I am using Outlook 2011. My identity file is 1.36 gigabytes, but when I open Outlook, it is not showing any of my contacts or emails. Help!
Using Mountain Lion and Office 2011. Went away over Christmas over which time my MacBook Pro had gone into hibernation as the battery level had dropped and I'd left the original power supply in the office. Go a new one today and powered up. Tried to go into Outlook which downloaded the outstanding mail and the posted an error that the database needed rebuilding. This the Database Daemon has steadfastly refused to do. After reading through some of the posts here none seemed to address the exact issue I have because after several attempts to recover as suggested I now had a dialog box permanently up saying the Database needs to be rebuild. Close this dialog down and another will open immediately. Try to rebuild the database and a dialog box will open immediately suggesting that I rebuild the database, and another, and another, and another. I've had up to 7 of these dialog boxes open at one time.
So I restored from the backup in Time Machine to the latest full backup, then recovered all my post, which was OK until all the software updates also came down. On rebooting I'm back where I started - rebuild the database with the dialog box refusing to go away. Closing the Daemon doesn't solve the problem as it restarts itself.
So How can I stop this dialog box, rebuild the database and get on with my life?
Best regards
Rob
Hi everybody,
As the title says I'm experiencing critical problems in restoring my emails and account after a time machine total restore. These are the steps of what happened:
I was experiencing serious problems with OS 10.8.2 after the major update (I really blame Apple for this... recent software updates are a disgrace one more than the other) so I really needed to do a full restore.
My Mac is always totally backed up with Time Machine on an external USB drive, so I felt confident and safe not to lose any of my data.
I performed a total OS reinstall from the Recovery Partition of my Mac. Doing this initialized my HD and reinstalled Mountain Lion from scratches.
At the first boot of the newly installed OS I've opted for a restore form a Time Machine Backup in the Migration Agent options.
When the system booted again after the restore the very first thin that was displayed was a red Outlook Error (coming probably from the sync agent) that was asking me to rebuild my Outlook Database. I accepted to perform the Rebuild and it begun.
The Rebuild proceeded till point 4 of 5 when it interrupts and display the message "Your database could not be rebuilt. [-18000]" and then exits.
After that i launched Outlook and it asked me again to rebuild the Database. The process started once again but it failed in the same way.
I've checked the content of the folder: /users/myuser/documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities and thankfully all my messages and data are still there!! The only thing that is missing is the "database" file that office is unable to rebuild.
Is this a known problem?
There is a known procedure to solve that or any other workaround?
At this time my entire 10 years old database is unusable and this is really a critical problem for me so any kind of help would be much appreciated.
PS Sorry for the very long post but I'm Italian and I have some difficulties expressing myself in concise and short sentences.
Thanks in advance for any answer
Dear all,
as i updated to 10.8.2 suddenly Microsoft Office stopped working with the Database Daemon crashing. This is what i already did:
* Deinstalled Office completely with all library et all files
* Installed Office with latest updates
* Reinstalled 10.8.2
* created new user, same error
Did anyone experience this error? Thank you in advance!
Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0
Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_CRASH (SIGTRAP)
Date/Time: 2012-11-29 09:12:39 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Database Daemon
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.outlook.database_daemon
Application Signature: MDlr
Application Version: 14.0.0.100825
Crashed Module Name: unknown
Crashed Module Version: unknown
Crashed Module Offset: unknown
Blame Module Name: unknown
Blame Module Version: unknown
Blame Module Offset: unknown
Application LCID: 1031
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0407
Crashed thread: 0
Help! I had to rebuild my identity in Outlook for Mac after a problem and now all of my "local" mail is gone. Here are the steps that I went through:
1. I made a copy of Office 2011 Identities folder before taking any steps.
2. I opened the Microsoft Database utility and deleted the existing identities.
3. I created a new "Main Identity".
4. I replaced all of the contents of the new "Data Records" folder with the contents of the "Data Records" folder from the copy I created in step 1. This file has 1.61 GB of data from 11,543 items.
5. I used the Microsoft Database Utility to rebuild my Main identity and create a new database.
Unfortunately, this new database is only 27.3 MB and when I open Outlook, none of my old mail is there. It appears that the rebuild is not pulling in the content of the Data Records Folder.
Please help. I'm dying.
Outlook (Office Mac 2011/v14.2.3) worked fine, until updated Office [on a MBPro/OS X.7.5] -- now Outlook either immediately aborts, or hangs/fails to connect to server ["Not responding"]; Word and Excel both work fine. Rebuilt Microsoft Database (twice!),
rebooted MBPro several times, but no improvement -- Any brilliant suggestions?
Using Outlook 2011 in a Lion environment has recently started to slow with use. Every 3-4 days of heavy Outlook use starts a degradation of speed, nearly a minute response time for scrolling, and other tasks within Outlook. The only solution I have found
is rebuilding the database. Things immediately speed up but ten start to slow in few days. Does anyone have any thoughts on why this is happing and how to stop it?
MacBook Air --- updates are automatic ... Get to the install selected hard drive and then get "must close" these before install can continue. Cannot find Microsoft Database Daemon or SyncServicesAgent to close those --- what am I doing wrong?
Thanks
After a serious database corruption, I've succeeded rebuilding my Outlook identity (with the great help of Diane Ross).
I've moved now tons of messages that were 'On my computer' into folders of an IMAP email account (Hover). However, Outlook doesn't seem to 'sync' folders automatically. It's only when I go into a certain folder and press 'Synchronize now' (by right clicking) that it synchronizes all emails. This is however not feasible, as I've 5000+ folders. Any way to 'force' Outlook to synchronize all messages to make sure they are 'synchronized'/pushed into my IMAP email account?
(I'm receiving new messages in my inbox without any problem).
I've moved now tons of messages that were 'On my computer' into folders of an IMAP email account (Hover). However, Outlook doesn't seem to 'sync' folders automatically. It's only when I go into a certain folder and press 'Synchronize now' (by right clicking) that it synchronizes all emails. This is however not feasible, as I've 5000+ folders. Any way to 'force' Outlook to synchronize all messages to make sure they are 'synchronized'/pushed into my IMAP email account?
(I'm receiving new messages in my inbox without any problem).
Hello,
I use outlook with my iMac and I tried too send a message without realising the size was too much. I deleted the email out of the outbox but for some reason the outbox seems to think it is still there and keeps trying to send it.
I have tried working offline and deleting but there is nothing to delete.
I have tried rebuilding the database but no change.
I have tried creating a new identity on the database and still no change.
Does anybody have any ideas. I am wondering if I need to unistall Ms Outlook and reinstall. I am just worried about my content within it.
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