Office 2008 rules file corrupt

I received the same "the rules file appears corrupt" error. Thank you. Sorry - I'm new to my Mac.. I did find it under a different folder path.

My problem is solved. I have the same trouble -- Entourage will not open because rules appear corrupted. Followed the advice above, but there was no info about my identity listed underdocuments Office Identities, so nothing to delete. Any other ideas? Diane Ross. Gene Hunt. Close Entourage and other programs running on Mac. Open hard drive. Click on "Documents" folder. Choose "Microsoft User Data" folder.

Hit on "Office Identities" folder, and choose "Mail Identity" folder. Of course, none of that is going to change in Office Microsoft does realize that plenty of Mac users in business and educational institutions need to access Exchange Server, so there are regular refinements to Entourage to improve its support.

The upside to Microsoft using somewhat standard WebDAV for connecting Entourage with Exchange means that alternative clients can also be made to connect to Exchange. Ideally, companies will move to open email servers that don't use proprietary protocols at all. The user interface for Entourage has also modernized above. The program adopts a standard Mac Toolbar, unlike the rest of Office. That means you can customize it using the standard drop down sheet below. An adjustable iCal-like mini calendar appears in the bottom of the sidebar, and under the toolbar sits a strip that looks and works like Safari bookmarks, allowing you to drag in mailbox folders to create quick access links.

The six big icons for email, address book, calendar, notes, tasks, and the Project Center are now smaller, but still work the same way. Rather than displaying your entire Exchange folder or IMAP mailbox as a series of folders in a sidebar as Outlook does, email, contacts, calendar, notes, and tasks all sit behind different pages toggled by clicking one of the buttons.

Selecting a mode also changes the toolbar items for that mode. Conversely, Mac OS X Unlike Outlook, when multiple accounts are configured, Mail presents each mailbox folder grouped by section, so for example the inbox has multiple email folders underneath for each account, and the user can choose to view the mailbox individually or composited together in a unified mailbox.

Entourage sits in between Outlook and Mail; it continues to group each mailbox in a series of folders related by the server they sit on, but extracts each special folder on a separate page so there's more clicking back and forth as you work with different items.

As with previous versions, Entourage presents smart folder mail queries as Mail Views. The new version is also supposed to add improved junk mail filtering and phishing protection by flagging suspicious web links for users. Color categorizing of emails is also featured more prominently than in previous versions. Entourage has always offered HTML mail text formatting features, but it now offers to assign a background image and color as well as an option to insert multimedia elements below.

The only alternative to HTML mail is plain text. There is no equivalent to HTML email templates offered in the new Mail however, and no easy way to create HTML mails that are more than just formatted text with a colored background and attached files. It also lacks any option like Mail to automatically resize attached photos to save space, nor does it have any option to Quick Look incoming attachments or send them to iPhoto.

Entourage does warn you that opening attached files may cause harm and panic, but it did so even on graphics attached to the welcome message, which is particularly painful because Entourage is already displaying the graphics in its inline preview.

If they were likely to exploit a buffer overflow and destroy the system, it's too late to complain after dutifully opening them up and rendering them a preview. Because Entourage stored its mail in a database, it wasn't compatible with Tiger's Spotlight search. Microsoft adjusted the mail store in Entourage to keep a copy of emails as individual files as Mail does in order to enable quick search.

The main email store still lives in a database inside of an Identities folder within Microsoft User Data however. The frustrating problem with this is that in the event of a file corruption, the entire email store is lost. With individual files, a file corruption might only affect one file.

Since Entourage constantly writes to the database file, the chances of its being corrupted are high, and seemingly connected to the amount and critical nature of emails stored in it. The idea of using a database is apparently to provide better performance, but this does not seem to have the intended result in Entourage.

Another drawback to its email database is that it's more difficult to back up and restore, and it isn't efficient to backup with Time Machine or any other file backup system.

Similar to Mail, you can now attach a To Do reminder to an email. In Entourage, you use the To Do flag menu in the Toolbar to select a due date. Once flagged, the email appears in the To Do list. This is different than Mail, which allows you to create multiple, separates tasks that are linked to highlighted content within an email below. If you receive a message outlining multiple objectives, you can make each an independently tracked task. Mail additionally allows you to add due date alarms, priority, and assign a task to a specific calendar.

The new version still won't look up addresses in the standard Address Book, but will sync its contacts with Address Book and. Entourage makes an effort to integrate with Office apps, so if you define your own Me card, Word will use that information to populate some templates. Maintaining its own address book is a holdover from the classic Mac OS where there was no system repository for contacts. On Windows, Office and Outlook can both have their own address books and Windows doesn't offer its own.

While Entourage is designed to accommodate an Exchange Server with an organizational Global Address Book and a user's own Exchange contacts, there's little apparent reason for it to continue to use its own internal contacts. If you don't use Exchange, or don't want to mix your business contacts with a local selection, you can choose to instead sync your local contacts to Address Book and. Prior to Leopard, iCal was so slow that Entourage served as good calendar alternative. Interestingly, the new Entourage calendar below copies a variety of the unique ideas from iCal.

Among them is the ability to simply click and drag to create a new event time and its duration. Previously, Entourage had you double click on a date and then set the time manually. The Entourage calendar lets you color-code events by category, but it does not work with multiple calendars at once as iCal does, or subscribe to or import iCalendar files.

Categories do allow some sorting and presentation features that are similar to having multiple calendars. One advantage Entourage has over iCal is that you can open settings windows below for multiple events at once; the new iCal only presents the details of a single item at once, as a special popup bubble window.

A Toolbar button allows you to view the To Do List above , but its presentation isn't very practical, as the To Do List can't shrink down to less than about three inches wide. Similarly, the sidebar of mailbox folders can't be resized smaller than an couple inches and can't be hidden.

This severely constrains how much you can customize your view to suit your needs. Beyond the Toolbar, the overall look of Entourage feels a bit unfinished, from the heavy presentation of the calendar to the plastic events with a distracting sheen, to the cramped mini calendar and the loose To Do listing that just takes up too much space. The new iCal really packs a lot of information with clarity into a smaller space.

You receive the following error message when you open the corrupted file:. Excel cannot open this file. The file might have been damaged or modified from its original format. This update fixes an issue that causes the following warning to be displayed when you save an Excel workbook:. This update fixes an issue that prevents an. Performance is improved when you create charts.

This update helps improve performance when you create charts from a large dataset. Calendar events are not duplicated in Outlook Web Access or in Outlook This issue occurs when an attendee accepts a changed and updated meeting request in Entourage for Mac. This fix resolves the issue only for newly created or received meetings. You should empty your cache to force re-syncing the cache to resolve the issue for older events. Reliability is improved when you try to securely connect to your mailbox on a computer that is running Exchange Server This update fixes an issue that occurs when you try to securely connect to your mailbox on a computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server after you upgrade to the Office for Mac You receive the following warning message:.

If you continue, the information you view and send will be encrypted, but will not be secure. Text in the message header is displayed correctly. This update fixes an issue that occurs when you receive messages in Japanese in Entourage for Mac, and the text in the message header displays invalid characters in Apple Mail. This update fixes the following Entourage Account Setup Assistant issues:. This requires you to manually edit the account settings and select this option for the LDAP server.

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