Hi- I would recommend abandoning the database. Drag your mail folders from Entourage to the desktop, it will convert it to mbox format. Delete the existing profile all together and just build a new one. Then drag the email back in or import it through the menu.
Also, you can burn the mboxs to a DVD or CD as a backup and they can be opened by almost every mail application. Much more useful than just backing up the Entourage database in my experience. Sometime the database just goes bad. -------------------------- Kurt D. Schultz Lockheed Martin Enterprise Solutions and Services Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA > From: "Carol F. Bruml" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:06:37 -0400 > To: <[email protected]> > Conversation: Odd Entourage Behavior ("damaged database" message) > Subject: Odd Entourage Behavior ("damaged database" message) > > I have just joined your list, so please forgive me if you have already > resolved this issue for someone else: > > I am running Microsoft Entourage 11.3.3 on a G4/1.2 GHz desktop Mac with > 1.25 GB of RAM, running OS 10.4.10. However, the problem started in 10.4.9, > and has just carried over since the update... > > I tend to store way too many messages in my e-mail folders. Last week, I did > some major housecleaning, moving things to sub-folders and deleting about > 2,000 messages and many more attachments, from Entourage. I then verified > and compacted/backed up the database. > > Ever since then, I am getting (several times a day) messages that say, "your > database is damaged. Do you want to quit all Office programs, so the > database utility can be run?" If I click "yes," indeed all Office programs > quit, and the database utility opens. > > I have (in order of occurrence, and despite all this, continuing to get the > "damaged" message regularly): > 1.Verified, compacted and backed up the database. > 2.Rebuilt the database twice. > 3.Repaired permissions with Disk Utility. > 4.Run Disk Warrior. > 5.Exported copies of my Entourage address book to tab-delimited file and > entire identity folder to a .rge file, just in case. > 6.Repaired permissions with Disk Utility. > 7.Run the recent Security Update and 10.4.10 system updater (without > problems). > 8.Verified the database (which says it's running correctly). > 9.Compacted the database. > 10.Repaired permissions with Disk Utility again (there was nothing to > repair). > 11.Verified the database (which says it's running correctly). > ...and I'm still getting the "database is damaged" message. > > What else can I do, to get rid of this message? I want to do more > housecleaning, and get rid of more superfluous/old messages, but I am > concerned about disturbing things, since E-rage seems to be working fine, at > the moment, despite the dire messages. > > Carol > > > -- > 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/>
