Help Recovering Deleted Messages

[Lynn]

Can someone help me? Yesterday I deleted my old email and compressed it (by
launching Entourage with the option key depressed), but I haven't deleted
the "Old Messages" file that was generated yet. Today I discovered that I
need something that was deleted, and which should be in that "Old Messages"
file. Is there a way for me to recover the email from the "Old Messages"
file? I'm desperate here!

Thanks in advance!

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Lynn,

I believe this will work: With Entourage closed, rename the new Messages
file to something else and rename the Old Messages file back to Messages.
Then reopen Entourage which will now be forced to open the original file.
Retrieve what you need, close Entourage again, rename the original file back
to Old Messages and the newer file back to Messages. Open Entourage, make
sure everything's in order, and then trash the old file so it doesn't bloat
the size of your identity.

Hope this helps.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Check these sites for more help...
Word: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.html>
Entourage: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

On 10/24/02 1:27 PM, in article B9DDCFD4.21C4E%ly...@lynngoldmith.com, "Lynn"

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 10/24/02 1:27 PM, in article B9DDCFD4.21C4E%ly...@lynngoldmith.com, "Lynn"
<ly...@lynngoldmith.com> wrote:

Remove temporarily all these files from your main Identity folder in
Documents/Microsoft User data/Office 2001 Identities/Main Identity (or
whatever you might have renamed it to):

Database
Database Cache
Messages

You must remove all three. Put them on your desktop of any other folder.
Then remove the "Old " prefixes from

Old Database
Old Database Cache
Old Messages

in the same folder, so they have their old names.

Then launch Entourage. Select the email messages you need, (use
command-click and/or shift-click to select several) and drag them to a new
empty Finder folder or your desktop. (Or copy them all to a new Entourage
folder and drag that folder to your desktop.)

Quit Entourage. Go back and type "Old " in front of the three files again,
and then bring the ones without the "Old " back in. Launch Entourage.
(Entourage may be getting confused at this point and may ask you to select
your identity. That's OK.) Drag the saved message files (or MBOX file) from
your desktop or Finder folder into the appropriate Entourage folder(s).

That's it.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
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PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi again, Lynn.

Please see Paul Berkowitz's reply to your post if you haven't already. Mine
was very incomplete.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Check these sites for more help...
Word: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.html>
Entourage: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

On 10/24/02 5:48 PM, in article B9DDE2D6.17F1B%bethro...@earthlink.net,