The 'why' can come from a lot of reasons - perhaps entourage or the system crashed before the in/out file buffers were written to disk. Perhaps the power went out and caused data loss in on the disk, maybe you have a bad or sub-par sector in the middle of the database.
Yoou should be aware that the database has become nore and more stable with each release of software, and although I was, at one time, a staunch critic of the monolithic database concept, I have to admit that I have known very few occisions on which a database was so completely damaged that the data could not be recovered - and never have I experienced that myself. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: Dianne Yumul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:48:34 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: More than one identity > > Thanks for the response. I went ahead and deleted those. But I can't > seem to find an explanation anywhere why the database gets corrupted. > Are there any precautions we should take to avoid it from happening? > > Thank you again for the great help. > > Dianne > > P.S. > > At first, I was not subscribed and I just sent the email to the above > address. Then I got a reply back about subscribing, so I did then I > resent my email but forgot to remove the part about me not subscribed : > ) > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Barry Wainwright wrote: > >> Your assumption is correct, and you can removed those saved databases >> - they >> are created as a security measure to ensure that your data remains >> intact in >> the remote possibility that the rebuild caused more damage than it >> fixed. >> >> If you are not subscribed to this list, then how did you post to it? >> >> -- >> Barry Wainwright >> Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) >> Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> >> >> >>> From: Dianne Yumul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >>> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:53:20 -0700 >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Subject: More than one identity >>> >>> I'm sorry if this is a duplicate, but I waited for a day and my post >>> still did not show up. Trying again : ) >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We have Entourage 2004 for Mac in the office. The main user of the Mac >>> had to run Database Utility twice due to database corruption. As a >>> result, we have three identity folders (under ~/Documents/Microsoft >>> User Data/ Office 2004 Identities/): >>> >>> Main Identity >>> Main Identity [Backed up 8-2-2005 ...] >>> Main Identity [Backed up 6-23-2005 ...] >>> >>> I assume that 'Main Identity' folder is the valid one and the others >>> where backed up by Database Utility when it performed the rebuild (?) >>> Is it safe to remove these backed up folders since they contain >>> corrupted databases? >>> >>> Please CC replies to me because I am not currently subscribed to this >>> mailing list. Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Dianne Yumul >>> >>> -- >>> 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/> >> >> > > -- > 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/>
