Beyond Advanced Rebuild my Entourage database?

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kathleen LaGue

When I go to open entourage, I get an error message
"Entourage cannot access your data. To attemp to fix the problem,
rebuild your database".
After failed attemps at rebuild and Advanced Rebuild, the final
message is:
"It is likely that your data base cannot be repaired."

All my email messages for the past 4 months, my new address book and
groups, along with my schedule are IN ENTOURAGE, but I can't open it
at all.

All the other Microsoft Office programs work, Excel, etc. but not
entourage.
Any advice?? I have tried to re install Microsoft Office X 10.3, but
I get the same error messages after reinstalling.
 
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Dave Cortright

"It is likely that your data base cannot be repaired."
....
Any advice??
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Your best bet at this point is to restore from your backup database.
Hopefully it wasn't made too long ago so you didn't lose much.
 
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kathleen LaGue

Hopefully it wasn't made too long ago so you didn't lose much.

I guess I'm not sure how to do that. If I didn't create a backup
database when I got this computer.....does that mean that there isn't
one?
I had only been using this for four months and have not created a
backup...is there a way to check for it?
thanks,
kat
 
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Dave Cortright

I guess I'm not sure how to do that. If I didn't create a backup
database when I got this computer.....does that mean that there isn't
one?
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Yes. See section 5.2 of the Read Me file.

Another possibility is to get Entourage 2004 when it comes out in another
month; it might be able to import data from your damaged database (though of
course this is by no means a sure thing since your database sounds like it's
pretty messed up).
 
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