Cannot acccess mail in Entourage database

[Armstrong-Keta, Inc.]

My G5 running OS 10.3.5 crashed a couple of days ago, subjecting me to the
dreaded SBOD (spinning beach ball of death). I had to force quit the finder,
but when I restarted, my dock preferences had changed to default, my toolbar
icons had changed to folders and my desktop files had disappeared. I could
solve all these problems, but when I opened Entourage (2004, version
11.1.0), my in box was empty. I ran Disk Utility from my Power Mac CD to
repair the hard drive (it cited corrupted permissions for Entourage which it
then repaired). I can find the Entourage database file, residing in Home/
Documents/ Microsoft User Data/ Office 2004 Identities/ Main Identities /
Database. The Database file contains 299 MB, so I assume this is the one
with all my mail in it. But I can't figure out how to open it, instead of
the empty account that comes up when I launch Entourage. I've been
reluctant to do too much uninformed experimentation in fear that I might
overwrite the database file and corrupt the data. Can anyone point me in
the right direction?

Muchas gracias,
Bart Watson

 

[Andrea González]

I found myself on a similar situation one time when trying to read an old
database I restored from a backup. I found that the problem was that I had
changed the name. Instead of Database my file had the name Database 2002.
When I renamed it to Database it worked. Hope this helps.


Andrea.