On 4/20/02 3:57 PM, "Harry Zink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just did a complex rebuild, simply because I haven't done any sort of > optimize or rebuild in a long time. > > Well, it finished, and now *ALL* items from my inbox have disappeard. Gone. > Zilch. 1) Did you check to be sure that "View Unread Only" isn't selected in Views? 2) Unless you already deleted it, your entire old database is still on your HD in the MUD folder. Use that to restore your data. > Needless to say, my first impulse was that I was 'not very happy' (in other > words, I was ready to scream at someone - fortunately, after claming myself > for 10 minutes, I'm able to compose this). > > I'm noticing the following 'new' issues after this complex rebuild: > > - Entourage now takes roughly a minute to launch - up from roughly 10 > seconds previously. Try logging out. After I have been running OSX for a while (say several days) I find restarting some apps take longer. This may have nothing to do with the rebuild. > - I lost my entire InBox (luckily I transferred most to an archive recently, > but that still means that I lost roughly 1,500 messages, some of them pretty > damn important.) Get your old DB, as described above. > I will withhold full-on flaming regarding the cause of this, but I would > like to seriously get to the bottom of this, and know: > > - is this some kind of feature? > - are the lost messages recoverable? > - will this be greeted by silence? > - is this an Office v.X innovation, or can this happen > under Entourage 2001 as well? > - what other *reliable* mail client is there out there? This is the most reliable email client out there, but I won't be baited. The rest of your questions are just silly. Obviously this is not intended behavior. Let's see what happens. It may be an easy solution... Cb cbrady @ tulane.edu -- "No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be violated." C. S. Lewis -- 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/>
