Thanks very much, Allen! We have done the rebuild and as you say, the categories have survived. Not only that the database is moving much more quickly and the troublesome contacts are troublesome no longer.
One slight problem is that now, as expected, all the links to each contact show the modified date of today, when the link was modified. Is there a way to also see the creation date for each link? I know we can open each link and find the date on the original message, but can we see the creation date in the links window? Thanks! Walt > From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:42:28 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Inconsistent problems > > On or near 6/27/04 12:44 PM, Walt Hopkins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > >> No, Allen, I have not tried rebuilding the database yet. Since we have spent >> months creating dozens of categories for all the messages, I was afraid we >> might lose the categories in a rebuild. Is that a problem? Or should I just >> go ahead and do a rebuild? > > You definitely do not lose categories when rebuilding. > > In any case, the rebuild renames the existing database, or really your > identity (in E2004, anyway), with an OLD or date suffix, and then copies the > data, rebuilding as it goes, into a new database. > > If the new database is somehow worse than the old (you can lose some links > between objects, for instance, which might be crucial to you), you can > always revert to the old copy by quitting Entourage, renaming the files, > and relaunching. (Oh, be sure you quit the database daemon also; easiest way > is to type this into Script Editor and run it: > > tell application "Microsoft database daemon" to quit > > Or, you can find the "Database Daemon" process in Activity Viewer, and use > that to quit it. > > > -- > 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/> > -- 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/>
