[stoneage]

First, I have everything backed up. I gave my son my eMac when I bought a new iMac. I have his whole user folder on my desktop on the new iMac. I cleaned up the eMac and made new users for his small business. I have all the files and documents he needs, and he can sort them out as need be, but when he opened Entourage there was no mail. Do I have to drag the old iMac back to his place to migrate information, or can I somehow send his Microsoft user folder to him? I tried to open the mail messages on my new iMac and forward them, but I got nervous about losing something. There is a two week gap between the saved info and now. We just don't want to lose the last two weeks of messages. I contacted the ISP, but the messages aren't stored on the server. I would appreciate any help.

[rickey939]

Drag the following "Microsoft User Data" folder from the back-up over to the new machine and put it into the same location...

Macintosh HD > Users > Documents > Microsoft User Data

All your Entourage databases are held within that location.

[mchladek]

I'm assuming, though, that your son's eMac has the last two weeks of messages on his eMac. He just needs the messages that are older than two weeks that are on your iMac. Correct?

In that case, if you drag the Microsoft User Data folder over to his eMac it would replace any messages he has received on his eMac. What you can do instead, which should prevent this problem is in Entourage on your iMac go to File > Export... > Export as Entourage Archive and select mail and anything else on your iMac that he may need. Then send that archive to him and have him in Entourage go to File > Import...> Import Entourage Archive and select the archive you sent him. That should import the messages older than two weeks that are on the iMac w/o removing the new messages that are on the eMac.

[stoneage]

I have created new users on the eMac. I have his old user folder on two machines. Can I just drag everything in the old user folder (named X) into the new machines user folder (named Y), or should I make a new user with the same name as the old? The reason this got complicated is because he has two Office folders, X and 2004, and I didn't want to goof up and lose the info. Should I do this manually in Target Disk Mode or can I safely use the Migration Assistant at this point? Sorry for being such a scaredy cat.