[seesyong]

Hi all,

I've been trying to backup my entourage files:
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/Database Cache
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/Database
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/Mailing Lists
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/Rules
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity/Signatures

by zipping them up. Unfortunately when I try to unzip them, those files lose their type association. Those files become basic documents that have no association to entourage. Since entourage doesn't recognize them, I can't restore my email files from them.
Is there any program that saves the type association related to these entourage files?

Thanks for any help you can provide it. I really really REALLY appreciate it!

[Cold Warrior]

you could try a compressed disk image created from the 'main identity' folder.
Using disk utility, you can create disk images from folders.

[seesyong]

Your idea worked! It did preserve the file type association.

I have one more question. Do you know if there's any way to automate that? My goal is to automate the zipping process. Thanks, again for you help!

[Cold Warrior]

if you have Tiger (10.4), you should be able to create an Automater task to take care of this.
If you don't have Tiger, you should look at applescript.

[seesyong]

I'm using 10.3 right now, but yeah I'm actually thinking about upgrading to 10.4. I'll have to definite check that out. Thanks for the valuable information!