How to recover corrupted attachments from Microsoft EntourageFile Repair Tool Blog

Many times it happens that your Microsoft Entourage file does not open because it has got corrupted and you may come across such issue when the application fails to identify the file. Even the attached file which is with entourage also corrupts and hence it results in ‘Unable to start Entourage’ or ‘Entourage crashes with each successive attempt’ issues. Such type of corruption is common on entourage file and therefore it needs to be repaired. At that time, you need a recovery solution to repair and recover Entourage attachments. But before that it is necessary to know the reasons behind the corruption of entourage attachments.

What are the reasons behind corruption?

Though there are several reasons behind the corruption, among them some are mentioned below which can help you to completely know about corruption issues.

• Microsoft Entourage has ‘Temp’ folder in which it saves any attachments before opening. When Microsoft fails to save the attachments then it crashes instantly. Therefore to remove such problem, the folder needs to be deleted that can be easily found in user data folder of Microsoft. But next time when entourage is run, new folder gets created and now here you will be able to save the attachment.
• Even the update of Office 2.2.3 may cause entourage database to corrupt MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint files. If sometimes you fail to open any files that are sent in entourage then you should try logging into webmail interface and download the attachments via safari or Firefox.
• May be sometimes you may receive corrupt or damaged attachments because of incompatible encoding methods. You should be ensuring about the sender who have made the changes in entourage to set attachments to be encoded by using ‘AppleDouble’ encoding format.

Even after making lots of effort or trying some method to fix the solution, still the problem does not resolved and hence the corrupted attachments stays without repaired. One of the last solutions that are left to repair the corrupted entourage attachments is by rebuilding Entourage database by using inbuilt utility provide offer by Microsoft Entourage. This utility can help you as this repair the entourage database with the rebuilding process.

Solution

Well most of the times rebuilding the database with the help of tool may solve the issue but it does not help when the corruption is severe. At that situation, you need professional Entourage recovery software which can help you to fix the corrupted attachments along with recovering of data. You should use Entourage File Repair tool to repair the corrupt attachments of entourage database. It restores all corrupted data from the database of RGE file. The repair tool is developed by industry professional and it runs very powerful algorithms to fix every situation of entourage database. It has user friendly interface which helps the repair process more attractive.

STEPS TO REPAIR ENTOURAGE FILES:

Step 1: Begin Entourage repair Tool. Then ‘Select Entourage Database File’ dialog box which occurs by default. In the text box you will find a default location of database file. Press on ‘Browse’ option to pick database file from any new spot.

Step 2: After this the file will scan itself. After completion of scanning process, a summary message box will get displayed. Then close the message box.

Step 3: After this have a preview of the repaired Entourage database file before saving, open it in Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair. You will find the default repaired mail which is displayed on the preview window. To have a preview of any mail, click on ‘Mail’ button of the Tool bar or go to ‘View’ menu and click Mail option. You can even select your desired Entourage mailbox folder to see its contents.

Step 4: To save the repaired entourage file at your desired location, click on the File option on the application’s menu bar. Select the ‘Save Repaired File’ option. After this you will find the ‘Destination Folder’ dialog box. Select your desired destination for saving the repaired file.

Step 5: After this you will find a Saving process dialog box. You can even click on ‘Stop’ button to stop the file saving process.