Entourage fails to open and displays an error message “The Rules file appears corrupt.”

Published by jacob355 on February 21, 2014

Microsoft Entourage is the popular and advanced email client manager. It is an Outlook for Mac users that manages your valuable data such as email, contacts, notes, calendar entries, task etc. It allows you to create rules that let you move emails from particular people to a folder or to take some specific action. But in some cases the rules file get corrupted, damaged, If you are getting an error notification that your  “The Rules file appears corrupt. Rules cannot be used” and makes your data inaccessible. It prevents you from entering in MS Entourage. Thus you need to repair Entourage to fix this issue.

Just take a real life example of this issue with your Entourage. While working on entourage you suddenly came across the following error message “The Rules file appears corrupt. Rules cannot be used.” You tried everything to resolve this error but nothing worked.  You even trashed the “Rules folder”, but still you got the same error message. You tried to copy the “Main Identity” but find that there is more than one Identity with the same label. You ran a database utility and verified that the database is corrupted. After verifying you attempt to run rebuild process by using Database Utility but the error fail to resolve.

All you important and valuable data became inaccessible. In order to get rid of this you need a repair tool that can repair your corrupt database. But before going in its repairing process you need to know the reason behind corruption:

The corruption in Entourage can occurs due to the following reasons:

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

To get rid of this error you need a third party tool. Entourage Repair Tool that can easily repair corrupt, damage, inaccessible database. This repair tool is capable of handling any corruption issues and effectively restores your valuable data. It provides safe, easy, recovery for every Entourage objects. It is very hard to restore the corruption issue but this repair tool can easily repair the corrupted file. If you have a backup then you can easily get back the data form their but if you don’t have the backup then this tool can help you to get back the data. 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.

As entourage doesn’t have any file formats thus the data are stored in the RGE files which is the backup or identical copy stored in hard drive.  It can easily extract almost every data base objects from corrupted Entourage database. By using the complicated scanning algorithms it deeply scans your corrupted database. Within few minutes you will get back your corrupted file in a new healthy form. It just need few simple steps to complete the repairing process. So to get rid of corruption issue use this repair tool