I think my MS Entourage was hacked. Help please.

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neltz

Hey all-

Woke up this morning to find Entourage asking me to set it up. Brand
new. No previous e-mails, etc. Did some snooping around and found a
file called "Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" under my "Office X
Identities" folder. My "Messages" and "Database" files gone.

I do back up every evening, but by backup of course backed up the
"Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" file. Seems to me I lost all of my
e-mails, right?

Anyone have information on this?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Chris
 
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Franky De Smet-Van Damme

Hey all-

Woke up this morning to find Entourage asking me to set it up. Brand
new. No previous e-mails, etc. Did some snooping around and found a
file called "Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" under my "Office X
Identities" folder. My "Messages" and "Database" files gone.

I do back up every evening, but by backup of course backed up the
"Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" file. Seems to me I lost all of my
e-mails, right?

Anyone have information on this?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Chris
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Wel Chris,

Since a couple of days I have something strange also.

My addressbook is full with many emailaddresses etc but when I start a new
message the don't pop up anymore.

Nobody answers my question so I'm also a little bit searching in the dark
for some help.

Please any tip would be welcome because It's not really easy to get back to
addressbook for every mailaddress I need.

DSVD franky
 
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Barry Wainwright

Hey all-

Woke up this morning to find Entourage asking me to set it up. Brand
new. No previous e-mails, etc. Did some snooping around and found a
file called "Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" under my "Office X
Identities" folder. My "Messages" and "Database" files gone.

I do back up every evening, but by backup of course backed up the
"Database.__XXCOPIERXX__.718.0" file. Seems to me I lost all of my
e-mails, right?

Anyone have information on this?

Thanks in advance for your time.
Chris
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The file should be called just 'database' (no quotes.

Try renaming the file to this, log out and back in again.
 
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Barry Wainwright

Wel Chris,

Since a couple of days I have something strange also.

My addressbook is full with many emailaddresses etc but when I start a new
message the don't pop up anymore.

Nobody answers my question so I'm also a little bit searching in the dark
for some help.

Please any tip would be welcome because It's not really easy to get back to
addressbook for every mailaddress I need.

DSVD franky
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Please do not confuse threads by starting a new topic in another thread. See
the thread "Lost MRU List" for suggestions on your problem.
 
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Barry Wainwright

Wel Chris,

Since a couple of days I have something strange also.

My addressbook is full with many emailaddresses etc but when I start a new
message the don't pop up anymore.

Nobody answers my question so I'm also a little bit searching in the dark
for some help.

Please any tip would be welcome because It's not really easy to get back to
addressbook for every mailaddress I need.

DSVD franky
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Look in the preferences to see if the MRU is 'turned on' (it appears under
the 'compose' tab of mail & news preferences)

If that doesn't help, try a simple rebuild.

If it still doesn't work it may be that the contacts need refreshing for
some reason. Run this script from script editor:

Tell app "microsoft entourage"
Set theContacts to every contact
Repeat with aContact in theContacts
Open acontact
Close window 1
End repeat
End tell
 
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Franky De Smet-Van Damme

Look in the preferences to see if the MRU is 'turned on' (it appears under
the 'compose' tab of mail & news preferences)

If that doesn't help, try a simple rebuild.

If it still doesn't work it may be that the contacts need refreshing for
some reason. Run this script from script editor:

Tell app "microsoft entourage"
Set theContacts to every contact
Repeat with aContact in theContacts
Open acontact
Close window 1
End repeat
End tell
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Sorry for posting in the wrong tread Barry,

I ran the script but it didn't solve the problem.

I already did a rebuild yesterday but nothing changed then,and finally did
an Advanced Rebuild now and it placed all back ok ,and even better ;it got
rid off all the other spam-mail addresses who were not in the address book
,very nice :)

Thanks a lot for the help.

Grz Franky
 
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