Restarting Entourage automatically opens an old email

[Paula Nancarrow]

I'm trying to figure out why every time I restart Entourage, an old email
dated 9/28/2009 opens up. I can close it, delete it, move it; it doesn't
matter. The next time I shut and restart Entourage, there it will be again.
Wassup with that? And does anyone know how to fix it? Paula N.

 

[Diane Ross]

I'm trying to figure out why every time I restart Entourage, an old email
dated 9/28/2009 opens up. I can close it, delete it, move it; it doesn't
matter. The next time I shut and restart Entourage, there it will be again.
Wassup with that? And does anyone know how to fix it? Paula N.

Sounds like database corruption. Try rebuilding your database.

How to rebuild:

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

Make a duplicate in the Finder first as additional backup. A rebuild does
make a duplicate, but sometimes in the process the original and backup get
merged resulting in total disaster. It's rare but it happens.