recover deleted notes

[benito]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

After typing a note within entourage, i deleted it by mistake. how can i recover it? i did a search on my computer without success...
it was 2 hours of work..
I try to do UNDO but it was not available
thanks for any help
ben

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Entourage database items aren't stored as individual files in the Finder, so
you won't be able to find them there. Unfortunately, there's not much you
can do if didn't make a backup of the database with the note intact.

With Entourage closed, you could try opening the Entourage database
(/Users/<Your User>/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008
Identities/<Your Identity>/Database) in a text editor and searching for the
text, and then copying and pasting it into another text document. Be sure
not to edit the database or you could render it unusable (best to make a
backup before you try this).

 

[benito]

Entourage database items aren't stored as individual files in the Finder, so

you won't be able to find them there. Unfortunately, there's not much you
can do if didn't make a backup of the database with the note intact.

With Entourage closed, you could try opening the Entourage database
(/Users//Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008
Identities//Database) in a text editor and searching for the
text, and then copying and pasting it into another text document. Be sure
not to edit the database or you could render it unusable (best to make a
backup before you try this).

Thanks Mikael. This is a pretty big flaw for Microsoft entourage software. your solution seems risky and as I have not done a backup yet of my new computer I will try it later.. Do you know if Apple will help finding other solution?.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

After typing a note within entourage, i deleted it by mistake. how can i
recover it? i did a search on my computer without success...
it was 2 hours of work..
I try to do UNDO but it was not available
thanks for any help
ben

It may be possible to recover the info from the spotlight data cache - go to
your home directory (the one with your login name), then navigate to
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Microsoft/Entourage/2008/[your identity name]/Notes/

you can then navigate down the hierarchy of subfolders until you get to the
individual cache files. right-click (control-click) on each file and select
'open with...' and navigate to a text editing application - textedit will do
if you have nothing better installed. This will open the cache file in text
form, and the body of the note can be recovered froom teh xml overhead hat is
displayed.