Entourage is known to its users in a better way as it serves the same features of a personal assistant that helps to manage emails, notes, calendars, address books, etc.
- The package that was released along with the Mac version included Entourage, word, excel, and PowerPoint. All these tools made a significant difference with their release making the office 2008 version much more adaptive to Mac OS X. The Microsoft word 2008 for Mac edition had a lot of significant features that made the system much.
- Entourage Email Archive X (EEAX) is a utility for archiving emails and attachments you have received or sent using Microsoft Entourage in Mac OS X. EEAX can archive your emails in seven different ways with further sub-options. Emails backed up and restored One of the features of EEAX is archiving emails in native Entourage file format. The files with.eml extensions give you the possibility.
- Entourage is an email client and personal information manager, that was developed by Microsoft for the Mac OS. The application allows you to save the data in a custom mailbox, for working offline.
Mail Extractor Max is an email migration app, designed for Mac that could handle huge sizes and multiple files from Apple Mail to convert to Entourage 2008. It performs well under heavy loads and does not show any signs of sluggishness or inefficiency. How to Set Up Entourage for Mac OS X to Send and Receive Email You will need your email server settings to set up your email program. Print or write down the information that is displayed for use during this walkthrough.
Especially the Mac users use this service to manage their emails with calendars, attachments, address book, and others.
But this email client also makes you suffer a lot when it gets damaged or corrupt. Various reasons like internal and external factors affect this email client and users face difficulty in sending mail, come across connection error, bad recipient, not able to access stored data, etc.
So if you are coming across Entourage 2008 is not working properly and looking for solutions then read this blog carefully.
Practical scenario
Yesterday, I had upgraded Mac OSX from 10.9 (Mavericks) to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. But, my email application (MS Entourage 2008) is not showing all emails properly.
I didn’t find any relevant answer on official website of Microsoft or Apple.
Please suggest the way to recover my lost emails & contacts in MS Entourage 2008.
Can anyone explain step-wise process of Installing Entourage 2008 on Mac OSX 10.11 ?
Source: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1452328-entourage-2008-is-not-working-properly-on-mac-osx-10-11-el-capitan
As per user, after they upgrade their Mac computers, Entourage 2008 starts to display error messages and in many cases, it stops working.
What are the causes of the error?
Generally, Entourage users know its better that Entourage identity allows users to create more than one account to access their email contacts, journals, tasks, calendar entries. But all these identities use different account settings.
And here the problem occurs when messages, tasks, notes, etc are created by multiple identities and increases the size. This is where the Entourage identities damages and it stops working.
How to resolve Entourage 2008 is not working on Mac
Here it is suggested to use the Inbuilt database utility of MS Entourage to rebuild the database and it can solve corruption or other issue on Entourage.
Step 1: Close all the applications running on your Mac computer, to close all of the running application press ‘Command’, ‘Option’ and ‘Esc’ keys together. After it choose the application under the ‘Force Quit Application’ window and choose ‘Force Quit’.
Step 2: Make sure that your computer has space to create entourage backup. To verify, Go to File>Get Info>Get Information.
If you don’t know the size of the current identity, then click on “Go” in the “Finder” tab -> click “Home” and open the documents folder. Search and open Microsoft User Data Folder. Open Office 2011 folder or whatever version Office has and click on Identity Folder. Again click on Go to File>Get Info>Get information.
Step 3: Now you have to back up the current identity. For this click on the “Go” in the “Finder” tab. After it click “Home” and open the Documents folder.
You need to rebuild a database with the help of backup. Here is how to do:
- First, go to Home and double tap on Documents folder > Microsoft user data folder
- After that, double-tap on Office 2008 Identities
- Now, right-click on Identity folder > tap on Duplicate
- At last, close all Windows
Step 4: In this step, you need to rebuild your database. Close all the applications and open Entourage. Keep pressing the Alt key (on your keyboard) while opening Entourage. Don’t free it until the “Data Utility” window opens. After it choose the Main Identity. Click on the “Rebuild Database” option and press “Continue”.
- First, press ALT key, restart Entourage, and continue to hold Alt key unless the Database Utility option opens
- Now, choose the main identity from Database Utility. Then tap on Rebuild database > Continue
- Here the status bar will display the status of Rebuild after the process is over. When database rebuilds then message displays on screen “Your Database was successfully rebuilt”
- At last, tap on the Close button, and your Entourage 2008 database is repaired and will work as before.
