I've been running Entourage (with the Service Release 1) for a long time now (since it was released). Never any problems, until now.
I've been Running Mac OS X (10.1, w/the update). Yesterday I booted back into 9.2.1 for some testing. I was running Entourage like I normally do. Got home, woke up my PowerBook (G4), and switched locations to "Home". This, among other things, runs a script to change the SMTP server in my Entourage accounts and removes an account from the Send/Receive schedule. Every thing worked fine. I woke up the PowerBook the next morning, Entourage tried to connect (I think it actually downloaded some messages), and complained about "End of File". Subsequent attempts to retrieve messages kept getting the same error. So I quit and re-launched. On startup, Entourage complained about "End of File". I tried a Typical rebuild. Entourage complains that there is not enough disk space to save the database. The entire folder is 215 MB, and there are 1.3 GB free on disk. So I tried an Advanced rebuild. It complained about "End of File", then said that any errors other than out-of-memory errors probably indicate that the DB cannot be rebuilt. I've tried removing files, one at a time, from the Main Identity folder and re-starting Entourage. I determined that the files it's complaining about are either the DB or the DB cache (when I remove them, Entourage launches normally; it does not, however, show my my mail). If I remove those files and rebuild, Entourage does not find my email. I have many contacts that I'd like to not lose. Most of them are in my Palm V, but the Palm V doesn't organize the data quite the same way. All my email is POP. I have a couple dozen rules, a couple dozen List handlers, and a couple dozen mailboxes. If the Microsoft engineer responsible for the Entourage DB is lurking, I'll take you flying in my airplane if you can help me repair the damage and recover my contacts, schedule and email. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------ Roderick Mann rmann @ latencyzero.com.sansspam -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
