Entourage is a email-client software that is being provided by Microsoft. Entourage is being widely used by MAC users as an email client and personal information manager. Entourage uses RGE files to store all the mailbox data on your local system. This RGE file is also known as entourage database file. Entourage database may get corrupted due to various reasons that may lead to inaccessibility of the data stored in Entourage application.
How do you know that your database gets corrupted?
Below are some most common situations which indicate that your entourage database gets corrupted.
Problem with opening or viewing any component of the entourage database.
Big grey blank of about 3-4 lines in Inbox on which if you click, freezes the screen and/or terminates Entourage.
You become unable to delete any mailbox component.
Entourage crashes or freezes while launching.
Beside these symptoms, there might be various other situations that indicate corruption of entourage database depending on your system configuration and the usage of the application. There are also some per-defined error messages that appear when your entourage database gets corrupted.
No need to worry!!! If you realize that your entourage database gets corrupted. Entourage comes with a built-in utility known as Database Utility that is designed to diagnose the reason behind the corruption and rebuild the entourage database.
How to use Entourage Database Utility?
A new window will pop up that shows you the status of the process. After completion of the rebuild process click Done. And then Click Quit.
If the database utility fails to rebuild the entourage database it means that the corruption is of higher level or you do not have enough free disk space (in some cases it have been noticed that the database utility succeed to rebuilt the entourage database when used on the systems with larger amount of free disk space).
Still, you can recover the damaged entourage database by using third party entourage repair tool. As of now, Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery is only third party utility available to repair entourage database file (RGE) in all instances of corruption and inaccessibility. The demo version is free that shows 100% preview of all the recoverable components of RGE file. This utility supports Entourage 2004 and 2008.
How do you know that your database gets corrupted?
Below are some most common situations which indicate that your entourage database gets corrupted.
Problem with opening or viewing any component of the entourage database.
Big grey blank of about 3-4 lines in Inbox on which if you click, freezes the screen and/or terminates Entourage.
You become unable to delete any mailbox component.
Entourage crashes or freezes while launching.
Beside these symptoms, there might be various other situations that indicate corruption of entourage database depending on your system configuration and the usage of the application. There are also some per-defined error messages that appear when your entourage database gets corrupted.
No need to worry!!! If you realize that your entourage database gets corrupted. Entourage comes with a built-in utility known as Database Utility that is designed to diagnose the reason behind the corruption and rebuild the entourage database.
How to use Entourage Database Utility?
- Close all Microsoft office applications.
- Go to Applications > Microsoft Office > Office.
- Double click on the Database Utility.
- Select respective database and choose Rebuild database.
- Click Continue.
A new window will pop up that shows you the status of the process. After completion of the rebuild process click Done. And then Click Quit.
If the database utility fails to rebuild the entourage database it means that the corruption is of higher level or you do not have enough free disk space (in some cases it have been noticed that the database utility succeed to rebuilt the entourage database when used on the systems with larger amount of free disk space).
Still, you can recover the damaged entourage database by using third party entourage repair tool. As of now, Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery is only third party utility available to repair entourage database file (RGE) in all instances of corruption and inaccessibility. The demo version is free that shows 100% preview of all the recoverable components of RGE file. This utility supports Entourage 2004 and 2008.
