How to recover Sent emails after Entourage 2004 corrupt database

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MAC OS X 10.4.11; Entourage 2004 11.4.0

Two days ago, all my saved and sent emails (except for the last 2 or 3 days) disappeared. I believe I had a corrupted database. I imported a rge backup file from a week ago and got all my emails in the "Saved" folder (whew), but that backup did not have the "Sent" folder, so I still do not have all my sent emails.

How to I recover my sent emails either from the rge backup file or some other way [VERY IMPORTANT]?

Is there anyway to recover the week's worth of emails I lost, saved and sent, from the backup to the crash [not as important]?

I'll no longer be using Entourage, so I'm just looking to recover these emails, and possibly import them into Thurderbird. Thanks.
 
I am the first to agree that Entourage sucks. When an .rge archive is corrupted, it is not partially corrupted. If your Sent messages were lost due to corruption, then the messages in your Inbox would also have been lost due to the same corruption. It is quite likely that you never included your Sent messages in the archive.
 
Thanks. Is it possible the database moved somewhere else on the computer between Friday and Monday? Because Friday I had all the sent emails, then Monday I didn't, and I've read elsewhere about that, but confused as how to find it, etc.

I did a rebuild yesterday, but that didn't help. If I had them on Friday, I gotta believe there's some way to recover...
 
For reasons known only to Microsoft, Entourage maintains a single monolithic database. Your Sent Mail will not spontaneously disappear leaving other stuff behind. It sounds like you either didn't archive everything that you intended to archive or that you inadvertently deleted stuff that you did not intend to delete.
 
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