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Geoffrey F. Green
Hi:
I've got a weird & strange Entourage (with all the updates) problem
that I need help with.
I was doing some audio recording with Wiretap and my computer (OS X
10.3.2; G4/867; 768 MB RAM) crashed, hard; when I came back from doing
something else, the screen wouldn't come back up, and the same
half-second audio snippet was repeating over and over again. So I
reset and reboot. No problem.
Well, when I launched Entourage, suddenly it only saw e-mail as of
1/10, which may have been the last time I did a backup. The last
modified date on my Database file was 1/10. Oops, I thought. So I
ran Diskwarrior. After it completed, when I went into the Microsoft
User Identity folder, the last modified date of the Database was still
1/10. I thought "oh well." So I launched Entourage, and lo and
behold, it had every e-mail, up to that afternoon. Yippee!
But as I kept deleting e-mails, doing other things to change the
databse, and quitting Entourage and relaunching it, the modified date
on the Database file didn't change. The last modified date stayed
1/10. Odd, I thought. So, I decided to quit Entourage and rebuild
the Database, because I thought I had all my e-mail, this weirdness
was concerning me, and I thought that might fix things. After I
rebuilt, I was again back to everything only from 1/10 -- and the last
modified date of the Database was being updated again.
What the dickens is going on? I assume that Entourage was working off
some other Database file somewhere on my disk, but I can't find it
anywhere. Any idea where I should look or what it might be called? I
did a search for "Database"; nothing was the up-to-date file. So I'm
sort of lost. The fact that this Database file wasn't erased over
restarts gives me hope that it's not lost for good.
I realize I was delinquent in my backups, but I'd really like this
last week of data back.
Thanks so much for any help you can give me.
- geoff green
I've got a weird & strange Entourage (with all the updates) problem
that I need help with.
I was doing some audio recording with Wiretap and my computer (OS X
10.3.2; G4/867; 768 MB RAM) crashed, hard; when I came back from doing
something else, the screen wouldn't come back up, and the same
half-second audio snippet was repeating over and over again. So I
reset and reboot. No problem.
Well, when I launched Entourage, suddenly it only saw e-mail as of
1/10, which may have been the last time I did a backup. The last
modified date on my Database file was 1/10. Oops, I thought. So I
ran Diskwarrior. After it completed, when I went into the Microsoft
User Identity folder, the last modified date of the Database was still
1/10. I thought "oh well." So I launched Entourage, and lo and
behold, it had every e-mail, up to that afternoon. Yippee!
But as I kept deleting e-mails, doing other things to change the
databse, and quitting Entourage and relaunching it, the modified date
on the Database file didn't change. The last modified date stayed
1/10. Odd, I thought. So, I decided to quit Entourage and rebuild
the Database, because I thought I had all my e-mail, this weirdness
was concerning me, and I thought that might fix things. After I
rebuilt, I was again back to everything only from 1/10 -- and the last
modified date of the Database was being updated again.
What the dickens is going on? I assume that Entourage was working off
some other Database file somewhere on my disk, but I can't find it
anywhere. Any idea where I should look or what it might be called? I
did a search for "Database"; nothing was the up-to-date file. So I'm
sort of lost. The fact that this Database file wasn't erased over
restarts gives me hope that it's not lost for good.
I realize I was delinquent in my backups, but I'd really like this
last week of data back.
Thanks so much for any help you can give me.
- geoff green