Bellwether wrote: > I've just had an error message when trying to start up Entourage (2004, > 11.3.3 according to About Entourage), which required me to rebuild the > database -- which I did (about 10 hours to do).
Get the 11.5 combo and update. :-) > > When the rebuild was finished, thousands of messages in various folders were > marked as unread and a few dozen showed up in my Outbox, waiting to be > resent. Weird? or normal? (I immediately went offline and then moved them > back to the Sent Items folder... but they are still bold/unread. No amount > of clicking on them will unbold them, so now my Sent Items has a "116" in > bold behind it. Weird? or normal?) This tells me your database is in bad shape and the rebuild was not successful. When Entourage did the rebuild, it made a copy. Be sure you backup the copy because you might need to revert to this copy to recover. Having a safety backup might save you during the recovery process. My suggestion is to open Entourage in the original Identity that was giving you problems. Manually move out your data then create a new Identity and import your files. Using Entourage archive (.rge) is the quickest, but there are scripts that will export as MBOX files and get the subfolders that I would also do since it's such a simple procedure and having extra backup never hurts. How to manually move your data. (when import fails and/or you need to move to a new Identity same version or revert to an older version) <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/manual_install.html> > > As I scrolled through the messages, I could see that some messages had been > duplicated and marked unread. So... I'd like to run a remove dupes script, > which brings me to you: Which one do you prefer? Allen's, Barry's, Jolly's, > or Paul's? On Jolly's, what does "current selection" mean ("This script > removes duplicate messages from the current selection in Entourage")? > Currently selected mailbox? Currently selected messages? Something else? > Jolly's script takes a huge amount of time. I would use one of the others, BUT my advice to create a new Identity will result in better long time stability. -- Diane -- 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/>
