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This post is going to be very helpful for the users who don’t have Time Machine and cannot backup data or user accounts on regular basis. For such users, its hard time in case they have to migrate the data on a new drive. Although there are many options available, but this is the simplest ever and would take just few steps to do it (though it might take hours depending on the data you are taking backup of). We are going to perform this with the help of Disk Utility. So lets start: Go to Disk Utility i.e. open Application > Utilities > Disk Utilities from Finder From the Disk Utility application, select ‘New Image’ from the toolbar or Go to File> New> Blank Disk Image Give a name to it and proceed Save this file out, you can add compressing and encryption if you feel like, remembering that it will add to the compressing and decompression time. Compression is useful if you are short of space. This process might take few hours b

Ever tried to find where is your data stored on a Mac? Each component of Entourage like rules, mailing lists, signatures, messages, address book, schedules, contacts, tasks, notes, calendar are located in a so called database under your identity: Try to locate 'Main' folder. Your Identity is named 'Main' by default. In Entourage 2008 this folder would be in /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/your identity. In Entourage 2004 this folder would be in /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/your identity. In Entourage X this folder would be in /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/your identity. Old to Blogs? Become a master