Microsoft Entourage gained immense popularity with its launch as part of the MS Office 2011 Office suite. The email client offered email, calendar, address book, task list, note list, and project manager functionalities for Mac OS 8.5 and later. However, issues such as incompatibilities with Outlook reduced its popularity among everyday users who often needed to transfer mailbox data within the two clients. As of 2008, Entourage database and email client’s development was discontinued.

Generally, if an application’s development is discontinued by its manufacturer, its updates and bug fixes aren’t released and its support is also no longer available. Then, if users encounter bugs or problems within the application, there’s limited help available; that too only in the form of reading material. The only solution in such cases comes in the form of third-party tools specifically dedicated to fixing errors within such applications.

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With that thought in mind, in this discussion, we’re focusing on the “Database Daemon Fatal Error” that arises within the Entourage database and offering an optimum solution to fix it.

MS Entourage database throws Daemon Fatal error because of the service processing failure issue. This error message can also appear due to the improper crashing of the Mac. This error message can also appear due to the improper crashing of the Mac.

Microsoft Entourage “Database Daemon Fatal Error”

While working with MS Entourage if a user encounters the Daemon Fatal error, it can lead to service processing failure or even crashing of the Mac. As a result, the user may be barred from accessing vital mailbox data like contacts, emails, notes, etc. Additionally, he may face difficulty while trying to access installed apps and other hard drive files too and it can also negatively impact system performance. As such, resolving the error would be essential.

Before proceeding to the fixes, understanding the causes behind this error is also crucial. This knowledge can help you prevent this error from reoccurring.

Reasons behind the error

• Interrupted hard drive Read/Write operations
• Formatting of the drive on which Entourage system files are stored
• Accidentally deleting Entourage database files
• Sudden termination of the system leading to Entourage file corruption
• Sharing of Entourage file and data on unsupported platforms
• Virus infections

If due to any of the above reasons you face the Daemon Fatal error, worry not. There’s a lot you can do.

Fixes to Repair Entourage Database

To resolve this error you can use one of the below-mentioned methods recommended by Microsoft:

1. Restart Entourage Database Daemon

Restart Entourage Database Daemon as follows:

1. Go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts
2. Open the main account from the navigation pane
3. Click on Login Items or Start up
4. Select all items that start with Microsoft and then click on the minus sign (‘-’)
5. Close the window and restart your Mac

Now launch Entourage to check if the problem persists. If it does, move to fix 2.

2. Deleted Entourage Preferences

Reset Entourage preferences to the default settings as follows:

1. Quit all MS Office applications
2. Click on Home on the Go Menu
3. Go to Library -> Preferences
4. Move or Drag the following files to Trash:

com.microsoft.entourage.database_daemon.plist

com.microsoft.entourage.office_reminders.plist

Note: In MS Office 2004, you’ll need to remove the file named

com.microsoft.OfficeNotifications.plist

If you do not find any of these files, this means your Entourage installation uses the default preferences. In such a case proceed to the next fix.

e. Backup / Restore any other files from the Trash you may want to keep and then empty it.

f. Close Trash window and restart your Mac

Now launch Entourage to check if the problem persists. If it does, move to fix 3.

3. Rename Microsoft User Data Folder

Rename the MS User Data folder as follows:

1. Quit all applications
2. Go to Finder -> Go -> Documents
3. In the window that opens, locate the MS User Data Folder
4. Rename it to something else like Microsoft User Data Folder-OLD
5. Close Documents window Restart your Mac

Now launch Entourage to check if the problem persists. If Entourage starts, that means your Microsoft User Folder is damaged. To fix it you must restore it to its original form by deleting the newly created Microsoft User Data Folder and renaming the Microsoft User Data Folder-OLD to its original name. Thereafter you’ll need to rebuild the identity database as shown in the next fix. If however, Entourage doesn’t start, that means the problem lies elsewhere. In such a case you may skip the next step and proceed with the recommended solution discussed at the last.

4. Backup and Rebuild Entourage Database

Before starting this you must quit all applications and determine if you have enough free space on your hard drive to perform database maintenance. You ideally need three times the size of your identity database. Then, follow these steps:

1. Go to Finder -> Go -> Home -> Documents -> Microsoft User Data folder
2. Open Office <version> Identities folder and then right-click on the Main Identity
3. Select Duplicate and then close all windows
4. Now quit all applications
5. Hold down the Option key on your Mac and launch Entourage. Do not release the Option key until you see the Database Utility window
6. In the Database Utility window, select the database and your Main Identity
7. Click Rebuild Database and then click Continue
8. The next window will show you the rebuild progress. When it completes you will receive a notification
9. Click Done -> Quit

Final Words

For errors as troublesome as the Daemon Fatal Error, we suggest that you follow the manual method efficient database repair and recovery.

