Know How To Rebuild and Repair Entourage Database File

Published by jacob355 on November 6, 2013

Corruption in Entourage Database is common for the application and software users. There may be several reasons for this corruption such as database header corruption, virus impact, application malfunction, identity database corruption, database structure corruption and improper system shutdown. Such types of situations could result in corruption in database and it will not allow you to access your contacts, attachments, notes, task, calendar entries and personal emails. Having Rebuild and Repair entourage identity is only way to get back the lost data.

Require to Rebuild Entourage Database:

Rebuilt Entourage Database when:

• Not able to open, view the stored database file
• Found error while starting Entourage Application
• Lost contacts and Calendar Entries
• Need to reclaim disk space
• Search option does not operate as per search criterion
• Calendar entries and contact entries are not displaying properly
• Not able to delete files

When to Avoid Rebuild Entourage Database

It is highly recommended that rebuilding database is not to be used as a regular maintenance. Rebuilding should not be taken as an adequate backup or as a alternate option. It encouraged and recommended for the back up of critical data on regular basis.

Rebuilding is to be avoid unless you are confirmed that there is database corruption. Some users of Rebuild Entourage misunderstood that the database rebuilding will save their data from corruption in data in future.

Process to Rebuild and repair Entourage Database

Precautions:

• Sometimes during operation, it might be happen that your real file get merged with duplicate file results in a total mess. So it is advised to make a false file in finder first as an additional backup.
• It is always good to make a backup of original data, if something went wrong your data could be lost. So before starting rebuild copy your original data in your Identity folder.
• Make sure that there is sufficient disk memory available to get avoid from any kind of interruption and to make process success, because during the process of rebuild, entourage creates a new database backup file.
• Configure and locate the size of the database.

Steps to be followed to rebuild:

• Exit all applications that are running that may interrupt during rebuilding, including anti-virus applications, Microsoft Messenger for Mac, Office Notifications and all Office applications, etc. To exit an application, click the menu on toolbar (at the top) and select Quit.
• Launch Entourage 2004/2008 while pressing down the option key
• Click  database in the “Database utility window”
• Select “Rebuild Database” and then click Continue.
• Select “Done”. Press “Quit” then launch and verify your problem is solved or not.

Sometimes database is corrupted severely, then  Entourage Database repair tool available by third party will effectively works and will backup all data. No previous technical information is needed to use this ready application. Entourage Recovery toolbar is simple to use its interface and restore corrupt contacts , address book, calendar entries, task and emails with entirely. The application recover and store files in new RGE folder while real RGE file kept intact, which is easily can be imported in Entourage.