Entourage is an email client and personal information manager for MAC operating systems, developed by Microsoft and is part of Microsoft Office suite. Entourage facilitates users to access and organize emails, notes, tasks, journals, calendar entries etc. It can also be used to access Exchange Server accounts.
Like any other application Microsoft Entourage also have some errors that may halt you while working. Some of these errors may cause data loss and you have to look for entourage repair.
Let's consider a practical scenario where in you get an error message while starting the Entourage application or attempting to view email messages from it. And the error message you got is
“Your Offile database is damaged – Do you want to quit MSN Messenger and all Microsoft Office Programs so that the Database Utility can run?”
This error may occur even if you are not using MSN messenger. The main reason behind this error message is damaged Entourage Database. The Entourage Database may get damaged due to various reasons like virus attacks, Entourage Application malfunctioning, improper Entourage or system shutdown, damages file header etc.
Resolution: To resolve this issue follow the below mentioned process:
Before starting Entourage close all applications. Follow below steps to close all applications.
If the issue persists you need to rebuild the entourage database. To know step by step procedure of rebuilding Entourage Database follow the Microsoft Knowledge Base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268322
If the steps mentioned in the knowledge base fails to resolve the issue then you need to recover entourage database using third party entourage recovery tool. There is only one such tool available to repair entourage database and that is Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery. This tool is easy to use and able to recover all mailbox components like mails, contacts, tasks. Calendar entries etc. from RGE file. This tool supports Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger. And is compatible with Microsoft Entourage 2008 & 2004.
Like any other application Microsoft Entourage also have some errors that may halt you while working. Some of these errors may cause data loss and you have to look for entourage repair.
Let's consider a practical scenario where in you get an error message while starting the Entourage application or attempting to view email messages from it. And the error message you got is
“Your Offile database is damaged – Do you want to quit MSN Messenger and all Microsoft Office Programs so that the Database Utility can run?”
This error may occur even if you are not using MSN messenger. The main reason behind this error message is damaged Entourage Database. The Entourage Database may get damaged due to various reasons like virus attacks, Entourage Application malfunctioning, improper Entourage or system shutdown, damages file header etc.
Resolution: To resolve this issue follow the below mentioned process:
Before starting Entourage close all applications. Follow below steps to close all applications.
- Click Apple in the Finder
- Click Force Quit.
If the issue persists you need to rebuild the entourage database. To know step by step procedure of rebuilding Entourage Database follow the Microsoft Knowledge Base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268322
If the steps mentioned in the knowledge base fails to resolve the issue then you need to recover entourage database using third party entourage recovery tool. There is only one such tool available to repair entourage database and that is Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery. This tool is easy to use and able to recover all mailbox components like mails, contacts, tasks. Calendar entries etc. from RGE file. This tool supports Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger. And is compatible with Microsoft Entourage 2008 & 2004.
