Microsoft Database Daemon Problem

[dancedepot]

For the last several months, I've noticed that every day or two
Entourage (11.2.1) on my machine will hang. I can work in other
programs no problem; just can't do anything in Entourage. After a few
minutes, the hang clears and Entourage operates perfectly normally.

It just happened today, and during the hang I launched Activity
Monitor. Seems the culprit is the Microsoft Database Daemon, which was
listed in red and "not responding" in Activity Monitor. When the
hang cleared the "not responding" message disappeared as well as
the red color (switched to normal black).

I understand the role of the daemon, but still don't think it should
cause the machine to hang like. I have rebuilt my database several
times, which is only 1.2 GB in size.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Diane Ross [MVP]]

For the last several months, I've noticed that every day or two
Entourage (11.2.1) on my machine will hang. I can work in other
programs no problem; just can't do anything in Entourage. After a few
minutes, the hang clears and Entourage operates perfectly normally.

It just happened today, and during the hang I launched Activity
Monitor. Seems the culprit is the Microsoft Database Daemon, which was
listed in red and "not responding" in Activity Monitor. When the
hang cleared the "not responding" message disappeared as well as
the red color (switched to normal black).

I understand the role of the daemon, but still don't think it should
cause the machine to hang like. I have rebuilt my database several
times, which is only 1.2 GB in size.

Usually, you see this type of behavior when Entourage is downloading mail.
I'm not sure how the daemon is causing the hang.

Do you have multiple daemons in Login Items? If you see more than one
Microsoft Database daemon delete them all and let Entourage recreate a new
one.