Entourage Database

[Nishka]

I run Entourage 2004 on MAC OS 10.4.10. My hard drive crashed. I
used Data Rescue II to retrieve data from the hard drive. I was able
to locate my Office 2004 main identity with over 500 MB of data. I
was able to rebuild this data on my new hard drive with Data Rescue
II. Then, with Office 2004 and its on-line updates installed, I tried
to access the data by moving the data file into and replacing the data
file in the main identity folder. The program asked me to rebuild the
data using the Entourage disk utility. Unfortunately, this move
seemed to replace the data file with a blank file of 18 MB and no
data.

I know....first of all I should have backed up the data. I didn't.
Is there a way to import this data, rebuild it, something???

It seems the data is there because it shows up as over 500 MB of
information. I need help to get it to come up under the Entourage
program.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[Diane]

I run Entourage 2004 on MAC OS 10.4.10. My hard drive crashed. I
used Data Rescue II to retrieve data from the hard drive. I was able
to locate my Office 2004 main identity with over 500 MB of data. I
was able to rebuild this data on my new hard drive with Data Rescue
II. Then, with Office 2004 and its on-line updates installed, I tried
to access the data by moving the data file into and replacing the data
file in the main identity folder. The program asked me to rebuild the
data using the Entourage disk utility. Unfortunately, this move
seemed to replace the data file with a blank file of 18 MB and no
data.

I know....first of all I should have backed up the data. I didn't.
Is there a way to import this data, rebuild it, something???

It seems the data is there because it shows up as over 500 MB of
information. I need help to get it to come up under the Entourage
program.

It's hard to know what shape the database is in after data rescue did it's
thing. Normally, you would just replace the database file and Entourage
would open it. The fact that Entourage sees it as damaged is a bad sign that
the format of the data is unreadable by Entourage.

Leopard's Time Machine will help with backups and I suggest a good backup
routine be started now.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/backup.html>