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.