This has been a nightmare. My husband upgraded to 10.4.5 which caused
problems with Retrospect and he lost all of his backups on his external
hard drive. In addition to using Retrospect, he always manually backed
up his MS User Data to the external drive. Since he didn't have
Retrospect, he manually backed up his current MS User Data to replace
the data already on the backup. Unknown to him, his current database
was corrupt and wiped out his backup. Now he has no backup and he kept
getting an error when he tried to backup again (Error -36). Entourage
was still working, so he tried moving all of his mboxes to the desktop.
Some moved with no problem but a couple of folders wouldn't move at all
(probably the corrupt ones). He then tried rebuilding Entourage and now
it just crashes and won't open at all.
He does have Entourage on his Powerbook (unfortunately, it was last
backed up in August, 2005). He would like to take the mboxes that did
successfully move to his desktop and import them into Entourage on his
Powerbook. We plan on backing up what's on his Powerbook before we do
anything.
What is the best way to import the mboxes into Entourage? Should he
worry about the mboxes that did successfully move being corrupt? He
also has both contact files and contact group files to import. I think
the individual contacts should be easy (they are vcf), but the groups
are weird. He can open the group files on his desktop to see what's in
them, but there doesn't seem any way to import or export them. It won't
even let him copy and paste. Also because the group files are for a
mailing list, he doesn't necessarily have everyone in his individual
file. It would take a long time to input the info manually. Any ideas
on how to handle this?
Thanks so much!