HELP !!! Entourage 2004 wiped my emails!

Hi- Got one of those "Microsoft Update" auto messages on my laptop wanting update my Entourage 2004 app. I declined. Then when I launched all my emails, mail accounts, were gone? I looked for; MainIdentity.rge and found only one copy in my "User" folder.
I never ran the "update", I declined it? Now what - everything is missing. Curse you Microsoft.

Mike The Spike wrote:
Now here is a fun fact, there is NO MainIdentity.rge file.
The .rge extension is an Entourage File Archive of the Entourage database created with by a user selecting Export from the File menu. It can contain mail messages, tasks, contacts, notes, calendar events, and project files etc. If you did not make an archive, then you will not find one.
There is a folder "mainidentity" - user/documents/micrcsoftuserdata/office2004identities/mainidentity
That is the correct path to your Entourage Database. Since the contents of that folder is missing, take a look at the following:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#crash15
Within item 15. Identity has disappeared from hard drive, be sure to also click the link User Experiences about finding the database in an invisible folder "lost & found"
If that does not work, then copy the contents from a backup into the Main Identity folder. There should be four files: Database, Mailing Lists, Rules, and Signatures.
HTH

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