Even though my brother-in-law took the computer to the Apple Store Genius (they live a couple of miles away) and they couldn't find it, I was able to find it last night. Diane, you may want to add this tip to your troubleshooting suggestions.
I was prepared to re-import the four-month-old Outlook Express database from their old iMac just so they had their old address book and old emails. But while I was in the middle of the file transfer, something my sister said made me do a final search for the Database file, this time including invisible files. Right there, at the root level of the hard drive, in a hidden folder called "lost+found" was the complete Main Identity folder. I'm still curious about how the files ended up in there. Was it OS X or Entourage? Why put a recovered file in an invisible folder? That seems to defeat the purpose. I'm just glad to have found it and my sister (and her customers) are ecstatic. And I'm left thanking St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost objects and people. On 4/26/04 5:21 PM, "Diane Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/04 8:16 AM, "Domenico Bettinelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What would cause the Entourage database to simply disappear? > > It's usually user error, but this time I would say kid error this time. > Below are some tips on finding the Microsoft User Data folder, but it's very > possible that the folder was deleted or renamed. > > I recently had a visit from my two year old granddaughter. I found my tax > file in the trash renamed nnnn......ssssrrrrrttttoiooooooo. :-) > -- Domenico Bettinelli, Jr.<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://www.bettnet.com/> The Bettnet blog <http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php> Catholic World News <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.cwnews.com/> Managing Editor, Catholic World Report magazine -- 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/>