Wsdaemon Error On Mac

Microsoft Outlook is the most popular and widely used and accepted E-mail client and an information management application. You get this in both the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. In Mac it is entourage application which serves as an email client which is just like the Outlook in Windows, it is also made by the Microsoft for Mac OS X. In most of the recent version of Microsoft Office for Mac, Outlook is replacement of Entourage, with added features and enhancements. As it has improved database reliability, that minimizes the chances of database corruption. But sometimes you may get errors such as “outlook database daemon fatal error” with the entourage application due to which you will be unable to connect the Outlook properly. You will not able to access even your saved data. The main reason behind this is the excessive startup entry, database corruption, registry errors, virus attack, RAM decline, etc. You may face disastrous data loss after there is a prompt of error. If you get this issue, then you need to make use of the inbuilt disk utility Tool for Mac.

Although the Outlook 2011 for Mac is safer than all the other versions but there are some of the situation in which you may lose your critical information due to database or OLM file corruption. To understand it better here are the scenarios.

• Outlook for Mac application may suddenly get crashed and stops working.
• When you reboot the system and try to open the E-mail client you get the following error: Microsoft Database Daemon cannot be opened because of a problem
• The Outlook gets closed showing the above error message and when you attempt to open the application you get the bouncing Outlook logo in the doc.

Common symptoms of Outlook Database Daemon Fatal Error:

• The processing speed of Mac Outlook gets slow
• The programs or applications gets terminated abruptly
• The data present in Mac gets lost or become inaccessible
• The saved Mac files gets corrupted or damaged
• The installed programs gets crashed or freezed up frequently
• You may even get annoying Error message that starts to prompts on the screen.

Whenever you come across such scenarios you may lose all your valuable data.

Solution:

You can try the below mentioned methods to fix this issue and gain access to your significant data:

• You need to firstly create a new Outlook account and see if the problem is duplicated. It the problem does not affect another accounts then this issues are related to the account preferences. In this case you need to remove the preferences and start the Outlook again.
• You need to rebuild the Outlook Identity with the help of the fixing a number of issues with the help of database.
• Then you need to install the most recent updates of the Office applications. The updates which are provided by the Microsoft solutions for many of such problems.
• You need to restore the database from OLM (Outlook Data File) File that is archive in the database.

In case the OLM file gets corrupted and gets inaccessible then you need to go with OLM Recovery Tool. This tool helps you to resolve all the errors. You can even use the third part OLM repair Tool for recovering the lost data and repair the entire OML file Data. In ensures complete recovery of significant data with the help of advanced recovery techniques.

Steps for using OLM repair tool are shown below:

Step 1: Click ‘Browse’ to select the corrupt/damaged OLM file and start the repairing process by clicking the ‘Start’ button.

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Step 2: The scanning process starts, which is indicated by the ‘Scanning OLM File’ status bar. You can click the ‘Stop’ button to discontinue the process in the middle.

Step 3: After completion of the OLM repair process, the software provides the detailed summary of the entire process which shows the number of recoverable mail objects.

Step 4: : Click on the “mail” icon to preview your recoverable mail in which middle pane shows the mail in the selected mail folder from the left and right pane shows the content from middle pane.

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Step 5: Click the ‘Address Book’ icon to preview your recoverable contacts in which middle pane shows all the contacts in the adress book and right pane shows the details of the selected contact.

Step 6: Click the ‘Calendar’ icon to preview your recoverable Calendar notes in which middle pane shows all the calendar entries and the right pane shows the details of the selected entry.

Step 7: By hitting the ‘Notes’ icon, you can preview your recoverable notes. The middle pane will show all the notes which is available in your mailbox and right pane shows contents of the selected note.

Step 8: Hit the ‘Task’ icon to preview your recoverable tasks in which middle pane will show all the task in the mailbox and right pane will show the content of the selected task.

Step 9: Click on the ‘Save Repaired File’ to save the recovered mail objects. Provide the destination name and the file will be saved by the name-Main identity.rge.