On 7/5/02 4:34 am, "Jack Countryman" wrote: > I seem to get all sorts of lockups in Entourage 2001 these days. Often it > locks up and crashes the mac before even getting all the way open. A > re-install is somewhat better, but looses the access to my addressbook, > calendar, etc. I can�t rebuild from inside entourage due to the > lockups/crashes. Is there some way to rebuild the entourage database, etc. > without running entourage to do it? Thanks.
You say you "can't rebuild from inside Entourage..." - do you mean you can't rebuild by holding down option key when starting entourage? If you do this, do you get the dialog that asks what sort of rebuild you want to do? Or does E crash/freeze before that? If so, it is probably something more deep seated than the database. If you don't get as far as that I'd try moving the Microsoft folder out of the preferences folder and restarting - it may be that something is corrupted there. Another likely problem is a corrupt font - move all but the most basic out of the fonts folder - especially any that are used for display in Entourage (I'm not sure what the defaults were for E2001, probably verdana, Geneva and maybe courier or palatino) If you are getting as far as starting the rebuild but having it crash on you part way through, restart with all extensions off, give Entourage the maximum possible memory available and try again. You will also need to have at least twice as much free space on your disk as the size of your Entourage database. -- Barry Wainwright <http://www.barryw.net> Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. -- 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/>
