Inside the Microsoft User Data folder there are other folders: However there is not excel files in this folder, only. Users/Username/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 AutoRecovery. When I search for "Office 2011 AutoRecovery" in the finder, I find one in: In the Application Support folder, there is no "Office 2011 AutoRecovery. I only have library folder inside Macintosh HD or inside Macintosh HD / System / Library. To add a bit of confusion, profiles where called ‘identities’ up to Outlook 2011. Though they are managed very differently to Outlook for Windows, the basics are the same on both.
#OFFICE 2011 IDENTITIES FOLDER FOR MAC#
However I do not have a Library folder inside "Username". Outlook for Mac also has Profiles to manage multiple setups on the one machine. Support/ Microsoft/Office/Office 2011 AutoRecovery. Some people use POP3 and the only copy of their email is on their local computer.and it's a big deal when they loose years and years and years of email for some reason.I've read in sevral forums that the the autorecover location on Excel 2011 for mac is: /Users/ username /Library/Application Personally I would just resync mail from the server, but not everyone uses Exchange. If it worked, everything is now on your new Mac.
#OFFICE 2011 IDENTITIES FOLDER FULL#
Hmph and they say MACs are easier!Macs are user friendly, they're just picky about their friends! Possibly not necessary but I suggest: Run Outlook on the new Mac, make a dummy/non-functional setup, quit Outlook, ensure the Database Daemon is stopped (as noted above), and copy your source "Default Identity" into the target location (after moving the "dummy" setup folder to the Desktop). Prior to copying the Main Identity folder, I recommend ensuring the database is inactive by stopping Microsoft Database Daemon - Quit all office apps & use the Activity Monitor utility to look for a process by that name (it might not show as it might stop on its own), and if present, kill the process. If any other/alternate identities were ever set up, you'll need to sort that out. (just note that in 10.10 the Office 2011 prefs are stored in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft rather than /Library/Preferences - but you shouldn't need those, or might not). The Outlook for Mac identity is stored in Users//Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity Well, the Migration Assistant is a Very Nice Idea but I don't use it because I've seen it mess up too much, too many times.