Entourage had the ability to "switch identities." An identity was a competely separate user profile; if you made a new identity, it was as if you had started a fresh copy of Entourage. It was originally indented for multiple user situations, dating back from the Mac OS 9 days before there were ...
Why Entourage Sucks
Entourage causes so many problems, mostly due to its large database. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Fg_T6c8W0 Transcript of the video: The truth is that as an application, Microsoft Entourage is not bad, but what really sucks is that it stores everything--all the mail, all the calendar, all the ...
Reliable Entourage Backup Using Applescript
Entourage is very difficult to back up because it stores all of its data (every email message for every email account, and every account itself, and every contact and every calendar) in a great big file--a database. It's a fragile database, and if it becomes corrupted, it has a utility to try to ...
IMAP Versus POP Mail on the Mac
There are 2 ways your email can be set up: POP and IMAP. Do you know the difference between POP and IMAP? Read on! POP POP stands for Post Office Protocol. It is a standard way for computers to send and retrieve email. Most mail hosts, including Yahoo and Gmail, support POP. If your mail is set ...
Entourage Database Problems on Your Mac
If you use Entourage on your Mac for your mail, how many times has the program told you that your email database is corrupted? Because of the way Entourage stores mail (in one giant file), if even one email has a problem with it, the entire database may be unusable. There are a few solutions or ...
Moving to Outlook for Mac from Entourage: Tips
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is out, and included is the much-anticipated Outlook for Mac. By the way, make sure you buy the Home and Business edition; the Home and Student edition doesn't include Outlook. (And yes, it makes no sense that one is called "Home and Business" and the other is called ...