Re: [WinMac] Moving Word mailmerge documents

Liam Helmer(liamh[at]axion.net)
Wed, 16 Dec 98 09:38:57 -0800

>Hello all,
>
>We are migrating from Appleshare servers to Windows NT servers. Everything
>looks fine with the servers, but there's a problem with Word 6.0 (Mac)
>documents that use mailmerging. Documents that were created for Mailmerging
>have a link to a datafile (I don't know the exact English terms, but in
>dutch it is 'Gegevensbestand'). These links still point to the old server.
>When the user is not connected to the old server, the Mac crashes with a
>type 11 bomb (System 7) or Word crashes with a type 2 error (OS 8).
>
>Is there any way to automaticly change these links? or at least to make
>Word open the file (with an errormessage) when the old server is not
>around? Otherwise I'll risk to have lots of documents which I can't open
>when the old servers are not around anymore.
>
>There are lots of files to change, so changing by hand is not really an
>option.
>
>With regards,
>
>Jeroen Camstra

What I would (try to) do is put all these documents in a shared folder on
the NT machine that is on the same Zone and has the same Machine Name as
did the Appleshare server. Then, the clients will be fooled into thinking
that it's actually the old server that they're connecting to... thus
preventing the crashes.

The other thing that you might want to do (just an idea, of course), is
ditching the AppleShare Prep files on the client machines, so that they
don't think that they're using the old server anymore. Then, I think that
Word should gracefully give an error message in that case.

BTW, in system 7, an error Type 11 is the same as system 8's error type
2, it's just that type 11 errors are incorrectly mapped on system 7.
Normally, the error is memory related, though I'm not sure that that's
the case here...

Cheers,
Liam

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