Entourage is used as the mail client on all the Macs in the office. I came in this morning to be greeted by a question regarding Entourage, and why our designer couldn’t get it to open. It basically said the database was corrupt, and when you click rebuild, it says something about a -40 error whereby it cannot read/write to the disk. After a bit of investigation I found that the original release version of Entourage X had a 2gb limit on said database. Our designers’ machine had reached this magical number, and my boss’ was hovering at 1.94gb. Whats the solution ? Download the update to Office X here and this will give you 4gb. Its taken a fair time for the guys in the office to ‘ding’ at 2gb, but there is a better solution. Close Entourage, now hold down the option key (alt) and relaunch. Rebuild the database. I’ve done this on our third machine and it decreased the database to 170mb from 514mb. Lets see how well it does on the two machines with problems….