On 1/29/02 7:17 AM, "Greg Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First of all, let me just ask that you either reply to the sender, or the > list, but not both. For example, I received two copies of your message and > one would have sufficed! :-) Sorry; I'm trying to be a good boy, honest I am. It's just that whenever I reply to one of the list messages extracted from the digest, Entourage doesn't include the list in the "to" field. I've just been adding the list to the recipients, but not deleting the original sender (you, in this case). I'll change my ways. I did have a selfish motive, of course. You and Diane were the people who were responding to my questions, so I wanted to be SURE my continuing dilemma passed through your inboxes. I posted to the list as well because I thought my problem and its solution (still hoping there IS one) would be instructive to other Entourage users. I'll send all future replies to the list. > If you haven't done it, make a backup copy of your most recent good > database. I would opt for the easiest thing first. That is, try to import > all your messages. Only if it doesn't rebuild ok, then I would go back to > the backup copy and try one folder (or one message) at a time. But, I > suspect if you export it to mbox, it shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps someone > with more knowledge about the database and mbox formats may be able to offer > more information about this. I'm no expert. Based on all the kind advice I've received from you and Diane, I set myself up to emerge from my corrupted database woes. I opened Entourage using the corrupted database, then made mbox files (folder by folder) of the messages I wanted to save that had been sent or received since 12/9 (the date to which an advanced rebuild had truncated my database). Then, I opened the rebuilt database I've been using since I discovered my problem on 12/26 because Entourage refused to open. This database was created by doing an advanced rebuild on the one that failed basic rebuild. I've been using it since the advanced rebuild, but leaving a copy of every message I receive on my ISP's server, "just in case" :-) Just to make sure I was OK, I decided to do a rebuild on my NEW database before importing the mbox files. Guess what? IT FAILS the rebuild! The pattern is the same as previously. Compaction stops before the progress bar reaches the high message counter, and optimization gets almost to the end of its counter before telling me the database cannot be rebuilt. What I plan to do now is make backup copies of my NEW flawed database, rebuild it (advanced rebuild), and, if it survives that, try rebuilding it AGAIN before I do anything else with it. Does anyone think the problem could lie outside Entourage; e.g., OS X directory problems, etc.? Any suggestions what I should try if I rebuild the current database and find that it's not OK immediately after being rebuilt? Jud Spencer, if you're reading this, would you have any interest in looking at my database? Thanks so much for the continuing support. -- 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/>
