Julia

Thanks Ghostrider - I'll have a look at the links. I do think it's a local copy and not on any server. I will have to double check. Our IT guy is coming in tomorrow to run scans and repairs or something. He says I have a 5% chance of retrieving anything. He says all the mail is stored as data into one folder. But this data has been corrupted now, and because I can't "rebuild it" I most likely won't be able to fix it. I just don't understand - 1 min it's all OK and the next minute I've got an error message and my application is stuffed. Sigh Jules

Ok - well thanks for all your help there. I didn't mean to do the multiple post - please delete one of them if it enrages you that much. Now can you help me with my problem or not? J

I think I have lost all my emails. I have Microsoft Entourage on my company Mac, and today it froze. So I closed the application and reopened it, and it came up with "Entourage can not access your data, to attempt to fix the problem rebuild your database." I tried to rebuild it and it says "rebuild failed error read and write -40. Your database has not been rebuilt and it's unlikley it can be repaired." So tell me - is it all lost? all over? I have lost all my mail and contacts and everything??? This can't be happening. And before you ask about back up - no it was never backed up, it only had the temp folder on my hard drive which doesn't open. Our IT guy did it this way. Can anyone shed some light on what I could do? Thanks, Jules

I think I have lost all my emails. I have Microsoft Entourage on my company Mac, and today it froze. So I closed the application and reopened it, and it came up with "Entourage can not access your data, to attempt to fix the problem rebuild your database." I tried to rebuild it and it says "rebuild failed error read and write -40. Your database has not been rebuilt and it's unlikley it can be repaired." So tell me - is it all lost? all over? I have lost all my mail and contacts and everything??? This can't be happening. And before you ask about back up - no it was never backed up, it only had the temp folder on my hard drive which doesn't open. Our IT guy did it this way. Can anyone shed some light on what I could do? Thanks, Jules

I think I have lost all my emails. I have Microsoft Entourage on my company Mac, and today it froze. So I closed the application and reopened it, and it came up with "Entourage can not access your data, to attempt to fix the problem rebuild your database." I tried to rebuild it and it says "rebuild failed error read and write -40. Your database has not been rebuilt and it's unlikley it can be repaired." So tell me - is it all lost? all over? I have lost all my mail and contacts and everything??? This can't be happening. And before you ask about back up - no it was never backed up, it only had the temp folder on my hard drive which doesn't open. Our IT guy did it this way. Can anyone shed some light on what I could do? Thanks, Jules