Step 5: After the completion, you will see a message. Click “Done” and then “Quit”.
After you follow the above steps, if the database is not rebuilt successfully then you have to create a new identity. When multiple identities are there on the Exchange server then it needs to create a fresh identity to fix the error.
Here are the steps to create a new identity:
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- First, quit all the apps and look for folder ‘HD/Users/USER_NAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/IDENTITY_NAME’ and copy it on desktop
- Now, start Entourage and tap on Entourage menu to click on Switch Identity
- Next, tap on New and type new identity name
- Then, quit Entourage and search folder ‘HD/Users/USER_NAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/NEW_IDENTITY_NAME’ and then, rename it
- And now, copy the database that was in the old database to a new folder
Step 6: At this step, copy the database file from IDENTITY_NAME folder to NEW_IDENTITY_FOLDER.
Step 7: Run Entourage and check if the problem is solved or not.
Without rebuilding the identity, if you want to repair the Entourage database and create a backup, then use the “Compact Database” option.
Apply the below mentioned stages:
- Close Entourage and all other running applications.
- Open Entourage and open the ‘Database Utility’ window by pressing Command and Option keys together.
- Navigate to the Identity tab and check that you select “Main Identity”. Click the “Compact Database” option and then Continue.
- After the completion, click “Done” and continue to the next window.
- At last, open your Entourage database, and here you will get a brand new database with blank database files. All the unwanted space from Entourage database, making it small and compact to copy.
Best Way to Fix Entourage 2008 is not working properly on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan
When your entourage database gets corrupted then it becomes very important to fix the corruption so that the entourage database can be accessed. When any repairing method does not work then you should try some alternative method to repair the corruption issue.
Here you need to use Entourage File Repair Tool, a professional and trusted tool to fix the damaged database file. Such type of tools has the ability to deal with all sorts of corruption issue. Whenever you are unable to fix the data loss situation then you should use this powerful tool.
This is one of the best repair tools which have the ability to fix corrupt and damage Entourage database (RGE) file. Really great software that performs Entourage recovery from Mac only in few minutes. It has an advance feature that scans deeply to the entire hard drive or disk.
It can recover corrupt data which includes contacts, attachments, e-mail messages, notes,calendars, tasks, etc in their original form and that too without any further damage. This tool repairs the entourage database in three easy steps: Scan, Detect and Repair.
It provides a rich graphical user interface that makes the entire repair process easy. It can easily archives the entourage email database to backup the data and to transfers the entourage account completely. The entourage repair tool helps you to repair and restore the damaged database in simple, fast, and in a secure way.
Follow the steps to repair Entourage 2008 is not working
Step 1: Start the Entourage repair Tool software. After that, ‘Select Entourage Database File’ dialog box that displays first by default. Now in the text box, you will find a default location of the database file, is by default selected. Press on ‘Browse‘ option to select database files from any other location.
Step 2: After this, the file will scan itself. After the completion of the scanning process, a summary message box will get displayed. Hit on the ‘Close’ button to close this summary message box.
Step 3: After this has a preview of the repaired Entourage database file before saving, open it in Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair. You will find the default repaired mail which is displayed on the preview window. To have a preview of any mail, hit on the ‘Mail’ button of the Toolbar or go to the ‘View’ menu and click Mail option. You can even select your desired Entourage mailbox folder to see its contents.
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Step 4: Now to save the repaired entourage file at your desired location, click on the File option on the application’s menu bar. Then select the ‘Save Repaired File’ option and after this, you will find the ‘Destination Folder’ dialog box. Select your desired destination for saving the repaired file.
Step 5: At last you will find a saving process dialog box. You can even click on the ‘Stop’ button to stop the file saving process.
Conclusion
Well, so this blog describes how to fix Entourage 2008 is not working properly on Mac. Hope that if you come through such an error on the Entourage database then following the methods will surely help you to get rid of the error.
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For best and reliable solution, use Entourage File Repair Tool to fix any kind of errors. This is easy to use and has the ability to solve Entourage database errors without any hassle.
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Jacob Martin is a technology enthusiast having experience of more than 4 years with great interest in database administration. He is expertise in related subjects like SQL database, Access, Oracle & others. Jacob has Master of Science (M.S) degree from the University of Dallas. He loves to write and provide solutions to people on database repair. Apart from this, he also loves to visit different countries in free time.