Entourage hangs

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Henry Beardsley

Hello,

Ent-04 11.1.0 (040913)
Mac 10.3.7
800 mhz tiPB, 512 MB

This problem started a few days ago. Prior to that, no problems or issues
worth noting. This seems to have come out of the blue. I can recall no
inciting event.

I have a three pane email window. When the problem first reared, it seemed
as though clicking on ANY email message in pane two caused Ent to freeze,
requiring a force-quit (FQ).

I could relaunch Ent, but again, clicking ANY message would cause a hang/FQ.

I assumed a corrupted DB so rebuilt.

At this point things got a little weird. I won't swear that before this
point clicking on ANY email caused a hang, but I think that was the case. At
this point, I could click on some w/o a hang, but many others would cause a
hang.

However, if I did a multi-item select, I could then Delete messages, sort
of. The delete operation would complete then hang, such that after FQ and
relaunch, the messages were in the Deleted Items folder, which could be
emptied.

So, I went through A LOT of old messages to see which ones would hang Ent,
and which wouldn't. For those that did, I'd try different methods of
multi-select/delete.

Every so often I'd rebuild the DB.

I got to the point where none of my old messages would cause a hang.
Rebuilt, again, and thought I was done.

For a short while no new incoming messages triggered the hang, but now, some
are.

For my personal email account, I changed the setting to keep messages on the
server, so I can view them on a web browser. (I don't have that option for
my work email account.)

I can't figure out what's up.

I've rebuilt permissions. I've run MicroMat Disk 10.

I've analyzed the processes in Activity Monitor. (When Ent hangs, it is very
CPU intensive, but not disk intensive.)

For a moment I thought it was emails with attachments that caused the
problem, but that's not it.

I'm open to any diagnostic ideas that anyone has.

Oh, please, this is killing me slowly.

Hb
 
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MacKenwood

I have the same problem. Started a few days ago, but it only hangs when
trying to view complex html. None of the graphics will download. Plain
text i jjust fine, but no html. MacMail works fine, but Entourage (office
2001) sucks. I've reinstalled it, rebuilt db, removed startups , etc. no
help. Any ideas other than comlete disk wipe and rebuild?
 
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jaygamel

I've had the same problem for about two weeks now. I'm beginning to
suspect some kind of virus has infected the Mac version. I've rebuilt
the db, fixed permissions, reinstalled Office X and all updates and
still have the same problem. No pics download, it hangs when trying to
read complex HTML, but not text messages. The office version is still
working fine, but it's beihind a firewall.
thunderbird and mac mail work fine.
What's happening MS?

OS 10.3.7
MS OfX
G4 quicksilver 867/640mb ram
 

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