Error Rebuilding Entourage Database

[hexchrome]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

My entourage suddenly crashed, it says that i have problems with the database and i need to rebuild.. fine .. but when i start rebuilding it, it give me message saying "database rebuilding error" at the very beginning

What i can do ?

my database is 12 GB and i have 28 GB free space..

it also cant even verify the database..

 

[Diane Ross]

What i can do ?

my database is 12 GB and i have 28 GB free space..

it also cant even verify the database..

Not only do you not have enough free space to rebuild Entourage, you don't
have the minimum required to run virtual memory. Most likely your database
is OK, it's just giving this error because of low disk space.

You need a minimum of 10-20% free space.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance2.html>

Either get a bigger drive (you can boot from an external) or free up some
space.

 

[Kerry]

Not only do you not have enough free space to rebuild Entourage, you don't
have the minimum required to run virtual memory. Most likely your database
is OK, it's just giving this error because of low disk space.

You need a minimum of 10-20% free space.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/performance2.html>

Either get a bigger drive (you can boot from an external) or free up some
space.

I'm always astounded when I see people with DBs this size. So much to
loose if something seriously goes wrong.

To free up disk space, for my system, I'd just copy my VMWare and
Parallels virtual machines to an external drive (done anyway) and
delete them on my main drive which would give me back about 35 gigs.
Another place I could do same to free up a fair bit of space is with
my photos, music and videos.

When and if you are able to successfully rebuild that DB you should
probably archive big time and then in the DB utility (hold option key
down while you launch Entourage) compress your DB. Not only will this
reduce your DB, decrease the amount that can potentially be lost but a
backup won't take all day. The archive DB will only backup upon change
and in my case its rarely changed as its rarely accessed. 12 gigs is a
really dangerous size and even if you're doing an overnight (say 3am
backup) it will still take a long time and your backup drive if your
doing incremental backups would have to huge.