Deleting and rebuilding don't do the same thing. Deleting removes _everything_, including your local folders and other items that don't exist on the server. Rebuilding maintains those items, then clears the cache of server-based items and forces a reload.
I guess they're functionally the same if you don't store anything locally, but they're not _actually_ the same. Out of curiousity, what version of Exchange server are you running? Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip Mendelson Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:51 AM To: Entourage:mac Talk Subject: Behavior with Exchange server I am having a problem with Entourage on my Powerbook that is rendering it useless: Entourage all of a sudden stopped downloading new email messages, though it continued to update Calendar events and Contacts. I ran Database Utility and it did tell me that it was corrupted. Here is where the behavior of Entourage with an Exchange server becomes totally incomprehensible. When 'rebuilding' the database, it doesn't really rebuild it.....you might as well just delete it, because it forces a re-sync of EVERYTHING...Calendar, email, contacts. So, why bother, and why would this kind of behavior be built in? In any event, after doing this, it download three fourths of my Inbox, some of my folders, all of my Contacts, and NONE of my Calendar events. It now sits there saying it is syncronizing, but doing essentially nothing but downloading SOME of my new messages. Can anyone help? This is the latest in a long line of problems I have had with Entourage on my desktop G5 and my Powerbook G4. Honestly, if it were not for the Exchange syncronization and Calendar integration (which itself is very unpredictable), I would have given up a long time ago. OS X 10.4.5 G4 Powerbook Thanks for any help that can be provided. Phil Mendelson -- 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/> -- 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/>
