What would cause the Entourage database to simply disappear? Here's what happened. My sister's eMac (OSX 10.3.3, Office X) wouldn't boot up. It would get to the grey screen with the Apple logo and sit there forever. (I suspect she had been letting her kids bang on the keyboard again and they did something.) After much troubleshooting, I was finally able to do an Archive and Reinstall.
But once I rebooted and launched Entourage, it opened up a completely empty database. I did a search of the hard drive and old database was nowhere to be found. (I searched other Users folders too, nothing there. I also checked the Previous System folder.) Nothing in the trash, no evidence at all of the very large file. (Do I even have to mention that she didn't have a current backup? She'll learn to backup now.) So where did it go? Did I do something wrong in the Archive and Reinstall? Was it a mistake to launch Entourage before running Software Update and bringing everything back up to date? Are there any command line tricks to use to "undelete" the files? At the moment, I've told them to go buy Norton Systemworks or whatever the Apple Store Genius recommends and try to undelete the files. (If it's relevant, the database was a mess to begin with. For one thing, there were literally about 15,000 messages in the Sent messages folder. Despite my advice, she'd never cleaned it up.) Any help would be appreciated. -- Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://www.bettnet.com/> The Bettnet blog <http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php> Catholic World News <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.cwnews.com/> Managing Editor, Catholic World Report magazine -- 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/>
