I ran into a major problem this morning running Entourage 2008 SP1. I noticed that many of my contacts had disappeared and searching for contacts did not work at all. Quit, restart, etc.. Database verification reported a problem so I rebuilt. And that made it worse. Entourage started reporting the database could not be opened. Then even worse, Entourage would not run at all (if I had an empty 2008 Identities folder, it would not create a new one just reporting that it had an error with the "do you want to send a report"). At this point, I'm think there's a problem with a program file. Earlier in the week, I had compacted the database but since things had seen fine, I had already deleted the backup. But I had a pre-compact backup so figured I'd reinstall and use the backup from before the compact.
So reinstalled including reinstalling SP1. Got the pre-compact backup. Same problem (database cannot be opened) including on all backups. Tried on my son's computer. Same problem. Installed on another computer that did not have Entourage at all on it. Same problem. In short, any database version I had would not open on any computer. New databases worked fine. So, went to work where I keep off-site backups. The latest was from two weeks ago and just before I installed SP1 (thank goodness). Restored it and incredibly, Entourage upgraded it and then again reported the database could not be opened! But, Database Daemon seemed to be having no problem reading past due calendar events and displaying alerts. So, reinstalled without SP1 and with the two-week old database, I'm finally up and running again. But I have a lot contacts updated in the last two weeks I now need to recheck. Ouch. This really has me baffled. Things were working fine, then all of a sudden, old databases that were fine no longer are on any of three different computers (one Intel and two G4s). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.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/>
