Entourage Database problem

2008-07-25 Thread Peter Rasmusen




Hello Good People

A friend on mine who uses Mac OS X 10.5.4 and Microsoft Office X ran 
into a problem, where Enrourage said The Database is 4GB and  
rebuild the database.


We agreed this was a good time to clean up her inbox.

However ... when we rebuild the database ...  it takes forever and 
nothing happens. Progress bar didn't move a fraction of an inch and 
Enrourage froze every time we tried.


We left it running for almost 48 hours and still nothing seemed to happen.


So I figured maybe a newer version of Office could handle that big 
(too big, agreed) database. So she bought Office 2008 and we 
installed it and it asked if we wanted to delete the old Office X ... 
which we did.


Tried restarting Entourage and it asked if we wanted to import from 
an older version and we said Yes and selected Office X and it 
apparently found the old database and imported it.


It took about 1/2 second and theres 1 mail in the inbox  Welcome 
to Microsoft Entourage.


Thank you so much!

Now ... in Documents/Microsoft User Data there's a folder named 
Office 2008 Identities and a folder named Office X Indentities.


Office 2008 Identities holds about 28.3 MB of data

Office X Identities holds about 8.23 GB of data (because there's not 
only a Database file, there's also a file called Old Database  - both 
files are 4 GB).


And now we're stuck.

What would be my next step?

Can I import that database to another app like Mail or Eudora or 
Thunderbird or .. and move on from there???


Can anybody walk us through this? All hints, tips and solutions will 
be appreciated.


Peter

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Re: Entourage Database problem

2008-07-25 Thread Diane Ross
Peter Rasmusen wrote:

 And now we're stuck.
 
 What would be my next step?
 
 Can I import that database to another app like Mail or Eudora or
 Thunderbird or .. and move on from there???

Most likely not.
 
 Can anybody walk us through this? All hints, tips and solutions will
 be appreciated.

Read this article:

Rebuilding a damaged database that exceeded size limit

http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/09/rebuilding_a_damaged_database_that_e
xceeded_size_limit.html

In case the above link does not work:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6qv3

I have been successful in rescuing an Entourage X database, but it's not a
free service. As you have already found it's a very time consuming process.
You can contact me off list to discuss your situation.

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Diane 


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