I am running Entourage 2004, Mac OS 10.4.11 and iCal 2.0.5 on a MacBook Pro.
Entourage wiped out ALL my contacts and calendars. Last night Entourage suddenly quit, and MS put up a message that its database was corrupt. It offered one measure: "Rebuild". I had had no problems with Entourage even one hour before. I did the rebuild. Upon restarting Entourage after the rebuild, the Prefs for: Sync Services -> Synchronize Contacts with Address Book Sync Services -> Synchronize events and tasks with iCal ...were both turned off. I turned them back on, as they were before the rebuild. Guess what. All my events in iCal disappeared, poof, before my eyes. All my contacts in Address Book disappeared, poof, before my eyes. Screwy Microsoft crummy application implementation. Shame on them! It did not even give me the usual Apple SyncServices notification "More than 5% of your data will be changed. Do you want to proceed?" I would have said "NO!" Fortunately I had the same data on my iMac, so I was able to export the contacts and calendars from the iMac, and then import them to the MacBook Pro. Now Entourage had a few duplicate entries in the Address Book. From where? They were all wiped out. And my several Groups were still there. >From where? And all the photos associated with entries in Address Book were gone. I use SyncTogether to synchronize my Address Book contacts and iCal calendars, between the MacBook Pro and the iMac. But now I'm afraid to do that, since Entourage could easily wipe out the data on two machines. I am also afraid to Sync the Mac with iPhone, because who knows what the Microsoft component of this action will do. Bad Microsoft! Bad, bad, bad! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [email protected] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
