What to do when Entourage Application keeps crashing?

Microsoft Entourage comes as a part of office productivity suite for Mac users. Entourage provides email, calendar, contacts, task list, note list and project manager to its user. Its last version is Entourage 2008 which was released on January 2008. Entourage is a popular email client for Apple users which works by creating Identities. For each user account Entourage creates an Identity which is stored in the Microsoft User Data (MUD) folder.

Identities faciliate multiple Entourage users each having a different mail account and personal information to work from the same computer. Just like the other email application available in the market, Entourage is not free from corruption. A commonplace bhaviour of Entourage that is observed at times of database corruption is:

Entourage keeps on crashing again and again each time an attempt is made to open it.
Reinstalling the Microsoft Office suite does not solve the problem.
Trying to rebuild database using Database Utility proves futile.
Each time Entourage is opened, you have to force quit the application.

If Entourage becomes unresponsive or crashes everytime, then all the user data stored in the database will be lost due to inaccessibility. The root of the problem lies in Entourage database corruption owing to:

1.RGE file header corruption
2.Virus attack
3.Dirty shutdown
4.Improper Entourage termination
5.Application malfunction
6.Missing or corrupt Identity
7.File system problems

To resolve the problem of application crashing try to perform Entourage Repair using any one of the following methods:

1.Sometimes it happens that Entourage is scheduled to download emails from the Exchange Server. However, if the message being downloaded is corrupt or damaged, then Entourage application crashes. Find the corrupt message and delete it to solve the problem.
2.Often faulty installation of Entourage application or Mac OS causes the application to crash. Use Disk Utility to repair disk permissions.
3.If none of the above cases seem applicable, then the Entourage database has succumbed to corruption. Try to restore the database using the most recent backup available.

In case all these steps fail to resolve the issue or you do not have an updated backup, then don't worry, the battle is not yet lost. When all else fails, trust a professional third party Entourage Repair tool that can recover Microsoft Entourage database items into an importable RGE file. “Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery” is a preeminent tool for MS Entourage 2008 and 2004. The utility is completely read only in nature and the best solution if you are looking to rebuild entourage database. This dexterous software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and 10.4 Tiger.

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Repair and Recover Data Even after Corruption of Entourage Database

Entourage is an e-mail client developed by Microsoft for Mac operating system. Similar to other e-mail clients, Microsoft Entourage can also face database corruption issues due to many reasons which can also lead to data loss situations. In such situations, you can not access any of the items in Entourage. To deal with such cases, you can use Entourage repair software and recover your data from corrupt Entourage database.

Many Entourage users receive an error message while sending or accessing Entourage items. The error message may resemble to the following:

“The Office database is damaged”

Cause:

In order to fix this issue, you need to find the exact cause of this error message. The above error message usually occurs when the Entourage database is damaged or corrupted. However, an Entourage database file may become corrupt due to any of the following reasons:

Entourage has a recommended limit for storing items in a folder and having large number of items in a folder means that operations will take more time to execute. Moreover, if user exceeds the limit then a number of issues may arise including corruption of Entourage database.

Like MS Outlook, Entourage also has a storage limit for its database file which is limited to 4 GB. If the data in this file exceeds the limit, the database file becomes corrupted. Virus infection may also corrupt the database which in turn makes the database inaccessible.

Solution:

To resolve this issue, you can follow any of the below given measures:

1.Rebuild Entourage Database and create a new identity
2.Create a new folder for Microsoft user database
3.Repair disk permissions using Disk Utility
4.Create a new user account

After following the above mentioned resolutions, it is possible that you may face the same issue again. Also, if you are creating a new folder, identity or account then you may not be able to access your old e-mails stored in the corrupt RGE file. For this, you need a Entourage database repair tool that can help you to repair the corrupt database file.

You can find a number of recovery software on the Internet. A computer beginner is always worried about the user interface and features of the software thus you can search for the software that are available with a free demo version.

Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery is one of such tools that is available with a free demo version so that you can try its features and functionalities before purchasing it. With this software, you can easily recover Entourage items such as emails, contacts, calendar items, tasks, etc. from corrupt RGE file. Moreover, this software has a self-descriptive user-interface and can be used by a novice to recover data from corrupt RGE file.

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