Have you run a tool like Disk First Aid lately? If your machine is making
funny noises, it could be a bad sign...
on 7/10/01 4:53 PM, Bill Cheeseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A provocative question, but I've wondered for a long time whether it is safe
> to entrust my personal information to Entourage. At the moment, I think not.
>
> Entourage's architecture requires that I put all my calendar, address book
> and email data into about three files, in the "Main Identity" folder of the
> "Microsoft User Data" folder, in a standard setup. For a heavy user, such as
> me, the Main Identity folder can grow to 150 MB or more in size. Adding even
> a single address, appointment, or email message updates one of these files.
> As a result, Retrospect or a similar backup utility must duplicate the
> entire file in question -- 50 or 75 MB, perhaps -- every time it does an
> incremental backup, instead of just adding the several email messages or
> appointments that have been added to the program since the last backup. This
> discourages backups, big time. I asked the Microsoft presenters about this
> in the Entourage session at MacWorld Expo in January, and they acknowledged
> that there is no way to do incremental backups of the last few additions to
> the files.
>
> So, now, there's something wrong with one of my Entourage files. I can work
> with the files just fine in Entourage, but I can't make any backups or
> copies whatsoever. If I use my standard Retrospect backup script, about half
> way into it my hard disk starts making weird noises, the machine locks up,
> and I must do a hard restart. If I try to duplicate the files in the Finder
> or copy them to another folder, I get the same noise and the same lockup.
> The scariest thing is that when I do an Option-Launch on Entourage, to
> rebuild the files, I get the same noise and the same lockup. In other words,
> I cannot back up my Entourage data in any way, and I am utterly reliant on a
> file I know to be corrupt.
>
> The only cure I can think of is to find or write an AppleScript to pull all
> the data out of my Entourage files, one record at a time, into FileMaker Pro
> or whatever. If I have to do that, you can bet that I will not bring them
> back into another Entourage file. I will instead find some other program or
> programs in which I can design a more workable backup and rescue system.
>
> Am I overlooking something? I sure hope so. Can anybody give me any help
> with this problem?
>
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