end of my tether with Entourage, pls help my sanity. . .

thanks Diane , I've tried taking the Microsoft Folder out and letting it create a new one and then putting it back, same errors though.

I wonder if I should export to an rge file? and then reimport?

also, re 2008 & pocketmac, looks like they are working on it. in teh meantime, do you think 204 is compatible?

its taken me about a week to get to this point, but I have downgraded Entourage 2008 to 2004 as pocketmac say its compatible with:

Macbook Pro (mine is 2.33ghz Intel Core Duo)
3GB ram
Entourage 2004 (latest version)
Blackberry Bold.

The Entourage 2004 identity is a completely new one, as I thought this would help. And all I have done is import the contacts, calendar and notes etc, from the previous version before. Getting no ENtourage Database error messages, so this should be fine.

It synced the contacts first time round, and they all appear on the Bold.

Then I synced the Calendar second time round.

Then I entered a new diary date on my BlackBerry Bold adn tried syncing again to check it was syncing fine.

And it was hanging for 30 mins, halfway across the bar at Calendar.

One strange thing I notice is this:

there are two drives that come up for the blackberry 1 & 2? is this normal?

Also, if I attempt to force quit, I notice in the "Force Quit Applications" :

IsyncRimCalendar for a while shows up as (not responding) but then after about 10 mins it closing automatically, then 5 mins later, pocketmac finishing. As I said above, this from start to finish is about 30 mins!

So, looking at the Calendar in Entourage, that entry I entered on my blackberry is in there, which is great. but now I have just noticed a load of duplications. Why is this? Gonna try and delete those now by using this script for calendar:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html>

Its still running so will have to wait and see what happens.

I can't run a system System Report, sorry, as it won't produce one, how come this does not work? looked on the desktop, nothing there.

Also, I am hoping that Tasks and notes sync ok.

So, Can you give me advise please:

Why is it taking so long to sync?

"thecount@officeformac.com" wrote:

> thanks Diane , I've tried taking the Microsoft Folder out and letting it
> create a new one and then putting it back, same errors though.
>
> I wonder if I should export to an rge file? and then reimport?
>
> also, re 2008 & pocketmac, looks like they are working on it. in teh meantime,
> do you think 204 is compatible?

Are you talking about Entourage 2004 or 2008?

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Diane

its 2004.

I deleted calendar events from 99 to 2007 to see if that helps and ran that script too after I did that. It seems to do the trick.

then I rebuilt the database, just finished.

Launched 2004, adn it seems fine, but then I have noticed that the same calendar events are in there again!!!!!

So here I go again! what the heck is going on?

I wish there was a simple solution, as there seems to be far too much messing about.