DESPERATE to rebuild database!

PLease help me!
Suddenly my entourage os X program crashed and told me to rebuild my
database.
I have spent an entire day trying to figure out how to do this. I have
ample room on my Hard disk to duplicate the file in the rebuilding
process but everytime I begin to rebuild by launching the program while
holding down the option key.... it thinks a long time and then shuts
down after about 5 minutes.

My "database" file located in the "microsoft user data" file under
"office X identities" is very very large!
It is 2.86 GB! I have no idea how it got so big. Maybe because I am a
graphic designer and use email sending large files. Is this size file
normal?
I am so so so nervous that I have lost all my contacts and mail.

Thank you to anyone that can help!

(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=)
Wed Aug 31 19:07:02 CDT 2005

bazos <erin@bazos.net> wrote:

> PLease help me!
> Suddenly my entourage os X program crashed and told me to rebuild my
> database.
> I have spent an entire day trying to figure out how to do this.


Press the alt key as you launch the app. You should then see a pane with
various options offering you to rebuild the database.


Corentin


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bazos
Wed Aug 31 21:06:42 CDT 2005

Corentin,
Thanks for your reply but I have done this numerous times and it starts
to work and then entourage quits again.

I am going to try the advanced rebuild after I back up the database in
case it gets further damaged.

Barry
Thu Sep 01 05:36:37 CDT 2005

On 1/9/05 03:06, in article
1125540402.530837.295580@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "bazos"
<erin@bazos.net> wrote:

> Corentin,
> Thanks for your reply but I have done this numerous times and it starts
> to work and then entourage quits again.
>
> I am going to try the advanced rebuild after I back up the database in
> case it gets further damaged.
>

Your existing database will not be touched - the first stage of the rebuild
process is to make a copy and work on the copy.

After the rebuild finishes, you will have a backup of the old database in
the identities folder that you can manually delete.

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Barry Wainwright
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