Recover Entourage Calendar from Time

[Desiree]

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

Hi I did a bad synch with my Blackberry a few days ago and some of my appointments got moved to either the day before or after.... Very annoying
Now my computer is backed up every day by Time Machine so the old data is there but I would like to just recover the Calendar because I have already received number of emails and I don't want to loose them
Is there a way to recover only the Calendar?
Thanks
Desiree

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

HI,

Hi I did a bad synch with my Blackberry a few days ago and some of my
appointments got moved to either the day before or after.... Very
annoying Now my computer is backed up every day by Time Machine so the
old data is there but I would like to just recover the Calendar because
I have already received number of emails and I don't want to loose them
Is there a way to recover only the Calendar? Thanks Desiree

Ouch... Entourage stores everything in a monolythic database. Time
Machine doesn't play well with this design so the only thing you could
do would be to restore the entire database as it was at the time of the
backup you selected. This means also reverting e-mails, contacts, etc...
It can't restore just the calendar events.


Corentin

 

[RickVA]

I have backups of all Entourage '08 files (Data Backup 3 versioned backup). After a system crash, I would like to restore the mailbox, contacts, etc.

Wondering if someone could tell me which folders/files to restore - I am new to OS X.

I have reinstalled OS X to 10.5.5 and have re-installed Ofc 2008 SP1.

 

[Diane Ross]

I have backups of all Entourage '08 files (Data Backup 3 versioned backup).
After a system crash, I would like to restore the mailbox, contacts, etc.

Wondering if someone could tell me which folders/files to restore - I am new
to OS X.

I have reinstalled OS X to 10.5.5 and have re-installed Ofc 2008 SP1.

Entourage stores all it's data in your Identity. You can find your Identity
named "Main" by default in this folder:

~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity

You will need to completely replace the entire Identity folder.

You do need to update Office 2008 to 12.1.4.

Download and install 12.1.3 then 12.1.4.

Tip: It is NOT recommended that you backup Entourage with Time Machine on
the hourly schedule. As a general rule you should shut down all Office
programs (including Office Notifications) before any Entourage backups. If
not the backup could be corrupt.

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/alternative_method_to_use_entourage_
and_time_machine.html>