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.
I guess I could run a Verify/Repair Disk on the Powerbook if it happens
too often. Thank you very much again for the help and great tips.
Dianne
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
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
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