Outlook displays incorrect contact entries.

It will go into the Microsoft Database Utility mode where you can rebuild the Identity (Database). Backup (or copy) your Office 2011 identities folder located in “~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 identities/” Press the Option (Alt) key while clicking on Outlook to open it. As soon as i start the app it will come online for less than a minute and then crash. 2 months ago (when i was til using Mavericks) outlook started crashing on start up. I am using Microsoft outlook 2011 as my email client. Some of the signs for damaged Outlook Mac databases are mentioned below. However, there are certain scenarios where Outlook fails to load and can often lead to corrupt or damaged database. These identities contain user mail data including messages, contacts, tasks, calendars, and more. A Mac system with MS Outlook uses the Microsoft User Data folder to store the database file with each identity in its own folder. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is a widely accepted email client for accessing and managing mails. Outlook for Mac stores user OLM file format to store data whereas Outlook for Windows uses PST (.pst) file. Mac and Windows both use Outlook and store user’s data locally. Sometimes, if you are lucky, it may give you something you can use to diagnose further. Also check in Console to see what errors may be reported at the time Outlook is crashing.

Outlook for Mac can tend to crash but you can perform a recovery by holding the alt key when re-launching the app to perform a rebuild of the database.

I suspect the problem is elsewhere, unfortunately.

It's becoming difficult to find powerpoint documents smaller than 10MB these days.

The mails are stored in /Users//Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/ e.g.:Messages paulhargreaves$ pwd /Users/paulhargreaves/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/Data Records/Messages:Messages paulhargreaves$:Messages paulhargreaves$ find.| wc -l 50503 I have lots of mails over 10MB in my mailbox so it is unlikely to be some '10MB' limit.

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