one from most other applications. Hyperlinks are retained and formatting too. It¹s not perfect, but it¹s really good as it is. I don¹t recall where I read this but creating tables may be coming in an update. >> While a consolidated inbox will make the lives of many people a lot >>easier, >> some might not want to have this feature, preferring to keep their >>various >> inboxes separate. > >If I use the "unified inbox" in Outlook Mac 2011, then move received >messages from that inbox to "on my computer" folders after I read them, >what >happens to those messages as far as the IMAP and Exchange servers are >concerned? Just CREATING the IMAP/Exchange and Exchange accounts on my >computer configured default folders (drafts, sent items, deleted items, >junk >e-mail) for messages from those respective servers. Will those servers be >able to track messages moved to subfolders that I've created for messages >that previously held only traffic to/from my "routine" ISP's sendmail/POP3 >servers? The unified Inbox is just a view. Nothing gets moved. It¹s simply just a new way of viewing messages (like smart folders in Mail or Custom Views in Entourage). At any time, you have the option to view your folder pane as unified Inboxes, unified Drafts, unified Sent Items, etc., or view your folder pane by accounts. Also, while in the unified view you can twiddle open the disclosure triangle next to any of these unified folders to see the individual folders from each account. -- William Smith -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
