Microsoft Entourage is one of the most popular and powerful Email clients from Microsoft for Mac OS X operating system. It is part of Microsoft Office for Mac suite of products. The most recent version of Microsoft Entourage is Entourage 2008, which is included in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
Macintosh Entourage stores all your valuable data in a single database. The Entourage database contains a separate Identity for every Entourage account. The Identity works as a database for each user. Users can switch Identities whenever required. Identities are stored in the Identities folder in Microsoft User Database folder.
Under some circumstances, Entourage database may get damaged due to various reasons, including application malfunction, improper system shutdown, virus infection, and Identity corruption. At this point, Entourage account cannot be accessed and you run across critical data loss situations.
Ways to Fix Entourage database corruption-
# Restore from Backup- Entourage software enables you to backup or archive your database in RGE file. If you have an updated and valid backup of Macintosh Entourage database, import it to the application.
# Rebuild Entourage Database- If backup is not updated, you can try repairing Entourage database using Database Utility. It is an inbuilt utility of Microsoft Entourage that enables you to Rebuild Entourage database.
# Use Entourage Recovery Software- If none of the above methods work, you need to opt for commercial Entourage repair software to repair and restore damaged database.
Entourage database recovery tools are particularly developed to perform thorough scan of whole damaged Entourage email database and extract inaccessible data from it. Entourage software retrieve all of the database items, including emails, tasks, notes, contacts, journal, attachments, and appointments.
Such tools repair Entourage database is a quite easy way with simple and extremely-rich graphical user interface. You need not to have sound technical skills for using these tools. They preserve complete database integrity while recovering data due to their safe conduct.
