Resolve for MS Entourage Corruption due to complex HTML formatting

Microsoft is a well known email application for Apple Mac users. Entourage facilitates emails, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks and project manager. Entourage supports POP, IMAP and WebDAV. The ability to work as a client for Microsoft Exchange is another feather in its cap.

Entourage is deployed by a number of professional Mac users as their personal information manager. MS Entourage is crafted to support both text based emails and HTML emails. The difference between the two is that HTML emails incorporate links, brochures, images, and templates to be inserted in the body of the message for better readability and understanding.

A complex HTML formatted email becomes unreadable for MS Entourage and when such a message is accessed it appears blank. In some cases, complex formatting also causes the Microsoft Entourage application to crash which can cause corruption in the database. If unexpected crash corrupts the application then Entourage Repair is required.

To fix the problem of complex formatting follow these steps:

1.Locate the following files from Macintosh HD/Users//Library/Preferences and drag com.microsoft.explorer.plist and com.apple.internetconfig.plist to desktop.
2.Re-launch the Entourage application see if the problem still occurs.
3.If the problem persists, move the files back to their original location.
4.If it resolves the issue, remove those files permanently.

If the aforestated steps fail to resolve the issue, then it is case of Entourage database corruption. When the Entourage application burns with the heat of corruption, then the first step is to rebuild Entourage database. For this Microsoft has provided an inbuilt utility named Database Utility. This utility helps to rebuild the Entourage database and makes it accessible again. However, if the utility is somehow not able to rebuild the database and there is no backup available, then it is time to seek professional help.

The market is flooding with a number of professional third party Entourage Repair software that can effectively handle such cases of database corruption. One such tool is “Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery”. The software restores all the emails, notes, address book and calendar items for Entourage 2008/2004 and restores it an a RGE file that can be imported back into MS Entourage. The demo version of this adroit tool offers the preview of recoverable items in a three view structure. The software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and 10.4 Tiger.