[CUBE] help...

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-03-22 16:53, john guy wrote:

> On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> 
>> Then, start Entourage, as suggested, with the Option key held down. There
>> will be a dialog, asking if you want to rebuild your Entourage data. Choose a
>> standard rebuild, first. If after that Entourage comes up with your email and
>> other data, fine.
> 
> 'Tis always done that is not the issue the issue is that because the defaults
> for the partition are corrupt when you relaunch entourage it thinks it is
> starting for the first time does not find the previous MUD folder and
> identities etc
> 
> BUT the most frustrating thing is that the old stuff is still there but I have
> not got a *&^%$ing clue how to point to the old ID etc rather than the new
> one, tried moving the files etc but that just says the the files are not
> linked to that identity etc

Ah..! The *real* problem is starting to dawn on me now... ;-)

>> [...] open the file "Database", which is located in ~/Documents/Microsoft
>> User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity, with a text editor, like for
>> instance BBEdit. Scroll through the file, and copy all of the emails you can
>> find, and deem important enough to save, from this file. There'll be lots of
>> crap in between the useful data, but if you really want it back, this is the
>> last resort at getting at it.
> 
> Read you other mail first and decided to not risk it... Please anyone else?

You're right, this is really the last resort... When you are sure there is
no other way of getting back your data, you can always try this.

> Just so you have an idea of scale of files etc here messages 625.5 MB Database
> 2.6 MB

That's Entourage 2001, right? Not Entourage X? Entourage X has no "Messages"
file, just "Database".

Anyway, the principle is the same. You want to make Entourage recognise your
'real' identity.

Make sure your Identity folder is in the right place. That's
Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Identities (from memory, I don't use
Entourage 2001 any longer).

There should be a folder there called "Main Identity", or something else if
you renamed your Entourage identity to something else.

Take your 'old' identity folder, rename it to 'John Guy', and place it in
the same folder as the 'Main Identity' folder. Then, start Entourage. It'll
start with the 'Main Identity' active. Under the File menu, there is an
option to switch identities. If all is reasonably well, you should be able
to choose the 'John Guy' identity from there. If there are problems,
choosing an identity with Option held down works like starting Entourage
with Option depressed, and will offer the choice of standard and advanced
rebuild of your data files.

Excellent Entourage help is found on Microsoft's news server,
news.microsoft.com, in the group microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage.

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