It is possibly an early sign of mild database corruption.
Hold down the option key when starting Entourage and take the first option
('typical rebuild'). If this doesn�t resolve the problems, then try an
�Advanced Rebuild�.
--
Barry Wainwright
<http://www.barryw.net>
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have
a tremendous impact on history." -- George W. Bush, Jr.
>
> From: Jeffrey McPheeters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:26:55 -0500
> To: Entourage Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Entourage X just wiped out 12 days of messages?!?!
>
> Okay, not sure if I�ve ever experienced or seen this reported before:
>
> Last night, I shut down the apps on my PowerBook Pizmo running OS X 10.1.3,
> and when I went into the house and started it up, then launched EntourageX, I
> noticed that the InBox looked as if I had just stepped back in time to
> 4/3/2002. I looked through everything and it was the same in every single
> folder. I process a couple hundred message each day, and this day had been no
> different; I had sent out several key e-mails and had received many messages
> that are important. Unfortunately, my last archival backup was from the end of
> March, so I cannot resurrect the messages unless there�s a way to get them out
> of the database.
>
> In the meantime, I booted into OS 9 (haven�t done that in ages) and ran Disk
> First Aid, then Disk Warrior, which found a lot of problems it seems, and then
> Norton, and rebuild the desktops. Rebooted into OS X. Then tried Entourage. It
> still was missing the 12 days. It also abruptly quit. So I went back to OS 9
> again and ran Disk First Aid, which found a couple of problems with the
> directory, so I ran DW again and it found only a couple of minor discrepancies
> which it fixed.
>
> Rebooted to OS X and then launched Entourage with Option key down and ran
> normal rebuild. 12 days still missing. So I relaunched with option key and ran
> advanced rebuild. Still missing the 12 days. So I guess that�s that, unless
> someone thinks there�s a way to get into the original databases. I�ve kept the
> original one and will put it on a CD tonight. It�s almost 380MB.
>
> Anyone heard of this happening before and what they did about it? I have
> Retrospect doing daily backups, however, as luck would have it, yesterday was
> the day I chose (being tax day, I thought I�d celebrate) to try and rearrange
> the way I was using Retrospect, so I had erased the most recent stuff because
> I had an archive handy, but I should have moved the critical stuff to another
> partition, which I usually do, as a safety mechanism. But in my haste, I
> fumbled and now I�m wondering if the two weeks are just lost or if there�s
> some way to get at those messages.
>
> Sorry for the long post. Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Jeffrey
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