subject: Entourage Repair When You Cannot Add or Edit Contacts in Address Book [print this page] Entourage Repair When You Cannot Add or Edit Contacts in Address Book
Are you unable to edit or save a contact in Microsoft Entourage address book? Do you find missing contacts in Entourage address book when you open Entourage account? Well, this behavior usually indicates database corruption. It may sometimes even make the contact list inaccessible. At this point of time, you need to recover Entourage database using Entourage repair software.
Inability to add or modify contacts in address book is one of the common symptoms of database corruption. Corruption may occur due to a wide range of reasons, which include virus infection, unexpected system shutdown, operating system malfunction, and missing preferences.
Corruption is a state where Microsoft Entourage can not recognize the database and you can not access your significant data from it. All the items, including emails, notes, tasks, contacts, and project become unusable. It causes failure of general operations of the email client.
Resolution
There are two possible fixes that you can try in such situations-
Restore from backup- If you have a valid backup of Entourage database, try restoring it. You can simply import the backup to your account using Import option under File menu.
Rebuild- In case backup is not available, use Database Utility to rebuild the database. You can start this built-in tool by holding down the Option key while starting Entourage application. There must be enough disk space to ensure success of this Entourage recovery process.
Although, rebuild works in a number of corruption scenarios, but it can not effectively handle severe damage. In such cases, Entourage database repair tools come for your rescue.
The third-party Entourage repair software are capable of handling all corruption issues. They recover Entourage database in a safe and easy way with read-only Entourage database recovery conduct and interactive graphical user interface.
