Microsoft Entourage – I really hate you!
So, I did the archive and instal, and still no dice… I would think that my reinstall of the OS would have repaired whatever sort of damage I done to my Rosetta stuff using Monolingual, but no. MS Word, Excel,¬† Powerpoint all launch… Entourage will launch, but not using the identity I want to use – a 2.52GB database of 3-4 years worth of emails.
The database utility says that nothing is wrong with the database, it validates just fine… However, I tried using it on another Intel Mac I have and no dice. Tomorrow, I’m trying to load the identity on an old Power Mac G4 Tower, in the hopes that using a PowerPC based Mac will load the identity… A longshot, I know.
My choices after look to involve using EntourAid and just pulling all the emails out of it that I can… and then what? Use Entourage? I don’t feel so good about that. The thought of using VMWare just to check my email on Outlook seems kinda crazy, too… anyone out there doing this?
What’s the deal? Anyone out there using Entourage can shed some light on my situation?
What’s the chance of Office 2008 for the Mac going Community Technology Preview (aka Public Beta)? Just want to get this identity loaded and export my data.
Whimper.
Posted on May 22, 2007
TJ Downes May 22
With Outlook the “database” is a PST file and can often be recovered using recovery tools. Im curious if those tools exist for Entourage?
A couple of things you might try
http://www.kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=268322
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/office2001/using.aspx?pid=usingoffice2001&type=howto&article=/mac/library/feature_articles/ent/rebuild_database.xml
Also, a good backup solution will help avoid these sort of issues in the future. I purchased a huge disk (300GB) that does a full backup every night, including my email. The cost of the disk was about $100, and its a great way to ensure you can go back in time and recover files.