I should say "hopefully" solved. I'd tried everything: repairing permissions, trashing preferences, using the Remove tool, reinstalling, creating a new user, rebuilding the database, etc. Nothing worked until about five minutes ago.
Going on Paul's observation: > 2) It's possible that the original database is occupying space on your hard > drive which contains bad blocks. Or perhaps is just badly fragmented (unusual > in OS X, but possible), The process of copying the database finds new > contiguous space on the disk, and you'd have no problem in the new identity. I duplicated ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ and renamed the old copy. Then I launched Entourage and the error message was gone. Whew! The drive is brand new so I never considered the bad block idea. Hopefully that's all that's going on here, but the application feels quite a bit more responsive than it has been feeling, and all seems well. Thank you, Paul! And thanks to everyone else who offered help and suggestions. I greatly appreciate it! Bill -- 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/>
