Someone with a similar issue (involving erroneous messages about a damaged database) said that deleting the preference file for Office Notifications fixed it. The file to delete is located here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.OfficeNotifications.plist
(Note: "~" refers to your home folder, usually located in /Users/<Your User>/) You can disable the warnings if you wish. 1. Launch Entourage, holding down the ³Option² key. Or, launch the Database Utility separately; it is located in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/. 2. If you are prompted, allow the Database Utility to quit open Office applications. 3. Once the Database Utility is open, select your identity from the list at the top. 4. Click the ³Set Database Preferences² button, and click ³Continue.² 5. Uncheck the option to "Perform database integrity check in background," and click "Save." Entourage shouldn't be quitting unexpectedly on a regular basis; if it is, that could be a sign of a genuinely damaged database. I'm guessing you've done a database rebuild since you've been getting the errors, but if not, it probably would be a good idea to do so. On 1/28/07 4:07 PM, "Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently Entourage (11.3.3) has been quitting unexpectedly (always putting > up a dialog telling me that it's "Encountered a problem and needs to close." > it offers to send a report to Microsoft, which I agree to inconsistently. > Once I've done so, Entourage reopens automatically. > > Today I embarked on the journey to clean up my Entourage Address Book, > deleting perhaps 1/3 of my contacts because they were duplicates produced in > the process of synchronization. > > Now, Entourage doesn't quit, but it puts up a warning dialog periodically > saying my database is damaged. If I run the database utility, it tells me > that it's healthy, but I've done a compact and rebuild twice anyway. > Afterwards, the "Your database is damaged" message pops up again within 10 > minutes of launching Entourage (I HAVE turned on Sync Services within > Entourage, asking it to overwrite the "Truth" database for contacts, > calendar items, tasks, and notes). However, this message doesn't cause the > program to stop running. > > What should I do at this point? > > Jim Robertson -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/> -- 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/>
