Mac Forum / General / Networking / December 2004

I'm assuming you're trying to run OE in OS X, under Classic environment?
I had a sort of similar issue a long time back, so I'm a little fuzzy
on what I did to get OE usable for other users of the computer who
preferred it at the time.
I _think_ what I ended up doing was to either move, copy or alias the
Identities folder into the "Documents" folder created in OS 9 on the top
level of the hard drive (this is not the "Documents" folder in your OS X
user directory). In the "Documents" folder should be a "Microsoft User
Data" folder, within which are folders: Sound Sets, Script Menu Items,
OE Temp, Import Mappings, and, Identities. In the Identities folder
should be either the original or a valid alias to the Identity folder
you want to use. So path should be MacintoshHD>Documents>Microsoft User
Data>Identities>USERNAME FOLDER (with messages etc files).
For a few reasons I had put the "original" Identities folder in the OS X
Users>Shared Documents folder, and made an alias to it in the root level
Documents>MS User Data etc, path. I think I may have done that as a
kludge workaround for some multi-user permissions issues, which may not
apply to your situation.
Basically I think OE wants to see the Identities folder where it expects
it. Don't know how or why Panther install would have displaced it.
I just finally migrated my wife off of OE to OS X mail. The process of
importing mailboxes, messages and contacts was pretty easy and quick,
and she does prefer the "look and feel" of Mail to that of OE.