Entourage 2008 hangs over and over again. 2004 does not

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APR

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
Email Client: Exchange

I recently upgraded to Office 2008 and have been having so much trouble with new Entourage that I gave up and moved back to the 2004 version.

The problem is the same as described by several others here. The new version beach balls for minutes at a time whenever it synchs or receives an email. Very frustrating.

I have deleted extra versions of the MS DB Daemon and done other non-heroic suggestions provided to others. Nothing helped. I finally gave up and quit using the new version. The old version works just fine. Thank goodness.

I have a year's worth of mail in the Exchange server, but it does not phase Outlook or Entourage 2004. The Daemon comes back, so I probably need a a way to root out Entourage 2008 altogether.

Hence just wanted to confirm that there is a *bad* problem afoot. If anyone has suggestions for how to return to a pre-2008 world without self spawning demons, suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks from one who knows more about different kinds of δαίμων
 
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KristoKN

Exact same here, on 10.5.2 on a brand new macbook pro. I've found it never
will hang if you change it to not retrieve 'entire' message. This is a lame
work around because attachments will show as 'corrupted' when you try to open
them if you do not manually click "Get Entire Message" first.

I'm really hoping for a fix to this, I'm tired of Force Quitting Entourage.
 
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GLeech

Same symptoms here ever since upgrading several weeks ago; Entourage 2008 is
almost unusable owing to hangs. Are Microsoft going to do anything about it?
They cannot pretend to have a complete software package on the world's most
used suite and leave this hanging problem unsolved.
 
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