Entourage will not open it says I must rebuild. How can I reopen my account with-out losing my emails

Hi Scott
I am a Mac User also.
Ran my own Mac repair business for 18 years...
I remember this particular problem with Entourage/Outlook for Mac
I stopped using Outlook & Office years ago because it goes corrupt when too many emails are stored in the email data file. About the 1gb file size. A well known problem. I use Apple Mail these days. Note..It will Import emails from Entourage.
All this data is kept in the Microsoft User Data folder inside Documents Folder... if my memory is correct.
Make a backup copy of this folder if you can... before fiddling.
I used a Microsoft Utility Program called "Microsoft Database Utility" to fix and clean up the Email data file. Then Entourage opened up the email again and I got rid of excessive emails containing photos.
I don't even have MS Office installed on this Mac any more but I have located "Microsoft Database Utility" program which is about 2.3mb in size. It's probably inside your MS Office / Office folder already. Use Apple Spotlight to search or... a free program called EasyFind works great.
Open the program and point it to the Microsoft User Data folder where Entourage email data file is located. To locate the actual email data file...Use "Cmd I" to find size of suspect file. The email data file is a Fairly big one.
I am using a 2007 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9 Maverics with the free "Pages" for reading Word Doc's & "Numbers" for Excel SS and it all works seamlessly. Dont have a need or want to pay for MS Office anymore as it never got many updates anyhow.

Hope this Fixes your Problem
Cheers
Trevor

On Side Subject.... Depending on age of your Mac...You can get Maverics OSX10.9 for free. Download the flu .DMG file. Use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software) to do a full Clone Backup of your current Mac HD to another external hard drive before installing new clean OSX 10.9 system then you get asked to Migrate your old system data back and you end up with a new Mac and all your data in place. Get free "MacTracker" to get your specific Mac Specs & what max OS it will go up to.

This would have nothing to do with your router. Check and see if you have another device setup to check email for this account. It may be that another device is checking your email, and then removing it from the server so on the 2nd device it seems to "disappear" Online Virus Removal 39 99 Online Virus Removal and Online PC Help

Making IMAP Account

Well creating an imap account can help you.
You have to simply make imap accounts on both the email clients you use and then you can upload you emails from outlook and then download on the other hand in apple mail.

Other alternative

You can also use the software approach to solve your problem.
Various softwares/applications/third party tools are available online.

One I am aware of is Pst Converter pro.

Hope this helps
thank you

You probably need to start over and open a new account. If you have nothing to reference your old one, they can't reopen it. I know you probably don;t want to lose your familiar ID, but maybe you can come up with something that is close.Do you have any old emails from them that might have the info? Good Luck to you.

If you want to reopen your yahoo account just login to that account and if it is block then the yahoo will suggest you for the reopening of your email. The wizard will be provided and follow it with due care as it will prompt for the emails that you have received are to retained or discarded, the account is you are holding is yours, etc...Just provide the information to that wizard correctly and if this does not solve problem then contact the yahoo assistance through any medium like email from alternative that you carries or telephone conversition convising them that you are holder of that account, etc....

I think you mean adding email address to your account (importing email address), If you've set up the account properly, then there's not much difficultly, just follow the instructions below 1. Open the Address Book application. 2. Choose Import from the File menu. 3. Navigate to the file that you exported from your previous application and select it from the list of files. Tip: if you cannot select the file, the 4. Open button will not pulsate. This may indicate that the file is not in a format that Address Book can read. 5. Click Open. Your addresses (contacts) are now available for use in Address Book and all Mac OS X applications that work with Address Book.
On the other hand if you are importing addresses from previous version, the procedure is little different. Do let me know if you can't do with this. Good luck

I can not open my yahoo email

Not really sure what is wrong but would suggest that you check your account setup under tools/Accounts and see if the setting for advanced settings for receive is set to "This POP service requires a secure connection" is checked or not. It depends on what your ISP requires

I'm sorry no there isn't. Once an account is deleted everything tied to that account is gone. When your account was reopened it was reopened as a new blank account and so had none of the files or emails that it had before.

Hi,

If you already rebuilt the Database and still crashing, that means that your Database(Main Identity) is already corrupted and you need to start a fresh database.

Try deleting the messages in your Webmail if you're using IMAP account. Most likely, that message that was stucked in your deleted items folder is causing the issue.

If you have TimeMachine enabled, restore to the date when Entouarge last worked.