Been using Entourage X for some years on my PMG4/OSX 10/4/9...
This weekend had problem opening Entourage X, said to do Typical Rebuild, which I tried to do but kept getting message at end of process that it couldn't create new database due to lack of hard drive space. This seemed odd as I had plenty of HD space (+/-20GB free..)...
If you want to know more about this disaster you can either read my post on the 911 forum section here or over at the MS Entourage newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft...8b17f043fa483e9
Anyway, reason for this post is to ask for input/thoughts/opinions on whether it's time to use another email app now...starting to question the whole approach that MS Entourage uses of storing everything; emails, contacts, calendar items, etc in one large database file...if that file goes bad and you can't rebuild, you're SOL!! (Unless of course, you have a fairly recent backup file of database available...)
So, wondering do all or most email apps store emails in one database file like Entourage or do they use some other method, less likely to get corrupted, etc???
If so, what other app(s) should I check out???
Or should I stay the course with Entourage and maybe upgrade to newer version??? and of course, make frequent backups of database and store on other HD or CD, etc....
Thanks for any and all input!
Mark
Frustrated Entourage User....
This weekend had problem opening Entourage X, said to do Typical Rebuild, which I tried to do but kept getting message at end of process that it couldn't create new database due to lack of hard drive space. This seemed odd as I had plenty of HD space (+/-20GB free..)...
If you want to know more about this disaster you can either read my post on the 911 forum section here or over at the MS Entourage newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft...8b17f043fa483e9
Anyway, reason for this post is to ask for input/thoughts/opinions on whether it's time to use another email app now...starting to question the whole approach that MS Entourage uses of storing everything; emails, contacts, calendar items, etc in one large database file...if that file goes bad and you can't rebuild, you're SOL!! (Unless of course, you have a fairly recent backup file of database available...)
So, wondering do all or most email apps store emails in one database file like Entourage or do they use some other method, less likely to get corrupted, etc???
If so, what other app(s) should I check out???
Or should I stay the course with Entourage and maybe upgrade to newer version??? and of course, make frequent backups of database and store on other HD or CD, etc....
Thanks for any and all input!
Mark
Frustrated Entourage User....
