Comments on: Online Business Tragedy: The Loss of My Email, Address Book & Calendar

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:54:21 +0000

I had to reinstall Entourage and am having the same problem. I am going to stop using Entourage for email - It is too unstable anyway when you get a lot of email in it.

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:26:11 +0000

Josh, not difficult at all. In Mozilla Thunderbird and MS Outlook it just takes a couple of mouse clicks when you add your email account into the program.

By: terra

terra — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:49:32 +0000

I definitely feel your pain. ouch.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:54:31 +0000

Hey all . . . thanks for the tips. I’ve been running POP3. How difficult is it to switch to IMAP? Any suggestions?

By: Paul Bradish

Paul Bradish — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:47:43 +0000

Hey Josh,

Were you running IMAP or POP3 on your server?

If POP3 - that is the reason those emails are gone. IMAP should keep them saved on the server, but if you pull them into your email browser of choice via POP3 they are removed from the server.

By: James Klobasa

James Klobasa — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:27:47 +0000

Hey Josh,
Same thing just cost me $1400 to recover the data. I know that
sinking feeling…
Moving along…how’s life…?

JamesRREI

By: Steve's Tech Blog

Steve's Tech Blog — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:48:50 +0000

http://www.weirdkid.com/

I never used them but they may do what you want and convert them to Thunderbird instead.

I used Google to find possible solutions
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=bI9&q=Entourage+email++convert+thunderbird&btnG=Search

You have the files and could see a cheap solution for you

Backup is the weakness point for many of us(me including).

I tell my clients: If you lose your data, would you nibble your fingers?(simple French translation)