Getting email out of corrupt Database with out Entourage

[dmehrman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

I have a corrupt entourage database that i need to pull messages from. The database crashed and wanted to rebuild, when it rebuilt it deleted thousands of messages from the exchange database on the server and this old backup-ed identity is all i have to pull from.

Any thoughts on how to get them out with? MS Utilities or third party software?

thank you

 

[Diane Ross]

I have a corrupt entourage database that i need to pull messages from. The
database crashed and wanted to rebuild, when it rebuilt it deleted thousands
of messages from the exchange database on the server and this old backup-ed
identity is all i have to pull from.

If you have the copy Entourage made during the rebuild, you might be able to
get it from that Identity. Does that Identity open at all?

I've seen some crashes result from insufficient space on the hard drive. How
much free space do you have?

 

[dmehrman]

I have the entire backed up User Data folder. But last time we opened it, the mail account is unusable once the entourage tries to sync up to the server and can't find message it thinks are there.
it even locks up the webmail for that user.

I was hoping to dig into the file some how to pull the messages out.

Space isn't really an issue the user has plenty on their computer... however it is a huge email account... the database is about 60GB.

 

[Diane Ross]

I have the entire backed up User Data folder. But last time we opened it, the
mail account is unusable once the entourage tries to sync up to the server and
can't find message it thinks are there.
it even locks up the webmail for that user.

Set to work off line under Entourage in the Menu bar.

I've worked on client's Exchange databases like this and it's a real
challenge to clean them up.

Because of the size you might have hit the limit on items in a database.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/size.html>