Greetings, My congratulations to the MS guys for a job well done with the Complex Rebuild feature.
I left my office to go have dinner, and when I returned, MacOS X was wedged hard. No cursor movement, no nothing. I rebooted the machine, and when I tried to open Entourage, I got a complaint of an "unknown error 4359". I rebooted into 9 so I could Disk First Aid the system (and I just feel a bit more comfortable in 9, still). I tried launching Entourage after running DFA, and I got the same error. So, I tried again holding Option and having it do a Basic Rebuild, but that failed with "The file is already open for writing". Then Entourage asked if I wanted to try a Complex Rebuild, and I said yes. Again it failed with the "already open for writing" error. I was pretty much in dismay, but finally, a little of my ex-Apple Engineer self clued in and I thought that maybe Entourage had left the file open when it first tried to launch. So, I rebooted, and then launched Entourage holding Option the first time. The Basic Rebuild failed and complained of 4359. Finally, I rebooted one last time and went straight to Complex Rebuild. Hooray! This worked beautifully, and I'm back up and running. Since my tape backup was a week old, this is a happy circumstance. Thanks MS team!! Congrats out of the way, we'll jump right into the "please fix". :-) Entourage team, sometimes if Entourage bails during startup, it looks like it leave the files open, preventing a database rebuild. This might cause people to give up hope and restore their databases from backup when it was actually recoverable. Best, --Mike -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
