It sounds like when you copied your database from one computer to the other, you didn't copy all of the necessary files. When you want to move your mail from one machine to another, you need to copy the entire indentity folder (not just the database file). So if your identity in Entourage was named "Jim" you would need to copy
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Jim/ ...to the other computer. Did you do this? -Steve On 11/2/02 9:40 AM, "Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the past week I've struggled with Entourage while retrieving mail. > Almost every "send and receive all" makes the application hang with the > progress window open and the beach ball spinning after just one or two > messages are retrieved from my POP server (aDSL, static IP). If I wait long > enough (a few minutes) Entourage will retrieve a few more of the messages in > the queue, but then the beach ball spins again for a few minutes. This > stuttering continues until all messages are retrieved. > > I have a simplistic guess about why this is happening but don't know what to > do to correct it. I spent the week BEFORE last away from home with my > Entourage database on my PowerBook, and once while retrieving mail in my > hotel I had to quit from Entourage using <<Command-Option-Escape>> while it > was retrieving mail. My uneducated guess is that there might now be a > pointer to a corrupted message entry somewhere in the database, and that > this path points to something on the PowerBook's hard drive. Once I returned > home and copied the database back to my usual desktop Mac, each message > retrieval session from the desktop computer prompts the program to look at > the PowerBook's hard drive. > > What makes me think THIS is that if the PowerBook and desktop computer are > networked when I retrieve mail, instead of hanging the desktop computer asks > to connect to the Powerbook when I retrieve mail. Curiously, if I dismiss > this dialog it pops up immediately 3 or 4 times, and if I cancel each of > these requests, then the desktop computer retrieves a few more messages > before asking to connect to the PowerBook again. > > Is there a rogue entry in my database that I need to delete, and if so, how > do I find it? If that's the case, any idea why the program on the desktop > asks to connect to the PowerBook four times before doing what I want it to? > (almost like a petulant child!) > > I posted this query a few days ago, but at the time thought it was part of > another problem -- a phantom DHCP server on my network. No one had any clues > about that, but now I think the two problems are NOT related, and I'm hoping > someone can help with the Entourage issue. > > Thanks so much. > > Jim Robertson > __o > _-\<,_ > (*)/ (*) > ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > My other car is a Trek -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
