About two weeks ago I discovered that my Entourate Main Identity database was corrupt and could not be rebuilt. Actually, an advanced rebuild succeeded, but afterwards my mail from approximately December 14 to January 28 was missing. Several of you provided me with helpful suggestions.
Somewhat capriciously, I discovered that I could still open the original (damaged) database, so I exported all my mail from December 14 to January 28 to Mboxes (one Mbox per mail folder), then imported the Mboxes one at a time into the new database. Things have been going along just fine until today, when I decided to set up some backup software and discovered that the program couldn't copy my database file. A Finder copy failed as well (error -36) after copying 68 Mbytes of my 70.9 Mbyte database file. There are many gigabytes of empty space on my drive, so it's not a simple "drive is full" problem. I tried to do a typical rebuild, and this failed after tallying only 2000 of the 14508 items to compact. The advanced rebuild I did at the end of January, while it truncated the database, created a file that seemed to be OK (the rebuilt database could be rebuilt a second time without errors). Back then, the first step of the rebuild would seem to complete, whereas now the progress bar gets only about 20% of the way to completion. Is it possible that I reintroduced garbage data when I imported one of the Mbox files? I don't use Entourage yet as my PIM because MS hasn't yet released a Palm Conduit, but of course I have some email addresses in my address book that were imported from Emailer. Is it possible that the corrupt data is in that portion of the file? Would there be any value in trying to export all my accumulated mail to one of the FileMaker Pro archive databases, then creating a new database? Of course I'm still clinging to hope that I can somehow recreate an integrated database that I'll be able to search without having to open another program, but I'll take whatever I can get! Thanks so much. Jim Robertson -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
