Relax. Your messages have not been lost. When you do any rebuild the original database file is renamed something like "old database" and is in your identity folder. (Users/<your user name>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity)
All you need to do to retrieve the original data is to delete the new database and rename the "old database" to "database" (and the other associated files). I'm not sure why you did a complex rebuild at all if you were not experiencing any problems. This is supposed to be a last resort fix if you are having problems. You should never do it if there are no problems with your files. --Greg 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. > > 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. > > - 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.) > > 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? > > Harry > -- 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/>
