Fix outlook for mac 2011 rebuild failure error 18000 and recover lost emails folder structure!File Repair Tool Blog

You may have lost emails from outlook mail 2011 after updating office or Mac to its latest version. Does your outlook for Mac ask you to rebuild identity and repair the emails and fails giving you error 18000 at its 4^th step? And you are unable to recover the emails from the outlook for Mac 2011.

If yes you do then this information will definitely help you in recovering the emails from the corrupt identity. After upgrading the Outlook or Mac to its latest version, Outlook tries to rebuild email database and fails if you do not have enough space on your hard drive. Here is how you can recover the emails from a corrupt identity by following the steps given bellow:

However it result into lot of recovered folders and it fails to keep the folder structure or hierarchy intact. This may take a lot of time for the emails to date back in years and if you have a lot of folders and subfolders in your outlook.

In this method you will be able to recover almost all emails along with folder hierarchy inplace. However it requires fair amount of time, free space and memory in computer system. You need atleast 500 GB free space along with 8 GB of RAM for the process to complete it successfully. You can follow the steps by step instructions as given below to try and recover emails from the corrupted outlook for Mac identity:

• Go to the location Finder: /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities
• Then Copy your identity folder as a backup at a safe location so that incase anything goes wrong, you can have a backup ready to restore.
• Then you need to completely uninstall the whole Microsoft Office 2011 from system
• Then Reboot the system.
• Then you need to install the original Office 2011 14.0.0 onto your computer and ensure that it is activated.
• Then you need to open the Office program like word, excel etc and allow it to fully load up and then quit the program
• Then you need to launch the Auto Update to upgrade Office to SP1 14.1.0.

Note : Ensure that you do not install any later updates than that.

• Then you need to Open the office program such as word, excel etc and wait for it to fully load up and then quit the program.
• Then you need to manually download and install the Microsoft Office 2011 14.1.4 Update
• Then you need to disconnect your computer from the Internet.
• Then you need to open the Microsoft Database Utility, and delete all the existing identities.

Note: There should be only one identity. Your corrupted identity should not appear. If it is presnt then you need to start over from the beginning.

• As now there are no identities in the list, create a new blank identity. Which will be automatically be named “Identity 1″.
• Then you need to Quit the database utility.
• Then again you need to go to identity location: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities.
• In the Duplicate of the old corrupted identity, you need to delete the database file. Then you need to navigate the “Data Records” folder and delete the “Database Headers” folder.
• Now you need to copy the “Database Headers” folder from newly installed and created identity “/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Identity 1/Data Records” and paste it inside the “Data Records” folder of your duplicate old corrupted identity.
• Then you need to Delete newly created identity folder in Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities and then you need to copy your duplicate old Identities folder at this location
• Then you need to launch the database utility, and see duplicate of your old corrupted identity.
• Then you need to Click on Rebuild and recover lost data from old identity.
• After successful rebuild, you will receive a message that says that your database was rebuilt successfully. Then now, you need to quit the database utility.
• After you get disconnected from the internet, start Microsoft Outlook.
• Then you need to move the emails data from your old identity to a new identity in Outlook for Mac 2011to move your emails database to a new identity.
• Then open the Outlook and launch Microsoft Autoupdate to update Microsoft office to latest version.
• Then you need to have your look exactly it did on the day your got corrupted and without any data loss.

If for some reason you fail or miss some of the data then it might indicate towards either low disc space or memory or physically corrupt identity. You may try the above steps again after freeing up more space or increasing memory. Apart from this you may make use of third party repair tool-OLM File Repair Tool to repair these corrupt identity crises and easily recover lost emails folder structure.

Steps for using OLM repair tool are shown below:

Step 1: Click ‘Browse’ to select the corrupt/damaged OLM file and start the repairing process by clicking the ‘Start’ button.

Step 2: The scanning process starts, which is indicated by the ‘Scanning OLM File’ status bar. You can click the ‘Stop’ button to discontinue the process in the middle.

Step 3: After completion of the OLM repair process, the software provides the detailed summary of the entire process which shows the number of recoverable mail objects.

Step 4: : Click on the “mail” icon to preview your recoverable mail in which middle pane shows the mail in the selected mail folder from the left and right pane shows the content from middle pane.

Step 5: Click the ‘Address Book’ icon to preview your recoverable contacts in which middle pane shows all the contacts in the adress book and right pane shows the details of the selected contact.

Step 6: Click the ‘Calendar’ icon to preview your recoverable Calendar notes in which middle pane shows all the calendar entries and the right pane shows the details of the selected entry.

Step 7: By hitting the ‘Notes’ icon, you can preview your recoverable notes. The middle pane will show all the notes which is available in your mailbox and right pane shows contents of the selected note.

Step 8: Hit the ‘Task’ icon to preview your recoverable tasks in which middle pane will show all the task in the mailbox and right pane will show the content of the selected task.

Step 9: Click on the ‘Save Repaired File’ to save the recovered mail objects. Provide the destination name and the file will be saved by the name-Main identity.rge.