What to do when your Entourage Database keeps crashing?

Published by jacob355 on March 28, 2014

Microsoft Entourage is a commonly used email application that suite for Mac users. It provides email, calendar, task list, to do, notes, contacts, project manager to its users. It works by creating identities that is stored in (MUD) Microsoft User Data folder. Corruption in Entourage database is very common for its user. When your entourage database corrupts then you are unable to recognize your corrupt database. At this situation you might be unable to access your important data.  Mac user always confronts strange behavior while using Entourage application. They face issue of application freezing and crashing.

When your precious data becomes inaccessible then you need to resolve the issue as soon as possible.  

Identities make easy for different users having the same mail account and personal data to work on same operating system. Just other application entourage is also prone to corruption. The common behavior that is noticed at the time of database corruption is that it keeps crashing again and again as you try to open it. Just imagine a practical scenario you are working on entourage but suddenly you are forced to quit the application. You closed the application but after few minutes when you tried to open the application it crashed. Each time you open the application you are forced to quit it. You thought to reinstall the Microsoft Office suite but your problem didn’t resolved.

You try to rebuild the application by the help of Database Utility but it proves to be useless. So what you will do at this situation when your database becomes unresponsive, freezes and crashes each time you open it. All the data stored in it will be lost due the inaccessibility. Losing your important data is very heartbreaking situation for its user. But it is very important to find out the root cause of this problem to resolve the issue in better manner.

Below you have few main reasons that play their important role behind the file corruption crashes your application and make your data inaccessible

• Due to corrupt of damaged entourage identity.
• Due to some missing files.
• Application malfunctioning
• Improper system shut down
• Database header corruption
• Abrupt Application malfunctioning
• Database structure corruption
• Virus attack
• Identity corruption
• Rule files corruption in Entourage
• Error message can be misleading
• RGE file header corruption
• File system issues

The corruption in entourage occurs due to the following reasons. Thus it is very important to resolve the corruption issue to access your inaccessible data.

When you schedule to download emails from the Exchange Server and if the message during downloading gets corrupted or damaged then your application crashes. You can find the corrupt or damaged message to resolve this error. Opening the broken or infected installation of Entourage application or Mac OS can also lead to application crash. To resolve the issue you can use Disk Utility. If the reason behind your application crashes is none of the above reason then you restore the database from the recent backup but if you don’t have backup file then you need top used third party repair tool that can efficiently resolve the corruption issue in your entourage.  

If all the above steps fail to resolve the issue then the third party repair tool can recover Microsoft Entourage database. Entourage Repair Tool that can easily repair corrupt, damage, inaccessible database. It is capable of handling any sort of corruption in your entourage database. It can recover your precious data such as email messages, attachments, calendar entries, notes, task, to do list, project files, events, etc. it can also recover data from RGE files. It needs few simple steps to complete the repairing process. So to get rid of corruption issue use this repair tool.