Way to Fix “Your Office database is damaged” Error in Microsoft Entourage

Are you having some gray areas in your Microsoft Entourage subfolders and the messages appear to be damaged? Are you unable to open the messages from gray areas in Mac Entourage database? Well, you may run across this behavior of MS Entourage due to either database corruption or Identity corruption. In such cases, application cannot recognize the database and you face this issue. In such critical situations, you are required to opt for Entourage repair solutions to get your mission critical data back.

In a practical scenario, you might encounter the below error message while accessing emails from Macintosh Entourage database-

“Your Office database is damaged - Do you want to quit MSN Messenger and all Microsoft Office programs so that the Database Utility can run?”

The above error occurs with two options- Quit Office Programs and Cancel. If you try to remove the affected items from Entourage account, you run across further error message stating-

“The action could not be completed. An unknown error 4363 occurred.”

In case you try to rebuild Entourage database using Database Utility, the process cannot complete. However, it creates one new Identity for you and the corrupted items still appear in your Entourage account.

Cause

This behavior may occur due to any of the following reasons-

• Corrupt items in Entourage database.

• Damaged Database

• Virus Infection

• Faulty Entourage identity

Nevertheless of the root of the issue, you must sort out the issue to get your mission critical data recovered.

Resolution

You can try fixing this problem by exporting your database to RGE file. Go through the below steps to archive Entourage database:

• Open your Entourage account and go to affected Identity.

• Click Export option in File menu.

• Save the archive in the form of RGE file on desired location.

This is one of the best ways to fix such problems, but in some cases you might get the following error while exporting the database-

“Export/Import Incomplete/’There was a problem saving one of your messages. Your Office database may be damaged. Start the Database Utility to verify your database’”

At this point of time, Entourage recovery software come for your rescue. The applications are particularly designed to perform thorough scan of whole Entourage database and extract all emails, notes, tasks, journal, contacts, attachments, appointments and other data from it. 

Entourage database recovery tools are incorporated with rich and interactive graphical user interface to ensure easy and quick recovery. The applications repair entourage database safely and preserve absolute integrity of your precious data with read-only and non-destructive conduct.