It is possibly an early sign of mild database corruption.
Office vX:
Hold down the option key when starting Entourage and take the first option
('typical rebuild'). If this doesn¹t resolve the problems, then try an
Advanced Rebuild¹.
Office 2004:
You still call the rebuilder by holding down Option key at launch, but it
now brings up a separate app "Database Utility" (which could be launched by
double-clicking of you wish) that lives in the Office subfolder.
First of all, if you have any Office apps open, a dialog comes up that
offers to quit them.
Then you get a window with a list of your identities to select from, and
four options:
1) It has a new feature "Verify database integrity" option: this should
reduce unnecessary rebuilding. Apparently it's quite sensitive. And see 4)
below.
2) "Compact the database". (Like X's "Typical rebuild").
3) Rebuild the database. (Like X's "Advanced Rebuild")
4) "Set database preferences". Actually there's only one pref: you can turn
on "Verify database in background "which means "run automatically" and let
you know if your database needs rebuilding.
--
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: Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:00:21 -0700
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
> Conversation: Entourage corrupting attachments
> Subject: Entourage corrupting attachments
>
> I have a strange problem here, no idea how to fix it. For about the past
> month, people have been telling me they are not able to open attachments
> from me. These can be simple jpgs, to zip files, whatever, its pretty
> random. Being random, I suspected it was just them, and they were doing
> something wrong.
>
> Seems not to be the case, I just tried to send a crash log to a developer,
> and he was not able to read it. I then zipped it, still no go. I am
> assuming he knows what he is doing :-)
>
> I had an outgoing rule to delete attachments that I thought may be causing
> this issue, so I disabled it. That was not the problem.
>
> I started sending tests to myself and my gmail account, its hit or miss,
> sometimes it works, others it does not. In the cases where it does not,
> gmail ends up with a 0 byte attachment, in the case of sending it to myself
> in E-rage (2004 current as of today BTW) I end up with a corrupt jpg. I can
> compare the base64 encoded bits, and there is one line that has been
> changed, at least, in comparing the mail in my sent items to the one that
> comes right back in.
>
> Here is the strange part, if I make a new identity, same email user account,
> the trouble seems to go away, so there is something corrupt with my
> identity.
>
> I then went back to my original identity, deleted the account and recreated
> it, but the problem still persists.
>
> I have a lot of filing rules, unless someone has any ideas on what to do to
> fix this, I am fearful I will have to create a new identity and somehow
> start over. If that is the case, whats the most painless way to do it?
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602
> <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A.
>
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