On 21/4/02 07:31, "Greg Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? Obviously! You just bought a new piece of programmed junk at high cost. >> - are the lost messages recoverable? Probably not!!! The messages are yours and are of no interest to either Microsoft or Apple. >> - will this be greeted by silence? Deafening silence. Neither Microsoft nor Apple accept the old-fashioned concept of service. There is NO money in it and the bottom line is ALL that counts otherwise how would Microsoft be worth $US50bn+. >> - is this an Office v.X innovation, or can this happen >> under Entourage 2001 as well? It is an Office X improvement made so that you upgrade at huge cost to you as soon as the next version is out. >> - what other *reliable* mail client is there out there? Probably they are all junk. At least that has been my extensive experience. I would not touch MacOS X or any of its applications until there is vast improvement in user friendliness and particularly reliability which by all accounts is absolutely abysmal. >> Harry >> -- Regards D�nes 133 Osburn Drive MACGREGOR ACT 2615 Australia Ph: +612 6254 3636 Fax: +612 6278 6060 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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