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Planning to shift to Leopard? What to back-up? These series of posts will focus on Backing up important data in your Mac before going for the latest cat in town; Leopard! Whatever, method you opt for, its always good to be safe and back up important data of your mac! We’ll start off with backing up data of Microsoft Entourage 2004, a mail client on mac, usually preferred by people who are used to of outlook.

Entourage!

The entourage team has done a good job at explaining the back up process. Click Help and enter “Back up” (with a space in both words) and help brings the topic at top. See Image below:

We’ll use the same text provided in the help for explaination.

Entourage can export items such as mail messages, tasks, contacts, notes, and calendar events to an Entourage archive (.rge extension). This enables you to store information in another location and remove it from Entourage. You can also use this process to make a back up of your Entourage information (without removing the information from Entourage).

Some important notes:

When creating Entourage back ups and archives, keep the following in mind:

• Groups, notes with multimedia elements and category information for all items except contacts cannot be exported.
• When exporting messages stored on a mail server (such as IMAP accounts), the entire contents of the message can only be exported if it has been downloaded from the mail server.
• Even if you choose to delete items after exporting, messages stored on the mail server will not be deleted.

Backing Up!

1. Empty all Deleted Items folders to avoid getting items you do not want.
2. On the File menu, click Export.
3. Click Export items to an Entourage archive and select the items you want to include.
4. Under Archive the following item types, select the item types you want to include, and then click the right arrow to continue.

   

5. Choose whether or not you want to delete the items you are exporting and then click the right arrow to continue.

   

6. Enter a name for the archive file and a location to store it and then click Save

   

Restore!

To restore Entourage information

1. On the File menu, click Import.
2. Click Import information from an Entourage archive and then click the right arrow to continue.
3. Locate the .rge folder you want to import and then click Import.

Tips:

• If you need to refer to information stored in an archive temporarily and do not want the items imported into Entourage, create a new Identity and import the archived information into it. Then, when you are finished, you can simply delete the new Identity.

  This tip can also be used to confirm if the Back up is made completely and contains all data.

• If you want to explore the contents of an archive, hold down CONTROL while clicking the .rge folder and then click Show Package Contents.

Credits: Microsoft Entourage 2004