>>From: "Diane Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you for your answer!
> Did you quit the daemon before rebuilding? Not quitting the Microsoft > Database Daemon is the most common reason for failure. Full details on the > daemon can be found here: I am almost sure that the daemon was not running when I tried to rebuild. I am aware of the problems with it and therefore I have it always turned off. Just to be sure, I tried the rebuilds again and I am still having the same problem. > Tip: before ever starting a rebuild make a backup copy of your identity. > Even though Entourage X does this in the rebuild process, it's always good > to have a copy. Thank you for the tip. I have made a backup copy of the database file only. There seem to be no problems with the other files. However, I will back them up too in the future. > The only thing I can think that would give you the error of not having > enough room is that your hard drive is fragmented and that Entourage X is > looking for contiguous space. Good idea. I did not think about that possibility because I had 15.7 GB free. I tried the following: I moved my Identity folder to my second harddisk which has 60 GB free with 38 GB beeing the biggest contiguous space, put an alias to the folder in the identities folder and tried the rebuilds. I am afraid I am still having exactly the same error message and problem. Finally, I also tried to do the rebuild on my older G4 with 92 GB free with exactly the same problems. > I can see if MS wants to look at your database if you would be interested in > sending it. Let me know. Well, I am desperate enough to give that a try. However, my internet connection will not allow me to send a file of this size. (And I doubt that stuffing will help much because most of the attachments, which should take up most of the space, are already compressed.) If you can get me a contact at Microsoft I could discuss with her/him how to get the file to them. Perhaps I could bring it to the local Microsoft office in Vienna (Austria, E urope) and they send it. > It wasn't entirely clear if you could open your database or if you were > always stuck at the error messages. If you can open, use Paul Berkowitz's > scripts, Export-Import Good idea again. I have bought these scripts but did not think of trying them because I do not get an Entourage window with my identity. However, I checked again and somewhere at the end of the process Entourage keeps running without window. I tried to run the scripts but failed. Some of them require to have something selected and some others quit Entourage unexpectedly. > We'll do our best to help you get going again. Don't forget to create a task > when you do, that reminds you to backup your data on a regular basis. Thank you again for your answer! I would really be very thankful if you helped me to get my mails back! (Regarding backup: Well, the really sad thing is the following: I backed up all my data about three days before the disaster on a Windows 2000 Server with the AppleShare Service. However, it told me it could not copy my mail file because it was larger than 2 GB. I thought, I would look into that later. :-( Nevertheless it's a lame excuse because I simply could have copied it to my second hard disk. I wish I had! I will definitely *not* make this error again.) Still it also remains an Entourage problem, which should be fixed to spare others from the same painful experience. If the database has a 4 GB limit it should be able to rebuild one with 2.28 GB. I still do not understand why it grows the database to 4 GB during rebuilding and why it stays for so long at the same place. Thank you for your support! Kind regards Bernhard Pieber -- 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/>
