Entourage database getting corrupted regularly?

What are the reasons why the Entourage database gets corrupted?
What are the fixes?
Tks,
Denis

Allen
Sat Nov 25 20:14:12 CST 2006

Already answered...

On Nov 25, 4:34 pm, DMA <dmarchand...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> What are the reasons why the Entourage database gets corrupted?
> What are the fixes?
> Tks,
> Denis

Keysaw
Sun Nov 26 14:28:46 CST 2006

There appears to be a problem in 11.2.3 and later that you get a
message that the database is corrupt when it really isn't. This most
often happens a few hours right AFTER a database rebuild was done. If
you quit Entourage normally and reboot, your don't get the message
again and Entourage works fine. This has happened to me at least half a
dozen times, but finally quit happening a month ago. (I try to ebuild
my database every week.)

Keith

DMA wrote:
> What are the reasons why the Entourage database gets corrupted?
> What are the fixes?
> Tks,
> Denis

Diane
Sun Nov 26 16:11:12 CST 2006

On 11/26/06 12:28 PM, in article
1164572926.712113.202040@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "Keysaw"
<kaesau@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> (I try to ebuild
> my database every week.)

It is a very bad idea to use the rebuild functionality when it is not
needed. If you need space on your disk or you want to get the file into
contiguous space on your disk, go ahead and use compact. Only use rebuild if
your file is damaged. (tip provided by one of the Entourage developers)

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
resources.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Keysaw
Mon Nov 27 09:18:12 CST 2006

Wow, that is counter-intuitive! Thanks for the warning.

Diane Ross wrote:
> On 11/26/06 12:28 PM, in article
> 1164572926.712113.202040@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "Keysaw"
> <kaesau@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > (I try to ebuild
> > my database every week.)
>
> It is a very bad idea to use the rebuild functionality when it is not
> needed. If you need space on your disk or you want to get the file into
> contiguous space on your disk, go ahead and use compact. Only use rebuild if
> your file is damaged. (tip provided by one of the Entourage developers)
>
> --
> Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
> Entourage Help Page
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
> resources.
> <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Diane
Mon Nov 27 16:14:30 CST 2006

It's not counter-intuitive when you consider what happens to your data in
the rebuild process. :-)

--
Diane
> From: Keysaw <kaesau@sbcglobal.net>
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: 27 Nov 2006 07:18:12 -0800
> Subject: Re: Entourage database getting corrupted regularly?
>
> Wow, that is counter-intuitive! Thanks for the warning.
>
> Diane Ross wrote:
>> On 11/26/06 12:28 PM, in article
>> 1164572926.712113.202040@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "Keysaw"
>> <kaesau@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> (I try to ebuild
>>> my database every week.)
>>
>> It is a very bad idea to use the rebuild functionality when it is not
>> needed. If you need space on your disk or you want to get the file into
>> contiguous space on your disk, go ahead and use compact. Only use rebuild if
>> your file is damaged. (tip provided by one of the Entourage developers)
>>
>> --
>> Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
>> Entourage Help Page
>> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
>> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage
>> resources.
>> <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
>

Linotype
Mon Nov 27 16:23:30 CST 2006


Diane Ross wrote:
> It's not counter-intuitive when you consider what happens to your data in
> the rebuild process. :-)
>

So it is possible to compact without rebuiding?
I'm using Entourage X and can't find that option.
Hope you can help.

Linotype

Barry
Tue Nov 28 02:44:41 CST 2006

On 27/11/06 22:23, in article
1164666210.599936.272530@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com, "Linotype"
<r.schlemmer@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Diane Ross wrote:
>> It's not counter-intuitive when you consider what happens to your data in
>> the rebuild process. :-)
>>
>
> So it is possible to compact without rebuiding?
> I'm using Entourage X and can't find that option.
> Hope you can help.
>
> Linotype
>

In vX the 'typical rebuild' is just a compact. Terminology was clarified in
v2004 from 'typical' & 'advanced' rebuild to 'compact' & 'rebuild'


--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>